Isaiah prophesies the coming of Christ's kingdom, 1-5. Wickedness is the cause of God's forsaking, 6-9. He exhorts to fear because of the powerful effects of God's majesty, 19-22.
1 [The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.]
2 And it shall come to pass in the last 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.
3 And many people shall go and say,/
"Come, 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 the law shall go forth,/
and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And he will judge among the nations/
and will 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 anymore.
5 O house of Jacob, come, and let us walk/
in the light of the LORD.
6 Therefore, you have forsaken your people the house of Jacob,/
because they are replenished from the east/
and are soothsayers like the Philistines,/
and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
7 Their land is also 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.
8 Their land is also full of idols./
They worship the work of their own hands,/
that which their own fingers have made.
9 And the common man bows down,/
and the great man humbles himself;/
therefore, do not forgive them.
10 Enter into the rock/
and hide in the dust,/
for fear of the LORD/
and for the glory of his majesty.
11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled/
and the haughtiness of men shall be abased,/
and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
12 For the day of the LORD of hosts/
shall be upon everyone who is proud and lofty,/
and upon everyone who is lifted up/
(and he shall be brought low),
13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon/
that are high and lifted up/
and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
14 And upon all the high mountains/
and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
15 And upon every high tower/
and upon every fortified wall,
16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish/
and upon all pleasant pictures.
17 And the loftiness of man shall be abased/
and the haughtiness of men shall be made low,/
and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
18 And he will utterly abolish the idols.
19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks/
and into the caves of the earth,/
for fear of the LORD/
and for the glory of his majesty,/
when he arises to shake the earth terribly.
20 In that day a man shall cast/
his idols of silver and his idols of gold,/
which they made each one for himself to worship,/
to the moles and to the bats,
21 To go into the clefts of the rocks/
and into the tops of the ragged rocks,/
for fear of the LORD/
and for the glory of his majesty,/
when he arises to shake the earth terribly.
22 Cease from man, whose breath is in his nostrils./
For what is he to be accounted of?
Matthew Henry Commentary - Isaiah, Chapter 2[➚]
[v.10] - Quoted in 2nd Theaaslonians 1:9.
[v.19] - Quoted in 2nd Theaaslonians 1:9.
[v.21] - Quoted in 2nd Theaaslonians 1:9.