Isaiah

¹ The Message Isaiah got regarding Judah and Jerusalem:

² when the mountain of God's House Will be The Mountain— solid, towering over all mountains. All nations will river toward it, people from all over set out for it.

³ let's climb God's Mountain, go to the House of the God of Jacob. He'll show us the way he works so we can live the way we're made." Zion's the source of the revelation. God's Message comes from Jerusalem.

⁴ He'll make things right between many peoples. They'll turn their swords into shovels, their spears into hoes. No more will nation fight nation; they won't play war anymore.

⁵ let's live in the light of God.

⁶ because their world is full of hokey religion, Philistine witchcraft, and pagan hocus-pocus,

⁷ Stuffed with things, no end to its machines and gadgets,

⁸ These people make their own gods and worship what they make.

⁹ Don't bother with them! They're not worth forgiving!

¹⁰ hide in the caves From the terror of God, from his dazzling presence.

¹¹ pretentious egos brought down a peg. It's God alone at front-and-center on the Day we're talking about,

¹² is matched against all big-talking rivals, against all swaggering big names;

¹³ hugely towering, and against the expansive chestnut;

¹⁴ against the ranges of Alps and Andes;

¹⁵ against all proud obelisks and statues;

¹⁶ against elegant three-masted schooners.

¹⁷ the pretentious egos brought down to earth, Leaving God alone at front-and-center on the Day we're talking about.

¹⁸ dressed up to look like gods will be gone for good.

¹⁹ duck into any hole you can find. Hide from the terror of God, from his dazzling presence, When he assumes his full stature on earth, towering and terrifying.

²⁰ the sticks and stones They've decked out in gold and silver to look like gods and then worshiped, And they will dump them in any ditch or gully,

²¹ and cliff hideouts To hide from the terror of God, from his dazzling presence, When he assumes his full stature on earth, towering and terrifying.

²² so full of themselves, so full of hot air! Can't you see there's nothing to them?