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The Future House of God

¹The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
²Now ⚓it shall come to pass ⚓in the latter days
⚓That the mountain of the Lord’s house
Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills;
And all nations shall flow to it.
³Many people shall come and say,
⚓“Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
He will teach us His ways,
And we shall walk in His paths.”
⚓For out of Zion shall go forth the law,
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
⁴He shall judge between the nations,
And rebuke many people;
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.

The Day of the Lord

⁵O house of Jacob, come and let us ⚓walk
In the light of the Lord.
⁶For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob,
Because they are filled ⚓with eastern ways;
They are⚓soothsayers like the Philistines,
⚓And they are pleased with the children of foreigners.
⁷⚓Their land is also full of silver and gold,
And there is no end to their treasures;
Their land is also full of horses,
And there is no end to their chariots.
⁸⚓Their land is also full of idols;
They worship the work of their own hands,
That which their own fingers have made.
⁹People bow down,
And each man humbles himself;
Therefore do not forgive them.
¹⁰⚓Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust,
From the terror of the Lord
And the glory of His majesty.
¹¹The lofty looks of man shall be ⚓humbled,
The haughtiness of men shall be bowed down,
And the Lord alone shall be exalted ⚓in that day.
¹²For the day of the Lord of hosts
Shall come upon everything proud and lofty,
Upon everything lifted up—
And it shall be brought low—
¹³Upon all ⚓the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up,
And upon all the oaks of Bashan;
¹⁴⚓Upon all the high mountains,
And upon all the hills that are lifted up;
¹⁵Upon every high tower,
And upon every fortified wall;
¹⁶⚓Upon all the ships of Tarshish,
And upon all the beautiful sloops.
¹⁷The loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low;
The Lord alone will be exalted in that day,
¹⁸But the idols He shall utterly abolish.
¹⁹They shall go into the ⚓holes of the rocks,
And into the caves of the earth,
⚓From the terror of the Lord
And the glory of His majesty,
When He arises ⚓to shake the earth mightily.
²⁰In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver
And his idols of gold,
Which they made, each for himself to worship,
To the moles and bats,
²¹To go into the clefts of the rocks,
And into the crags of the rugged rocks,
From the terror of the Lord
And the glory of His majesty,
When He arises to shake the earth mightily.
²²⚓Sever yourselves from such a man,
Whose ⚓breath is in his nostrils;
For of what account is he?

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The Mountain of the Lord

¹This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:
²In the last days
the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established
as the highest of the mountains;
it will be exalted above the hills,
and all nations will stream to it.
³Many peoples will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the temple of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us his ways,
so that we may walk in his paths.”
The law will go out from Zion,
the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
⁴He will judge between the nations
and will settle disputes for many peoples.
They will beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation,
nor will they train for war anymore.

⁵Come, descendants of Jacob,
let us walk in the light of the Lord.

The Day of the Lord

⁶You, Lord, have abandoned your people,
the descendants of Jacob.
They are full of superstitions from the East;
they practice divination like the Philistines
and embrace pagan customs.
⁷Their land is full of silver and gold;
there is no end to their treasures.
Their land is full of horses;
there is no end to their chariots.
⁸Their land is full of idols;
they bow down to the work of their hands,
to what their fingers have made.
⁹So people will be brought low
and everyone humbled—
do not forgive them.⚓

¹⁰Go into the rocks, hide in the ground
from the fearful presence of the Lord
and the splendor of his majesty!
¹¹The eyes of the arrogant will be humbled
and human pride brought low;
the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

¹²The Lord Almighty has a day in store
for all the proud and lofty,
for all that is exalted
(and they will be humbled),
¹³for all the cedars of Lebanon, tall and lofty,
and all the oaks of Bashan,
¹⁴for all the towering mountains
and all the high hills,
¹⁵for every lofty tower
and every fortified wall,
¹⁶for every trading ship⚓
and every stately vessel.
¹⁷The arrogance of man will be brought low
and human pride humbled;
the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,
¹⁸and the idols will totally disappear.

¹⁹People will flee to caves in the rocks
and to holes in the ground
from the fearful presence of the Lord
and the splendor of his majesty,
when he rises to shake the earth.
²⁰In that day people will throw away
to the moles and bats
their idols of silver and idols of gold,
which they made to worship.
²¹They will flee to caverns in the rocks
and to the overhanging crags
from the fearful presence of the Lord
and the splendor of his majesty,
when he rises to shake the earth.

²²Stop trusting in mere humans,
who have but a breath in their nostrils.
Why hold them in esteem?