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    Isaiah · 22 verses

    Isaiah 2

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    Swords become plowshares, while precious idols are flung to moles and bats: Isaiah’s horizon contains both the peaceable workshop and a remarkably determined programme of subterranean disposal.

    The mountain and the toolsvv. 1–5

    Isaiah receives a message concerning Judah and Jerusalem, and the scene opens high above the hills: the mountain of the house of the LORD is established as chief among them, with all nations streaming towards it. Peoples call one another to the house of the God of Jacob, where the law goes forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. The resulting peace is described with practical precision: weapons are not merely abandoned but refashioned for the field, while the LORD judges between nations and arbitrates among peoples.

    Silver, horses, and the unexplained commandvv. 6–9

    The vision turns from the future gathering of nations to the abandoned house of Jacob, whose land is crowded with eastern influences, foreign alliances, silver, gold, horses, chariots, and idols. Human hands have made the objects before which human beings bow, a tidy exchange of makers and worshippers. Then, after mankind is brought low, the passage suddenly says “do not forgive them!” without identifying the speaker or explaining the command.

    The day that lowers everything loftyvv. 10–22

    The Day of the LORD arrives against every sort of elevation: proud looks, cedars, oaks, mountains, hills, towers, walls, ships, and stately vessels. The list is gloriously comprehensive, as though height itself has become liable to arrest. People flee into rocks and holes in the ground, and their silver and gold idols are thrown to moles and bats—an odd little destination amid the shaking earth. At the end, man is reduced to the breath in his nostrils, while the LORD alone is exalted.

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    1. Isa 2:1This is the message that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem:

    2. Isa 2:2In 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.

    3. Isa 2:3And 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.

    4. Isa 2:4Then 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.

    5. Isa 2:5Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.

    6. Isa 2:6For 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.

    7. Isa 2:7Their 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.

    8. Isa 2:8Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.

    9. Isa 2:9So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled—do not forgive them!

    10. Isa 2:10Go into the rocks and hide in the dust from the terror of the LORD and the splendor of His majesty.

    11. Isa 2:11The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

    12. Isa 2:12For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted—it will be humbled—

    13. Isa 2:13against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, against all the oaks of Bashan,

    14. Isa 2:14against all the tall mountains, against all the high hills,

    15. Isa 2:15against every high tower, against every fortified wall,

    16. Isa 2:16against every ship of Tarshish, and against every stately vessel.

    17. Isa 2:17So 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,

    18. Isa 2:18and the idols will vanish completely.

    19. Isa 2:19Men 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.

    20. Isa 2:20In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.

    21. Isa 2:21They 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.

    22. Isa 2:22Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

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    • 2Micah 4:1–3In 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 the peoples will stream to it.
    • 22Jeremiah 17:5This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
    • 4Hosea 2:18On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and battle in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.
    • 4Micah 4:3Then He will judge between many peoples and arbitrate for strong nations far and wide. Then they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor will they train anymore for war.
    • 22Psalms 146:3Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.
    • 2Isaiah 56:7I will bring them to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on My altar, for My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations.”
    • 3Jeremiah 50:4–5“In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God.
    • 3Zechariah 8:20–23This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Peoples will yet come—the residents of many cities—
    • 3Luke 24:47and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.
    • 4Zechariah 9:10And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war will be broken. Then He will proclaim peace to the nations. His dominion will extend from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.
    • 4Isaiah 11:6–9The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.
    • 10Revelation 6:15–16Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
    • 22James 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
    • 3Isaiah 51:4–5Pay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for a law will go out from Me, and My justice will become a light to the nations; I will bring it about quickly.
    • 4Isaiah 60:17–18Instead of bronze I will bring you gold; I will bring silver in place of iron, bronze instead of wood, and iron instead of stones. I will appoint peace as your governor and righteousness as your ruler.
    • 4Psalms 46:9He makes wars to cease throughout the earth; He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the shields in the fire.

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