Isaiah 2 (NET)

Isaiah 2:1¹Here is the message about Judah and Jerusalem that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 2:2²In future days the mountain of the Lord ’s temple will endure as the most important of mountains, and will be the most prominent of hills. All the nations will stream to it;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 2:3³many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the Lord ’s mountain, to the temple of the God of Jacob, so he can teach us his requirements, and we can follow his standards.” For Zion will be the center for moral instruction; the Lord ’s message will issue from Jerusalem.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 2:4⁴He will judge disputes between nations; he will settle cases for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations will not take up the sword against other nations, and they will no longer train for war.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 2:5⁵O descendants of Jacob, come, let us walk in the Lord ’s guiding light.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 2:6⁶Indeed, O Lord, you have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. For diviners from the east are everywhere; they consult omen readers like the Philistines do. Plenty of foreigners are around.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 2:7⁷Their land is full of gold and silver; there is no end to their wealth. Their land is full of horses; there is no end to their chariots.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 2:8⁸Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the product of their own hands, what their own fingers have fashioned.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 2:9⁹Men bow down to them in homage, they lie flat on the ground in worship. Don’t spare them!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 2:10¹⁰Go up into the rocky cliffs, hide in the ground. Get away from the dreadful judgment of the Lord, from his royal splendor!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 2:11¹¹Proud men will be brought low, arrogant men will be humiliated; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 2:12¹²Indeed, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has planned a day of judgment, for all the high and mighty, for all who are proud—they will be humiliated;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 2:13¹³for all the cedars of Lebanon, that are so high and mighty, for all the oaks of Bashan;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 2:14¹⁴for all the tall mountains, for all the high hills,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 2:15¹⁵for every high tower, for every fortified wall,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 2:16¹⁶for all the large ships, for all the impressive ships.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 2:17¹⁷Proud men will be humiliated, arrogant men will be brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 2:18¹⁸The worthless idols will be completely eliminated.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 2:19¹⁹They will go into caves in the rocky cliffs and into holes in the ground, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the Lord and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 2:20²⁰At that time men will throw their silver and gold idols, which they made for themselves to worship, into the caves where rodents and bats live,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 2:21²¹so they themselves can go into the crevices of the rocky cliffs and the openings under the rocky overhangs, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the Lord and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Isaiah 2:22²²Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s