Isaiah 2

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¹The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. ✦ ²Now it shall come to pass in the latter days That the mountain of the Lord’s house Shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it. ✦ ³Many people shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, To the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, And we shall walk in His paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. ✦ ⁴He shall judge between the nations, And rebuke many people; 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 anymore. ✦ ⁵O house of Jacob, come and let us walk In the light of the Lord. ✦ ⁶For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with eastern ways; They are soothsayers like the Philistines, And they are pleased with the children of foreigners. ✦ ⁷Their land is also full of silver and gold, And there is no end to their treasures; Their land is also full of horses, And there is no end to their chariots. ✦ ⁸Their land is also full of idols; They worship the work of their own hands, That which their own fingers have made. ✦ ⁹People bow down, And each man humbles himself; Therefore do not forgive them. ✦ ¹⁰Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, From the terror of the Lord And the glory of His majesty. ✦ ¹¹The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, The haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. ✦ ¹²For the day of the Lord of hosts Shall come upon everything proud and lofty, Upon everything lifted up— And it shall be brought low— ✦ ¹³Upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up, And upon all the oaks of Bashan; ✦ ¹⁴Upon all the high mountains, And upon all the hills that are lifted up; ✦ ¹⁵Upon every high tower, And upon every fortified wall; ✦ ¹⁶Upon all the ships of Tarshish, And upon all the beautiful sloops. ✦ ¹⁷The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; The Lord alone will be exalted in that day, ✦ ¹⁸But the idols He shall utterly abolish. ✦ ¹⁹They shall go into the holes of the rocks, And into the caves of the earth, From the terror of the Lord And the glory of His majesty, When He arises to shake the earth mightily. ✦ ²⁰In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver And his idols of gold, Which they made, each for himself to worship, To the moles and bats, ✦ ²¹To go into the clefts of the rocks, And into the crags of the rugged rocks, From the terror of the Lord And the glory of His majesty, When He arises to shake the earth mightily. ✦ ²²Sever yourselves from such a man, Whose breath is in his nostrils; For of what account is he? ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Isa 2 ·8 Isa 30 ·6 Isa 27 ·5 Isa 60 ·5 Isa 13 ·5 Isa 11 ·4 Hos 2 ·4 Hos 14 ·4

Christ at the center

Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).

How Isaiah 2 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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★ Start hereVideoBibleProject — video overviews & word studiesBibleProject · 5–10 min · Free · evangelical
Free animated overviews of every book of the Bible, plus themes and Hebrew/Greek word studies — the best visual on-ramp to any book. (Biblical-theology, broadly evangelical, not distinctly Reformed.)
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A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

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SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical
Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

Seminary

★ Start hereCommentaryThe Book of Isaiah (NICOT)John N. Oswalt · Paid · evangelical
The standard evangelical commentary on Isaiah — thorough and devotionally warm.

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VideoBibleProject — Isaiah videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical
Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.
VideoWatch teaching on Isaiah 2YouTube · Lay · Free
Sermons and chapter teaching from across YouTube.
CommentaryEnduring Word — Isaiah 2David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical
Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.
CommentaryMatthew Henry on IsaiahMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical
The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).
ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Isaiah 2Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free
Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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