Isaiah 2 Common English Bible

The Lord’s mountain

2 This is what Isaiah, Amoz’s son, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

²In the days to come
    the mountain of the Lord’s house
    will be the highest of the mountains.
    It will be lifted above the hills;
        peoples will stream to it.
³Many nations will go and say,
“Come, let’s go up to the Lord’s mountain,
    to the house of Jacob’s God
        so that he may teach us his ways
        and we may walk in God’s paths.”
Instruction will come from Zion;
    the Lord’s word from Jerusalem.
⁴God will judge between the nations,
    and settle disputes of mighty nations.
Then they will beat their swords into iron plows
    and their spears into pruning tools.
Nation will not take up sword against nation;
    they will no longer learn how to make war.

⁵Come, house of Jacob,
let’s walk by the Lord’s light.

Everyone is brought low

⁶You have abandoned your people,
        house of Jacob.
    They are full of sorcerers from the east and fortune-tellers like the Philistines;
        they hold hands with foreigners’ children.^[a]
⁷Their land is full of silver and gold;
    they have countless treasures.
Their land is filled with horses;
    they have countless chariots.
⁸Their land is filled with idols;
    they worship their handiwork,
    what their own fingers have made.

⁹Humanity will be brought down;
    each person laid low—don’t lift them up!^[b]
¹⁰Go into the rocks,
    and hide yourself in the dust from the terror of the Lord,
    from the splendor of God’s majesty!
¹¹People’s proud gazing will be stopped
    and humanity’s arrogance brought down;
    the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

¹²The Lord of heavenly forces has planned a day:
    against all that is prideful and haughty;
    against all that is lofty, and it will be laid low;^[c]
¹³    against all the cedars of Lebanon, high and lofty;
    against all the oaks of Bashan;
¹⁴    against all the high mountains;
    against all the lofty hills;
¹⁵    against every tall tower;
    against every fortified wall;
¹⁶    against all the ships of Tarshish;
    against all the wonderful boats.^[d]
¹⁷People’s pride will be brought down
    and human arrogance humiliated.
The Lord alone will be exalted on that day;
¹⁸    the idols will completely pass away.

¹⁹Go into caves in the rocks
    and holes in the dust
        before the terror of the Lord
        and the splendor of God’s majesty,
        when he arises to terrify the earth.
²⁰On that day, people will toss
        to the rodents^[e] and to the bats
    their idols of silver and idols of gold,
        which they made for themselves to worship.
²¹They will hide in fissures of rocks and in crevices of cliffs
    before the terror of the Lord
    and the splendor of God’s majesty
    when he arises to terrify the earth.