CHAPTER 2
In the last
days
the mountain
of the house
of the LORD
will be
established
as the chief
of the mountains;
it will be raised
above the hills,
and all
nations
will stream
to it.
And many
peoples
will come
and say,
“Come,
let us go up
to
the mountain
of the LORD,
to
the house
of the God
of Jacob.
He will teach us
His ways
so that we may walk
in His paths.”
For
the law
will go forth
from Zion,
and the word
of the LORD
from Jerusalem.
Then He will judge
between
the nations
and arbitrate
for many
peoples.
They will beat
their swords
into plowshares
and their spears
into pruning hooks.
Nation
will no longer
take up
the sword
against
nation,
nor
train
anymore
for war.
For
You have abandoned
Your people,
the house
of Jacob,
because
they are filled
with influences from the east;
they are soothsayers
like the Philistines;
they strike hands
with the children
of foreigners.
Their land
is full of
silver
and gold,
with no
limit
to their treasures;
their land
is full of
horses,
with no
limit
to their chariots.
Their land
is full of
idols;
they bow down
to the work
of their hands,
to what
their fingers
have made.
Go
into the rocks
and hide
in the dust
from
the terror
of the LORD
and the splendor
of His majesty.
The proud
look
of man
will be humbled,
and the loftiness
of men
brought low;
the LORD
alone
will be exalted
in that
day.
For
the Day
of the LORD
of Hosts
will come against
all
the proud
and lofty,
against
all
that is exalted—
it will be humbled—
So the pride
of man
will be brought low,
and the loftiness
of men
will be humbled;
the LORD
alone
will be exalted
in that
day,
Men will flee
to caves
in the rocks
and holes
in the ground,
away from
the terror
of the LORD
and from the splendor
of His majesty,
when He rises
to shake
the earth.
In that
day
men
will cast away
their idols
of silver
and
gold—
the idols
they made
to worship—
away to the moles
and bats.
They will flee
to caverns
in the rocks
and crevices
in the cliffs,
away from
the terror
of the LORD
and from the splendor
of His majesty,
when He rises
to shake
the earth.