¹This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem .

²It shall happen in the latter days , that the mountain of the LORD ’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains ,

and shall be raised above the hills ;

and all nations shall flow to it .

³Many peoples shall go and say ,

“Come , let ’s go up to the mountain of the LORD ,

to the house of the God of Jacob ;

and he will teach us of his ways ,

and we will walk in his paths .”

For the law shall go out of Zion ,

and the LORD ’s word from Jerusalem .

⁴He will judge between the nations ,

and will decide concerning many peoples .

They shall beat their swords into ploughshares,

and their spears into pruning hooks .

Nation shall not lift up sword against nation ,

neither shall they learn war any more .

⁵House of Jacob , come , and let ’s walk in the light of the LORD .

⁶For you have forsaken your people , the house of Jacob ,

because they are filled from the east ,

with those who practise divination like the Philistines ,

and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners .

⁷Their land is full of silver and gold ,

neither is there any end of their treasures.

Their land also is full of horses ,

neither is there any end of their chariots .

⁸Their land also is full of idols.

They worship the work of their own hands ,

that which their own fingers have made .

⁹Man is brought low ,

and mankind is humbled ;

therefore don’t forgive them .

¹⁰Enter into the rock ,

and hide in the dust ,

from before the terror of the LORD ,

and from the glory of his majesty .

¹¹The lofty looks of man will be brought low ,

the arrogance of men will be bowed down ,

and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day .

¹²For there will be a day of the LORD of Armies for all that is proud and arrogant,

and for all that is lifted up ,

and it shall be brought low —

¹³for all the cedars of Lebanon , that are high and lifted up ,

for all the oaks of Bashan ,

¹⁴for all the high mountains ,

for all the hills that are lifted up ,

¹⁵for every lofty tower ,

for every fortified wall ,

¹⁶for all the ships of Tarshish ,

and for all pleasant imagery.

¹⁷The loftiness of man shall be bowed down ,

and the arrogance of men shall be brought low ;

and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day .

¹⁸The idols shall utterly pass away .

¹⁹Men shall go into the caves of the rocks ,

and into the holes of the earth ,

from before the terror of the LORD ,

and from the glory of his majesty ,

when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

²⁰In that day , men shall cast away their idols of silver

and their idols of gold ,

which have been made for themselves to worship ,

to the moles and to the bats ,

²¹to go into the caverns of the rocks ,

and into the clefts of the ragged rocks ,

from before the terror of the LORD ,

and from the glory of his majesty ,

when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

²²Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils;

for of what account is he ?