Chapter 2

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw¹ concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

And it shall come to pass in the last days, [that] the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established¹² in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted¹² above the hills; and all nations shall flow¹ unto it.

And many people shall go¹ and say,¹ Come³ ye, and let us go up⁴ to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach⁵⁵ us of his ways, and we will walk⁴ in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth⁴ the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

And he shall judge¹ among the nations, and shall rebuke⁵² many people: and they shall beat¹⁴ their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up⁴ sword against nation, neither shall they learn⁴ war any more.

O house of Jacob, come³ ye, and let us walk⁴ in the light of the LORD.

Therefore thou hast forsaken¹ thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished¹ from the east, and [are] soothsayers²⁶ like the Philistines, and they please⁵⁵ themselves in the children of strangers.

Their land also is full¹¹ of silver and gold, neither [is there any] end of their treasures; their land is also full¹¹ of horses, neither [is there any] end of their chariots:

Their land also is full¹¹ of idols; they worship¹⁰¹ the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:¹

And the mean man boweth down,¹¹ and the great man humbleth⁴ himself: therefore forgive⁴ them not.

Enter³ into the rock, and hide¹⁰ thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled,¹ and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down,¹ and the LORD alone shall be exalted⁸ in that day.

For the day of the LORD of hosts [shall be] upon every [one that is] proud and lofty,⁶ and upon every [one that is] lifted up;¹² and he shall be brought low:¹

And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, [that are] high⁶ and lifted up,¹² and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

And upon all the high⁶ mountains, and upon all the hills [that are] lifted up,¹²

And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced⁷ wall,

And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.

And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down,¹ and the haughtiness of men shall be made low:¹ and the LORD alone shall be exalted⁸ in that day.

And the idols he shall utterly abolish.⁴

And they shall go¹ into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth² to shake terribly² the earth.

In that day a man shall cast⁵⁵ his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made¹ [each one] for himself to worship,⁹⁹ to the moles ⁶⁵¹² and to the bats;

To go² into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth² to shake terribly² the earth.

Cease³ ye from man, whose breath [is] in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?¹²