Isaiah 2:17 - Prayer Tents

God’s Universal Reign

2THE WORD which Isaiah son of Amoz saw [revealed] concerning Judah and Jerusalem.H1697H3470H1121H531H2372H3063H3389

2It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be [firmly] established as the highest of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow to it.H319H3117H2022H3068H1004H3559H7218H2022H5375H1389H1471H5102

3And many people shall come and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that He may teach us His ways and that we may walk in His paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law {and} instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.H7227H5971H1980H559H3212H5927H2022H3068H1004H430H3290H3384H1870H3212H734H6726H3318H8451H1697H3068H3389

4And He shall judge between the nations and shall decide [disputes] for many peoples; and 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.H8199H1471H3198H7227H5971H3807H2719H855H2595H4211H1471H5375H2719H1471H3925H4421

5O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord.H1004H3290H3212H3212H216H3068

6Surely [Lord] You have rejected {and} forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled [with customs] from the east and with soothsayers [who foretell] like the Philistines; also they strike hands {and} make pledges {and} agreements with the children of aliens.H5203H5971H1004H3290H4390H6924H6049H6430H5606H3206H5237

7Their land also is full of silver and gold; neither is there any end to their treasures. Their land is also full of horses; neither is there any end to their chariots.H776H4390H3701H2091H7097H214H776H4390H5483H7097H4818

8Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, what their own fingers have made.H776H4390H457H7812H4639H3027H676H6213

9And the common man is bowed down [before idols], also the great man is brought low {and} humbles himself--therefore forgive them not [O Lord].H120H7817H376H8213H5375

10Enter into the rock and hide yourself in the dust from before the terror of the Lord and from the glory of His majesty.H935H6697H2934H6083H6440H6343H3068H1926H1347

11The proud looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be humbled; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.H1365H5869H120H8213H7312H582H7817H3068H7682H3117

A Day of Reckoning Coming

12For there shall be a day of the Lord of hosts against all who are proud and haughty and against all who are lifted up--and they shall be brought low--H3117H3068H6635H1343H7311H5375H8213

13[The wrath of God will begin by coming down] against all the cedars of Lebanon [west of the Jordan] that are high and lifted up, and against all the oaks of Bashan [east of the Jordan],H730H3844H7311H5375H437H1316

14And [after that] against all the high mountains and all the hills that are lifted up,H7311H2022H1389H5375

15And against every high tower and every fenced wall,H1364H4026H1219H2346

16And against all the ships of Tarshish and all the picturesque {and} desirable imagery [designed for mere ornament and luxury].H591H8659H2532H7914

17Then the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.H1365H120H7817H7312H582H8213H3068H7682H3117

18And the idols shall utterly pass away (be abolished).H457H3632H2498

19Then shall [the stricken, deprived of all in which they had trusted] go into the caves of the rocks and into the holes of the earth from before the terror {and} dread of the Lord and from before the glory of His majesty, when He arises to shake mightily {and} terribly the earth.H935H4631H6697H4247H6083H6440H6343H3068H1926H1347H6965H6206H776

20In that day men shall cast away to the moles and to the bats their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship,H3117H120H7993H457H3701H457H2091H6213H7812H2661H6512H5847

21To go into the caverns of the rocks and into the clefts of the ragged rocks from before the terror {and} dread of the Lord and from before the glory of His majesty, when He rises to shake mightily {and} terribly the earth.H935H5366H6697H5585H5553H6440H6343H3068H1926H1347H6965H6206H776

22Cease to trust in [weak, frail, and dying] man, whose breath is in his nostrils [for so short a time]; in what sense can he be counted as having intrinsic worth?H2308H120H5397H639H2803