1 The word that Isaiah son of Amoz saw about Judah and Jerusalem.
2 In the last days the mountain of the LORD's house will stand firm at the top of the mountains and be raised higher than the hills, and all the nations will stream toward it.
3 Many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us climb the mountain of the LORD, to the house of Jacob's God, so that he may teach us from his ways and we may walk in his paths." For the law will go out from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 He will judge between the nations and settle matters for many peoples. They will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning knives; nation will not raise a sword against nation, and they will no longer train for war.
5 House of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the LORD.
6 Indeed, you have cast off your people, the house of Jacob, for they are filled with what comes from the east, with soothsayers like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with the offspring of foreigners.
7 Their land has been filled with silver and gold, and their treasures are endless; their land has been filled with horses, and their chariots are endless too.
8 Their land is full of worthless idols; they bow down before what their hands have made, before the things their fingers fashioned.
9 So people are bowed down and each man is brought low; do not pardon them!
10 Go into the rock, hide yourself in the dust, away from the dread of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty.
11 Proud human eyes will be lowered, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and on that day the LORD alone will be lifted high.
12 For the LORD of hosts has a day in store against everything proud and towering, against everything raised up, and it will be laid low;
13 against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and towering, and against all the oaks of Bashan;
14 against all the high mountains and against all the uplifted hills;
15 against every tall tower and every fortified wall;
16 against all the ships of Tarshish and against all the delightful vessels.
17 Human haughtiness will be bowed down and the pride of men laid low, and on that day the LORD alone will be lifted high.
18 As for the idols, they will vanish completely.
19 People will go into caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the dread of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty, when he arises to make the earth shudder.
20 On that day people will fling their silver idols and their gold idols, which they made to bow down to, to the burrowing moles and to the bats,
21 so as to go into the crevices of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs, away from the dread of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty, when he arises to make the earth shudder.
22 Have done with man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for what is he worth?