Isaiah 2

Berean Standard Bible

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This text records a message revealed to the prophet Isaiah concerning Judah and Jerusalem regarding future and current events. It describes a future time when the mountain of the Lord's house will be established above the hills, drawing nations to stream to it to learn God's ways, leading to the cessation of war as weapons are beaten into agricultural tools. The text then contrasts this with the present state, stating that the Lord has abandoned the house of Jacob because they are filled with eastern influences, foreign alliances, vast wealth, and numerous idols. In response, the Lord declares that the Day of the Lord will come against all human pride, tall trees, mountains, towers, and ships, humbling humanity and causing idols to vanish completely. Consequently, people will flee into caves, rocks, and holes in the ground to hide from the terror of the Lord and the splendor of His majesty when He rises to shake the earth.

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¹This is the message that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem: ²In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it. ³And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. ⁴Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train anymore for war. ⁵Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD. ⁶For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners. ⁷Their land is full of silver and gold, with no limit to their treasures; their land is full of horses, with no limit to their chariots. ⁸Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made. ⁹So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled— do not forgive them! ¹⁰Go into the rocks and hide in the dust from the terror of the LORD and the splendor of His majesty. ¹¹The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day. ¹²For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted— it will be humbled— ¹³against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, against all the oaks of Bashan, ¹⁴against all the tall mountains, against all the high hills, ¹⁵against every high tower, against every fortified wall, ¹⁶against every ship of Tarshish, and against every stately vessel. ¹⁷So the pride of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day, ¹⁸and the idols will vanish completely. ¹⁹Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth. ²⁰In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold— the idols they made to worship. ²¹They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth. ²²Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

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