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The Mountain of the Lord

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

The LORD’s Future Reign

This is a vision that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:

It shall come to pass in the latter days
that the 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 all the nations shall flow to it,

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In the last days, the mountain of the LORD’s house
will be the highest of all —
the most important place on earth.
It will be raised above the other hills,
and people from all over the world will stream there to worship.

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and many 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 out of Zion shall go forth the law,a
and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

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People from many nations will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
to the house of Jacob’s God.
There he will teach us his ways,
and we will walk in his paths.”
For the LORD’s teaching will go out from Zion;
his word will go out from Jerusalem.

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He shall judge between the nations,
and shall decide disputes for many peoples;
and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war anymore.

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The LORD will mediate between nations
and will settle international disputes.
They will hammer their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will no longer fight against nation,
nor train for war anymore.
A Warning of Judgment

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O house of Jacob,
come, let us walk
in the light of the Lord.

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Come, descendants of Jacob,
let us walk in the light of the LORD!

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The Day of the Lord

For you have rejected your people,
the house of Jacob,
because they are full of things from the east
and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines,
and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

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For the LORD has rejected his people,
the descendants of Jacob,
because they have filled their land with practices from the East
and with sorcerers, as the Philistines do.
They have made alliances with pagans.

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Their land is filled with silver and gold,
and there is no end to their treasures;
their land is filled with horses,
and there is no end to their chariots.

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Israel is full of silver and gold;
there is no end to its treasures.
Their land is full of warhorses;
there is no end to its chariots.

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Their land is filled with idols;
they bow down to the work of their hands,
to what their own fingers have made.

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Their land is full of idols;
the people worship things they have made
with their own hands.

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So man is humbled,
and each one is brought low —
do not forgive them!

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So now they will be humbled,
and all will be brought low —
do not forgive them.

10

Enter into the rock
and hide in the dust
from before the terror of the Lord,
and from the splendor of his majesty.

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Crawl into caves in the rocks.
Hide in the dust
from the terror of the LORD
and the glory of his majesty.

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The 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.

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Human pride will be brought down,
and human arrogance will be humbled.
Only the LORD will be exalted
on that day of judgment.

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For 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;

12

For the LORD of Heaven’s Armies
has a day of reckoning.
He will punish the proud and mighty
and bring down everything that is exalted.

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against all the cedars of Lebanon,
lofty and lifted up;
and against all the oaks of Bashan;

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He will cut down the tall cedars of Lebanon
and all the mighty oaks of Bashan.

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against all the lofty mountains,
and against all the uplifted hills;

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He will level all the high mountains
and all the lofty hills.

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against every high tower,
and against every fortified wall;

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He will break down every high tower
and every fortified wall.

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against all the ships of Tarshish,
and against all the beautiful craft.

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He will destroy all the great trading shipsa
and every magnificent vessel.

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And 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.

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Human pride will be humbled,
and human arrogance will be brought down.
Only the LORD will be exalted
on that day of judgment.

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And the idols shall utterly pass away.

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Idols will completely disappear.

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And people shall enter the caves of the rocks
and the holes of the ground,b
from before the terror of the Lord,
and from the splendor of his majesty,
when he rises to terrify the earth.

19

When the LORD rises to shake the earth,
his enemies will crawl into holes in the ground.
They will hide in caves in the rocks
from the terror of the LORD
and the glory of his majesty.

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In that day mankind 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 bats,

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On that day of judgment they will abandon the gold and silver idols
they made for themselves to worship.
They will leave their gods to the rodents and bats,

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to 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,
when he rises to terrify the earth.

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while they crawl away into caverns
and hide among the jagged rocks in the cliffs.
They will try to escape the terror of the LORD
and the glory of his majesty
as he rises to shake the earth.

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Stop regarding man
in whose nostrils is breath,
for of what account is he?

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Don’t put your trust in mere humans.
They are as frail as breath.
What good are they?

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Isaiah 2

Isaiah 2