Isaiah 2 New American Standard Bible

God’s Universal Reign

2 The word which ^(A)Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

²Now it will come about that
^(B)In the last days
The ^(C)mountain of the house of the Lord
Will be established ^[a]as the chief of the mountains,
And will be raised above the hills;
And ^(D)all the nations will stream to it.
³And many peoples will come and say,
“Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
So that He may teach us ^[b]about His ways,
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For ^[c]the law will go out ^(E)from Zion
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
⁴And He will judge between the nations,
And will mediate for many peoples;
And ^(F)they will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning knives.
^(G)Nation will not lift up a sword against nation,
And never again will they learn war.

⁵Come, ^(H)house of Jacob, and let’s walk in the ^(I)light of the Lord.
⁶For You have ^(J)abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob,
Because they are filled with influences from the east,
And they are soothsayers ^(K)like the Philistines.
They also ^[d]^(L)strike bargains with the children of foreigners.
⁷Their land has also been filled with silver and gold
And there is no end to their treasures;
Their land has also been filled with ^(M)horses,
And there is no end to their chariots.
⁸Their land has also been ^(N)filled with idols;
They worship the ^(O)work of their hands,
That which their fingers have made.
⁹So ^(P)the common person has been humbled
And the person of importance has been brought low,
But ^(Q)do not forgive them.
¹⁰^(R)Enter the rocky place and hide in the dust
^(S)From the terror of the Lord and from the splendor of His majesty.
¹¹The ^[e]^(T)proud look of humanity will be brought low,
And the ^(U)arrogance of people will be humbled;
And the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

A Day of Reckoning Coming

¹²For the Lord of armies will have a day of reckoning
Against ^(V)everyone who is arrogant and haughty,
And against everyone who is lifted up,
That he may be brought low.
¹³And it will be against all the cedars of Lebanon that are lofty and lifted up,
Against all the ^(W)oaks of Bashan,
¹⁴Against all the ^(X)lofty mountains,
Against all the hills that are lifted up,
¹⁵Against every ^(Y)high tower,
Against every fortified wall,
¹⁶Against all the ^(Z)ships of Tarshish
And against all the delightful ships.
¹⁷And the pride of humanity will be humbled
And the arrogance of people will be brought low;
And the Lord alone will be exalted on that day,
¹⁸And the ^(AA)idols will completely vanish.
¹⁹People will ^(AB)go into caves of the rocks
And into holes in the ^[f]ground
Away from the terror of the Lord
And the splendor of His majesty,
When He arises ^(AC)to terrify the earth.
²⁰On that day people will ^(AD)throw away to the moles and the ^(AE)bats
Their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
Which they made for themselves to worship,
²¹In order to ^(AF)go into the clefts of the rocks and the crannies of the cliffs
Before the terror of the Lord and the splendor of His majesty,
When He arises to terrify the earth.
²²^[g]^(AG)Take no account of man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils;
For ^[h]^(AH)why should he be esteemed?