Judgment

Isaiah 2:10-22

Isaiah · ~700 BC · Status: Future · Confidence: 60%
“Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.”
King James Version · the opening — all 13 verses are below
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Human pride brought utterly low before God's majesty at the Day of the LORD, eschatological judgment on all arrogance.

Read the whole passage — all 13 verses (KJV)

2:10Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.

2:11The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

2:12For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

2:13And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

2:14And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,

2:15And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,

2:16And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.

2:17And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

2:18And the idols he shall utterly abolish.

2:19And 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 ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

2:20In 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;

2:21To 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 ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

2:22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

Fulfillment References

Revelation 6:15-17 2 Thessalonians 1:9

How Traditions Read This Prophecy

Apostolic (Oneness) PentecostalIn the day of the LORD every proud and lofty thing is brought low, 'and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.' Men hide in the rocks 'for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty' — the very scene Revelation paints at the Lamb's wrath (Rev. 6:15-17). The one God before whom all pride collapses is the Lord Jesus, exalted in that day above all.
JewishA day-of-the-LORD oracle humbling all human pride and idolatry, that God alone be exalted; a call to cease trusting in man.
CatholicThe humbling of human pride before God's majesty at the judgment; the LORD alone exalted.
ProtestantThe day of the LORD when all human loftiness falls and God alone is exalted — echoed in Revelation 6:15-17.
AcademicA refrain-structured judgment poem ('the LORD alone shall be exalted'); the imagery of hiding in rocks is taken up in Revelation.
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