1 God’s Universal Reign The word [from God] which Isaiah son of Amoz saw [in a vision] concerning [the nation of] Judah and [its capital city] Jerusalem.
2 Now it will come to pass thatIn the last daysThe mountain of the house of the LWill be [firmly] established as theOr chief; lit head.highest of the mountains,And will be exalted above the hills;And all the nations will stream to it.
3 And many peoples shall come and say,“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the L,To the house (temple) of the God of Jacob;That He may teach us His waysAnd that we may walk in His paths.”For the law will go out from ZionAnd the word of the Lfrom Jerusalem.
4 And He will judge between the nations,And will mediate [disputes] for many peoples;And they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.Nation will not lift up the sword against nation,And never again will they learn war.
5 O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the L.
6 Most certainly [L] You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob,Because they are filledwith influencesfrom the east,And they are soothsayers [who foretell] like the Philistines;Also they strikebargainswith the children of foreigners (pagans).
7 Their land has also been filled with silver and goldAnd there is no end to their treasures;Their land has also been filled with horsesAnd there is no end to their chariots.
8 Their land has also been filled with idols;They worship the work of their hands,That which their own fingers have made.
9 So thecommonman has been humbled [before idols]And the manof importancehas been degraded,Therefore do not forgive them [O L].
10 Go among the rocks and hide in the dustFrom the terror of the Land from the splendor of His majesty.
11 The proud look of man will be degradedAnd the arrogance of men will be humbled,And the Lalone will be exalted in that day.
12 A Day of Reckoning Coming For the Lof hosts will have a dayof reckoningAgainst all who are proud and arrogantAnd against all who are lifted up,That they may be degraded.
13 And the wrath of God will be against all the cedars of Lebanon [west of the Jordan] that are high and lifted up,Against all the oaks of Bashan [east of the Jordan],
14 Against all the high mountains,Against all the hills that are lifted up,
15 Against every high tower,Against every fortified wall,
16 Against all the ships of TarshishAnd against all the beautiful craft.
17 Then the pride of man will be humbledAnd the arrogance of men will be degraded;The Lalone shall be exalted in that day,
18 And the idols will completely vanish (be abolished).
19 They [the stricken, deprived of all in which they had trusted] will go into the caves of the rocksAnd into the holes of the ground [fleeing]From the terroranddread of the LAnd from the splendor of His majesty,When He arises to terrify the earth.
20 In that day men will throw away to the moles and to the batsTheir idols of silver and their idols of gold,Which they made for themselves [as objects] to worship,
21 To go into the caverns of the rocks and into the clefts of the [ragged] cliffs [as they flee]From the terroranddread of the Land the splendor of His majesty,When He arises to terrify the earth.
22 Stop regarding man, whose breath [of life] is in his nostrils [for so little time];For why should he be esteemed?