Isa 2 | NASB1995 | STEP | The word which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem .

Isaiah 2

God’s Universal Reign

1 The word which ^aIsaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 Now it will come about that
^bIn the last days
The ^cmountain of the house of the Lord
Will be established ^{▼▼ Lit on}as the chief of the mountains,
And will be raised above the hills;
And ^eall the nations will stream to it.
3 And many peoples will 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 ^{▼▼ Or some of}concerning His ways
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For the ^{▼▼ Or instruction}law will go forth ^hfrom Zion
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 And He will judge between the nations,
And will ^{▼▼ Or reprove many}render decisions for many peoples;
And ^jthey will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
^kNation will not lift up sword against nation,
And never again will they learn war.

5 Come, ^lhouse of Jacob, and let us walk in the ^mlight of the Lord.
6 For You have ⁿabandoned Your people, the house of Jacob,
Because they are filled with influences from the east,
And they are soothsayers ^olike the Philistines,
And they ^pstrike bargains with the children of foreigners.
7 Their land has also been filled with silver and gold
And there is no end to their treasures;
Their land has also been filled with ^qhorses
And there is no end to their chariots.
8 Their land has also been ^rfilled with idols;
They worship the ^swork of their hands,
That which their fingers have made.
9 So ^tthe common man has been humbled
And the man of importance has been abased,
But ^udo not forgive them.
10 ^vEnter the rock and hide in the dust
^wFrom the terror of the Lord and from the splendor of His majesty.
11 The ^{▼▼ Lit eyes of the loftiness of men
,} ^yproud look of man will be abased
And the ^zloftiness of man will be humbled,
And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

A Day of Reckoning Coming

12 For the Lord of hosts will have a day of reckoning
Against ^aaeveryone who is proud and lofty
And against everyone who is lifted up,
That he may be abased.
13 And it will be against all the cedars of Lebanon that are lofty and lifted up,
Against all the ^aboaks of Bashan,
14 Against all the ^aclofty mountains,
Against all the hills that are lifted up,
15 Against every ^adhigh tower,
Against every fortified wall,
16 Against all the ^aeships of Tarshish
And against all the beautiful craft.
17 The pride of man will be humbled
And the loftiness of men will be abased;
And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,
18 But the ^afidols will completely vanish.
19 Men will ^aggo into caves of the rocks
And into holes of the ^{▼▼ Lit dust}ground
Before the terror of the Lord
And the splendor of His majesty,
When He arises ^aito make the earth tremble.
20 In that day men will ^ajcast away to the moles and the ^akbats
Their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
Which they made for themselves to worship,
21 In order to ^algo into the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs
Before the terror of the Lord and the splendor of His majesty,
When He arises to make the earth tremble.
22 ^{▼▼ Lit Cease from man
,} ^anStop regarding man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils;
For ^{▼▼ Lit in what
,} ^apwhy should he be esteemed?