Isaiah 2 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

The Future House of God

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

²In days to come
    the mountain of the Lord’s house
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
    and shall be raised above the hills;
all the nations shall stream to it.
³    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 instruction,
    and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
⁴He shall judge between the nations,
    and shall arbitrate for many peoples;
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 any more.

Judgment Pronounced on Arrogance

⁵O house of Jacob,
    come, let us walk
    in the light of the Lord!
⁶For you have forsaken the ways of^[a] your people,
    O house of Jacob.
Indeed they are full of diviners^[b] from the east
    and of soothsayers like the Philistines,
    and they clasp hands with foreigners.
⁷Their 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.
⁸Their land is filled with idols;
    they bow down to the work of their hands,
    to what their own fingers have made.
⁹And so people are humbled,
    and everyone is brought low—
    do not forgive them!
¹⁰Enter into the rock,
    and hide in the dust
from the terror of the Lord,
    and from the glory of his majesty.
¹¹The haughty eyes of people shall be brought low,
    and the pride of everyone shall be humbled;
and the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.
¹²For the Lord of hosts has a day
    against all that is proud and lofty,
    against all that is lifted up and high;^[c]
¹³against all the cedars of Lebanon,
    lofty and lifted up;
    and against all the oaks of Bashan;
¹⁴against all the high mountains,
    and against all the lofty hills;
¹⁵against every high tower,
    and against every fortified wall;
¹⁶against all the ships of Tarshish,
    and against all the beautiful craft.^[d]
¹⁷The haughtiness of people shall be humbled,
    and the pride of everyone shall be brought low;
    and the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.
¹⁸The idols shall utterly pass away.
¹⁹Enter the caves of the rocks
    and the holes of the ground,
from the terror of the Lord,
    and from the glory of his majesty,
    when he rises to terrify the earth.
²⁰On that day people will throw away
    to the moles and to the bats
their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
    which they made for themselves to worship,
²¹to enter the caverns of the rocks
    and the clefts in the crags,
from the terror of the Lord,
    and from the glory of his majesty,
    when he rises to terrify the earth.
²²Turn away from mortals,
    who have only breath in their nostrils,
    for of what account are they?

Footnotes

Isaiah 2:6 Heb lacks the ways of
Isaiah 2:6 Cn: Heb lacks of diviners
Isaiah 2:12 Cn Compare Gk: Heb low
Isaiah 2:16 Compare Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain

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