Isaiah (Douay: Isaias) 2

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

² It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.

³ Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law shall go out of Zion, and the LORD’s word from Jerusalem.

⁴ He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

⁵ House of Jacob, come, and let’s walk in the light of the LORD.

⁶ For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, with those who practice divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.

⁷ Their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures. Their land also is full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots.

⁸ Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.

⁹ Man is brought low, and mankind is humbled; therefore don’t forgive them.

¹⁰ Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty.

¹¹ The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

¹² For there will be a day of the LORD of Armies for all that is proud and arrogant, and for all that is lifted up, and it shall be brought low –

¹³ for all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, for all the oaks of Bashan,

¹⁴ for all the high mountains, for all the hills that are lifted up,

¹⁵ for every lofty tower, for every fortified wall,

¹⁶ for all the ships of Tarshish, and for all pleasant imagery.

¹⁷ The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

¹⁸ The idols shall utterly pass away.

¹⁹ Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

²⁰ In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,

²¹ to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

²² Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

¹ TThe word that Isaias the son of Amos saw, concerning Juda and Jerusalem.

² And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it.

³ And many people shall go, and say: Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall come forth from Sion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

⁴ And he shall judge the Gentiles, and rebuke many people: and they shall turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they be exercised any more to war.

⁵ O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.

⁶ For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob: because they are filled as in times past, and have had soothsayers as the Philistines, and have adhered to strange children.

⁷ Their land is filled with silver and gold: and there is no end of their treasures.

⁸ And their land is filled with horses: and their chariots are innumerable. Their land also is full of idols: they have adored the work of their own hands, which their own fingers have made.

⁹ And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been debased: therefore forgive them not.

¹⁰ Enter thou into the rock, and hide thee in the pit from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty.

¹¹ The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be made to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

¹² Because the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and highminded, and upon every one that is arrogant, and he shall be humbled.

¹³ And upon all the tall and lofty cedars of Libanus, and upon all the oaks of Basan.

¹⁴ And upon all the high mountains and upon all the elevated hills.

¹⁵ And upon every high tower, and every fenced wall.

¹⁶ And upon all the ships of Tharsis, and upon all that is fair to behold.

¹⁷ And the loftiness of men shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

¹⁸ And idols shall be utterly destroyed.

¹⁹ And they shall go into the holes of rocks, and into the caves of the earth from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth.

²⁰ In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats.

²¹ And he shall go into the clefts of rocks, and into the holes of stones from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth.

²² Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.