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==Isaiah 2==

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New International Version (NIV)

The Mountain of the Lord

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

2.  In 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.

3.  Many 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.

4.  He 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.

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

6.  You, 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.

7.  Their 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.

8.  Their land is full of idols;
::they bow down to the work of their hands,
::to what their fingers have made.

9.  So people will be brought low
::and everyone humbled—
::do not forgive them.[a]

10.  Go into the rocks, hide in the ground
::from the fearful presence of the Lord
::and the splendor of his majesty!

11.  The eyes of the arrogant will be humbled
::and human pride brought low;
::the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

12.  The Lord Almighty has a day in store
::for all the proud and lofty,
::for all that is exalted
::(and they will be humbled),

13. for all the cedars of Lebanon, tall and lofty,
::and all the oaks of Bashan,

14. for all the towering mountains
::and all the high hills,

15. for every lofty tower
::and every fortified wall,

16.  for every trading ship
::and every stately vessel.

17. The arrogance of man will be brought low
::and human pride humbled;
::the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,

18.  and the idols will totally disappear.

19. People 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.

20. In that day people will throw away
::to the moles and bats
::their idols of silver and idols of gold,
::which they made to worship.

21.  They 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.

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

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