Isaiah 2

Isaiah 2

¹This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

⁸Their land also is full of idols.

They worship the work of their own hands,

that which their own fingers have made.

⁹Man is brought low,

and mankind is humbled;

therefore don’t forgive them.

¹⁰Enter into the rock,

and hide in the dust,

from before the terror of Yahweh,

and from the glory of his majesty.

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.

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:

¹³For all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up,

for all the oaks of Bashan,

¹⁴For all the high mountains,

for all the hills that are lifted up,

¹⁵For every lofty tower,

for every fortified wall,

¹⁶For all the ships of Tarshish,

and for all pleasant imagery.

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.

¹⁸The idols shall utterly pass away.

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.

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;

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.

²²Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils;

for of what account is he?