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God’s Universal Reign
1The word which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2Now it will come about that
In the last days
The mountain of the house of the Lord
Will be established Lit onas the chief of the mountains,
And will be raised above the hills;
And all the nations will stream to it.
3And many peoples will come and say,
“Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
So that He may teach us Or some ofabout His ways,
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For Or instructionthe law will go out from Zion
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4And He will judge between the nations,
And will mediate for many peoples;
And they will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning knives.
Nation will not lift up a sword against nation,
And never again will they learn war.
5Come, house of Jacob, and let’s walk in the light of the Lord.
6For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob,
Because they are filled with influences from the east,
And they are soothsayers like the Philistines.
They also Lit clap their handsstrike bargains with the children of foreigners.
7Their land has also been filled with silver and gold
And there is no end to their treasures;
Their land has also been filled with horses,
And there is no end to their chariots.
8Their land has also been filled with idols;
They worship the work of their hands,
That which their fingers have made.
9So the common person has been humbled
And the person of importance has been brought low,
But do not forgive them.
10Enter the rocky place and hide in the dust
From the terror of the Lord and from the splendor of His majesty.
11The Lit eyes of the pride of manproud look of humanity will be brought low,
And the arrogance of people will be humbled;
And the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.
A Day of Reckoning Coming
12For the Lord of armies will have a day of reckoning
Against everyone who is arrogant and haughty,
And against everyone who is lifted up,
That he may be brought low.
13And it will be against all the cedars of Lebanon that are lofty and lifted up,
Against all the oaks of Bashan,
14Against all the lofty mountains,
Against all the hills that are lifted up,
15Against every high tower,
Against every fortified wall,
16Against all the ships of Tarshish
And against all the delightful ships.
17And the pride of humanity will be humbled
And the arrogance of people will be brought low;
And the Lord alone will be exalted on that day,
18And the idols will completely vanish.
19 People will go into caves of the rocks
And into holes in the Lit dustground
Away from the terror of the Lord
And the splendor of His majesty,
When He arises to terrify the earth.
20On that day people will throw away to the moles and the bats
Their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
Which they made for themselves to worship,
21In order to go into the clefts of the rocks and the crannies of the cliffs
Before the terror of the Lord and the splendor of His majesty,
When He arises to terrify the earth.
22 Or Stop caring about Take no account of man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils;
For Lit in whatwhy should he be esteemed?