# 2 Nephi 12

*Paraphrase*

This is the message Isaiah, son of Amoz, received about Judah and Jerusalem:

### A Vision of the Last Days

In the last days, the Lord’s house will stand on the highest mountain. It will rise above the hills, and people from every nation will stream toward it. Crowds of people will say, “Come on, let’s go up to the Lord’s mountain—to the house of Jacob’s God. He’ll teach us how he wants us to live, and we’ll walk in his ways.” God’s law will go out from Zion, and his word will spread from Jerusalem. He’ll settle disputes between nations and correct many peoples. They’ll hammer their swords into plowshares and reshape their spears into pruning hooks. Nation won’t raise weapons against nation, and they’ll never train for war again.

### A Call to Return

House of Jacob, come—let’s walk in the Lord’s light. Come back, because all of you have wandered off, each choosing your own wicked path.

Lord, you’ve turned away from your people, the house of Jacob. They’ve filled themselves with practices from the east. They listen to fortune-tellers like the Philistines do. They make alliances with foreigners. Their land overflows with silver and gold—endless treasures. Their land is packed with horses and chariots beyond counting. Their land is also full of idols. They bow down to things they made with their own hands—objects their own fingers shaped. The common person bows down, and the powerful refuse to humble themselves. Don’t forgive them.

### The Day of the Lord

You wicked people, run into the rocks! Hide in the dirt! The Lord’s terror and his glorious majesty will strike you down. Human arrogance will be crushed, and the pride of people will be brought low. The Lord alone will be lifted high on that day.

The day of the Lord of Heaven’s armies is coming soon for all nations—for everyone. It’s coming for the proud and arrogant, for everyone who exalts themselves. They’ll be brought down. The Lord’s day will come against all the towering cedars of Lebanon and all the mighty oaks of Bashan. It will come against all the high mountains and hills, against all the nations that exalt themselves, against every people. It will come against every tall tower and every fortified wall. It will come against all the trading ships at sea, against the ships of Tarshish, and against all the beautiful artwork.

Human arrogance will be crushed, and the pride of people will be brought low. The Lord alone will be exalted on that day. And he will completely destroy every idol.

People will crawl into holes in the rocks and caves in the ground when the Lord’s terror comes upon them. His glorious majesty will strike them down when he rises to shake the earth. On that day, people will throw away their silver and gold idols—the ones they made to worship—and leave them to the moles and bats. They’ll flee into crevices in the rocks and onto jagged cliffs when the Lord’s terror comes and his glorious majesty strikes them down—when he rises to shake the earth.

Stop trusting in mere humans, who are here one breath and gone the next. What are they really worth?

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*Source: [The Book of Mormon](https://bookofmormon.com/paraphrase/2-nephi/12)*
