A reading from the Book of Isaiah.

The word that Isaiah, the son of Amaz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the House of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills,

and all the nations shall flow to it, and many people shall come and say,

Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob,

that he may teach us His ways, and that we may walk in His paths, for

out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples, and 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.

O House of Jacob, come. Let us walk in the light of the Lord. For you have rejected your people, the house of

Jacob, because they are full of things from the east, and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines,

and they strike hands with the children of foreigners. Their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to

their treasures. Their land is filled with horses, and there is no end to their chariots. Their land

is filled with idols. They bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have

made. So man is humbled, and each one is brought low.

Do not forgive them.

Enter into the rock and hide in the dust

from before the terror of the Lord

and from the splendor of His Majesty.

The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall

be humbled, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

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