A reading from the book of Isaiah.

The word that Isaiah the son of Amah saw concerning Judah in Jerusalem.

It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established at 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 any more. 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. For the Lord of hosts has a day, against all that is proud and lofty, against all

that is lifted up, and it shall be brought low, against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, and against

all the oaks of bation, against all the lofty mountains, and against all the uplifted hills,

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