12:1 The word that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and
Jerusalem:
12:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, when the mountain of
the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and
shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it.
12:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us 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 out of Zion
shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
12:4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many
people: and they shall beat their swords into plow-shares, and their
spears into pruning-hooks—nation shall not lift up sword against
nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
12:5 O house of Jacob, come ye and let us walk in the light of the
Lord; yea, come, for ye have all gone astray, every one to his wicked
ways.
12:6 Therefore, O Lord, thou hast forsaken thy people, the house of
Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and hearken unto
soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the
children of strangers.
12:7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any
end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is
there any end of their chariots.
12:8 Their land is also full of idols; they worship the work of their
own hands, that which their own fingers have made.
12:9 And the mean man boweth not down, and the great man humbleth
himself not, therefore, forgive him not.
12:10 O ye wicked ones, enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust,
for the fear of the Lord and the glory of his majesty shall smite thee.
12:11 And it shall come to pass that the lofty looks of man shall be
humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord
alone shall be exalted in that day.
12:12 For the day of the Lord of Hosts soon cometh upon all nations,
yea, upon every one; yea, upon the proud and lofty, and upon every one
who is lifted up, and he shall be brought low.
12:13 Yea, and the day of the Lord shall come upon all the cedars of
Lebanon, for they are high and lifted up; and upon all the oaks of
Bashan;
12:14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills, and upon
all the nations which are lifted up, and upon every people;
12:15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall;
12:16 And upon all the ships of the sea, and upon all the ships of
Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
12:17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness
of men shall be made low; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that
day.
12:18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
12:19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves
of the earth, for the fear of the Lord shall come upon them and the
glory of his majesty shall smite them, when he ariseth to shake
terribly the earth.
12:20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols
of gold, which he hath made for himself to worship, to the moles and to
the bats;
12:21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the
ragged rocks, for the fear of the Lord shall come upon them and the
majesty of his glory shall smite them, when he ariseth to shake
terribly the earth.
12:22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein
is he to be accounted of?