For you shall be ashamed of the oaks in which you delighted, and you shall blush for the gardens that you have chosen.

For you shall be like an oak whose leaf withers and like a garden without water.

The strong shall become like tinder and their work like a spark; they and their work shall burn together, with no one to quench them.

The Future House of God

The word that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

In days to come the mountain of the class="small-caps" >Lord’s house shall be established as the highest of the mountains and shall be raised above the hills; all the nations shall stream to it.

Many peoples shall come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the class="small-caps" >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 instruction and the word of the class="small-caps" >Lord from Jerusalem.

He shall judge between the nations and shall arbitrate for 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.

O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the class="small-caps" >Lord!

Judgment Pronounced on Arrogance

You have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, for they are full of diviners from the East and of soothsayers like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with foreigners.

Their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; their land is filled with horses, and there is no end to their chariots.

Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.

And so people are humbled, and everyone is brought low— [[do not forgive them!

Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust from the terror of the class="small-caps" >Lord and from the glory of his majesty.]]

The haughty eyes of people shall be brought low, and the pride of everyone shall be humbled, and the class="small-caps" >Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up; and against all the oaks of Bashan;

against every high tower and against every fortified wall;

The haughtiness of people shall be humbled, and the pride of everyone shall be brought low, and the class="small-caps" >Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

Enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from the terror of the class="small-caps" >Lord and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.

On that day people will throw away to the moles and to the bats their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship,

to enter the caverns of the rocks and the clefts in the crags, from the terror of the class="small-caps" >Lord and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.

[[Turn away from mortals, who have only breath in their nostrils, for of what account are they?]]

For now the Sovereign, the class="small-caps" >Lord of hosts, is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and staff— all support of bread and all support of water—

warrior and soldier, judge and prophet, diviner and elder,

captain of fifty and dignitary, counselor and skillful magician and expert enchanter.

And I will make youths their princes, and children shall rule over them.