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Isaiah 2:21
They will flee to caverns in the rocks
from The Day of Reckoning, Isaiah 2:5-22
What it says

They will hide in rock fissures before the splendor of the LORD's majesty.

What it is doing

This verse repeats the terror and inescapability of divine judgment.

In context

5Come, O house of Jacob, 6For You have abandoned Your people, 7Their land is full of silver and gold, 8Their land is full of idols; 9So mankind is brought low, 10Go into the rocks 11The proud look of man will be humbled, 12For the Day of the LORD of Hosts 13against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, 14against all the tall mountains, 15against every high tower, 16against every ship of Tarshish, 17So the pride of man will be brought low, 18and the idols will vanish completely. 19Men will flee to caves in the rocks 20In that day men will cast away 21They will flee to caverns in the rocks 22Put no more trust in man,