Isaiah 2
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Isaiah 2:7-20

7Their land is full of gold and silver; there is no end to their wealth. Their land is full of horses; there is no end to their chariots.

8Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the product of their own hands, what their own fingers have fashioned.

9Men bow down to them in homage, they lie flat on the ground in worship. Don’t spare them!

10Go up into the rocky cliffs, hide in the ground. Get away from the dreadful judgment of the Lord, from his royal splendor!

11Proud men will be brought low, arrogant men will be humiliated; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

12Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has planned a day of judgment, for all the high and mighty, for all who are proud – they will be humiliated;

13for all the cedars of Lebanon, that are so high and mighty, for all the oaks of Bashan;

14for all the tall mountains, for all the high hills,

15for every high tower, for every fortified wall,

16for all the large ships, for all the impressive ships.

17Proud men will be humiliated, arrogant men will be brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

18The worthless idols will be completely eliminated.

19They will go into caves in the rocky cliffs and into holes in the ground, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the Lord and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.

20At that time men will throw their silver and gold idols, which they made for themselves to worship, into the caves where rodents and bats live,

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