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Isaiah 2 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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The Mountain of the Lord

(Mic 4:1–5 )
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:1 - The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:2 - 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,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:3 - 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,[fn]
and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:4 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:5 - O house of Jacob,
come, let us walk
in the light of the LORD.

The Day of the Lord

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:6 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:7 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:8 - Their land is filled with idols;
they bow down to the work of their hands,
to what their own fingers have made.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:9 - So man is humbled,
and each one is brought low—
do not forgive them!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:10 - Enter into the rock
and hide in the dust
from before the terror of the LORD,
and from the splendor of his majesty.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:11 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:12 - 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;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:13 - against all the cedars of Lebanon,
lofty and lifted up;
and against all the oaks of Bashan;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:14 - against all the lofty mountains,
and against all the uplifted hills;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:15 - against every high tower,
and against every fortified wall;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:16 - against all the ships of Tarshish,
and against all the beautiful craft.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:17 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:18 - And the idols shall utterly pass away.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:19 - And people shall enter the caves of the rocks
and the holes of the ground,[fn]
from before the terror of the LORD,
and from the splendor of his majesty,
when he rises to terrify the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:20 - 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,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:21 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:22 - Stop regarding man
in whose nostrils is breath,
for of what account is he?
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