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Major Prophets

Isaiah 2

The Mountain of the House of the LORD

1This is the message that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem:

1The word that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:

2In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD

will be established as the chief of the mountains;

it will be raised above the hills,

and all nations will stream to it.

2And it shall come to pass at the end of the days, the mountain of the house of YHWH will be established at the top of the mountains, and it will be lifted up above the hills, and all the nations will flow to it.

3And many peoples will come and say:

“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,

to the house of the God of Jacob.

He will teach us His ways

so that we may walk in His paths.”

For the law will go forth from Zion,

and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

3And many people will come and say, “Come and let us go up to the mountain of YHWH, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us His ways, and we will walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the Word of YHWH from Jerusalem.

4Then He will judge between the nations

and arbitrate for many peoples.

They will beat their swords into plowshares

and their spears into pruning hooks.

Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation,

nor train anymore for war.

4And He will judge between the nations and will give rebuke to many peoples, and they will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer lift up a sword against nation, and will not they learn any more war.

The Day of Reckoning

5Come, O house of Jacob,

let us walk in the light of the LORD.

5O House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of YHWH.

6For You have abandoned Your people,

the house of Jacob,

because they are filled

with influences from the east;

they are soothsayers like the Philistines;

they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

6For You have left Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, and they practice divination like the Philistines, and with the sons of foreigners they strike hands.

7Their land is full of silver and gold,

with no limit to their treasures;

their land is full of horses,

with no limit to their chariots.

7And its land is full of silver and gold, and there is no end to the treasure. And its land is full of horses, and there is no end to the chariots.

8Their land is full of idols;

they bow down to the work of their hands,

to what their fingers have made.

8And its land is full of idols; to the work of the hands they bow down—to that which its fingers have made.

9So mankind is brought low,

and man is humbled—

do not forgive them!

9And mankind is bent down, each man abases himself—do not forgive them!

10Go into the rocks

and hide in the dust

from the terror of the LORD

and the splendor of His majesty.

10Enter into the rock and hide yourself in the dust, from the dread of YHWH and from the glory of His majesty.

11The proud look of man will be humbled,

and the loftiness of men brought low;

the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

11The haughtiness of the eyes of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be bent down. And YHWH alone will be exalted in that day.

12For the Day of the LORD of Hosts

will come against all the proud and lofty,

against all that is exalted—

it will be humbled—

12For the day of YHWH of hosts is upon everything proud and lofty, and upon everything lifted up—and it will be brought low—

13against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up,

against all the oaks of Bashan,

13and upon all the cedars of Lebanon, those being high and lifted up, and upon all the Oaks of Bashan,

14against all the tall mountains,

against all the high hills,

14and upon all on the mountains that are high, and upon all on the hills that are lifted up,

15against every high tower,

against every fortified wall,

15and upon every high tower, and upon every fortified wall,

16against every ship of Tarshish,

and against every stately vessel.

16and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all the desirable vessels.

17So the pride of man will be brought low,

and the loftiness of men will be humbled;

the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,

17And the haughtiness of man will be bent down, and the loftiness of men will be brought low, and YHWH alone will be exalted in that day—

18and the idols will vanish completely.

18and the idols utterly will pass away.

19Men will flee to caves in the rocks

and holes in the ground,

away from the terror of the LORD

and from the splendor of His majesty,

when He rises to shake the earth.

19And they will go into the caves of rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from the face of the dread of YHWH and the glory of His majesty, in His rising to shake the earth.

20In that day men will cast away

to the moles and bats

their idols of silver and gold—

the idols they made to worship.

20In that day man will throw away the idols of his silver, and idols of his gold, which they made, each for himself, to bow down to diggers of holes and to the bats,

21They will flee to caverns in the rocks

and crevices in the cliffs,

away from the terror of the LORD

and from the splendor of His majesty,

when He rises to shake the earth.

21to go into the crevices of the rocks, and into the clefts of the cliffs, before the face of the dread of YHWH and the glory of His majesty, in His rising to shake the earth.

22Put no more trust in man,

who has only the breath in his nostrils.

Of what account is he?

22Cease yourselves from man, whose breath is in his nostril, for of what account is he?