1This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
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2It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains,
- and shall be raised above the hills;
- and all nations shall flow to it.
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3Many peoples shall go and say,
- “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh,
- to the house of the God of Jacob;
- and he will teach us of his ways,
- and we will walk in his paths.”
- For out of Zion the law shall go forth,
- and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.
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4He will judge between the nations,
- and will decide concerning 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.
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5House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.
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6For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob,
- because they are filled from the east,
- with those who practice divination like the Philistines,
- and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.
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7Their land is full of silver and gold,
- neither is there any end of their treasures.
- Their land also is full of horses,
- neither is there any end of their chariots.
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8Their land also is full of idols.
- They worship the work of their own hands,
- that which their own fingers have made.
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9Man is brought low,
- and mankind is humbled;
- therefore don’t forgive them.
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10Enter into the rock,
- and hide in the dust,
- from before the terror of Yahweh,
- and from the glory of his majesty.
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11The lofty looks of man will be brought low,
- the haughtiness of men will be bowed down,
- and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
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12For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and haughty,
- and for all that is lifted up;
- and it shall be brought low:
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13For all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up,
- for all the oaks of Bashan,
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14For all the high mountains,
- for all the hills that are lifted up,
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15For every lofty tower,
- for every fortified wall,
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16For all the ships of Tarshish,
- and for all pleasant imagery.
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17The loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
- and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low;
- and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
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18The idols shall utterly pass away.
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19Men shall go into the caves of the rocks,
- and into the holes of the earth,
- from before the terror of Yahweh,
- and from the glory of his majesty,
- when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
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20In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver,
- and their idols of gold,
- which have been made for themselves to worship,
- to the moles and to the bats;
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21To go into the caverns of the rocks,
- and into the clefts of the ragged rocks,
- from before the terror of Yahweh,
- and from the glory of his majesty,
- when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
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22Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils;
- for of what account is he?