The Mountain of the Lord
The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 aIt shall come to pass in the latter days
that bthe mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
and shall be lifted up above the hills;
and call the nations shall flow to it,
3 and amany peoples shall come, and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
and that we may walk in his paths.”
For bout of Zion shall go forth the law,
and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 He shall judge between the nations,
and shall decide disputes for many peoples;
aand they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks;
bnation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war anymore.
5 O house of Jacob,
come, let us walk
in athe light of the Lord.
The Day of the Lord
6 For you have rejected your people,
the house of Jacob,
because they are full of things afrom the east
and bof fortune‑tellers clike the Philistines,
and they dstrike hands with the children of foreigners.
7 Their land is afilled with silver and gold,
and there is no end to their treasures;
their land is bfilled with horses,
and there is no end to their chariots.
8 Their land is afilled with idols;
they bow down to bthe work of their hands,
to what their own fingers have made.
9 So man ais humbled,
and each one ais brought low—
do not forgive them!
10 aEnter into the rock
and hide in the dust
bfrom before the terror of the Lord,
and from the splendor of his majesty.
11 aThe haughty looks of man shall be brought low,
and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled,
and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
12 aFor the Lord of hosts has a day
against all that is proud and lofty,
against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low;
13 against all the acedars of Lebanon,
lofty and lifted up;
and against all the boaks of Bashan;
14 against all athe lofty mountains,
and against all the uplifted hills;
15 against every high tower,
and against every fortified wall;
16 against all athe ships of Tarshish,
and against all the beautiful craft.
17 aAnd the haughtiness of man shall be humbled,
and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low,
and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
18 aAnd the idols shall utterly pass away.
19 aAnd people shall enter the caves of the rocks
and the holes of the ground,
from before the terror of the Lord,
and from the splendor of his majesty,
bwhen he rises to terrify the earth.
20 In that day amankind will cast away
their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
which they made for themselves to worship,
to the moles and to the bbats,
21 ato enter the caverns of the rocks
and the clefts of the cliffs,
from before the terror of the Lord,
and from the splendor of his majesty,
bwhen he rises to terrify the earth.
22 aStop regarding man
bin whose nostrils is breath,
for of what account is he?