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1. The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

1. The word which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

2. It will happen in the final days that the mountain of Yahweh's house will rise higher than the mountains and tower above the heights. Then all the nations will stream to it,

2. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,

3. many peoples will come to it and say, 'Come, let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob that he may teach us his ways so that we may walk in his paths.' For the Law will issue from Zion and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.

3. and many peoples shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

4. Then he will judge between the nations and arbitrate between many peoples. They will hammer their swords into ploughshares and their spears into sickles. Nation will not lift sword against nation, no longer will they learn how to make war.

4. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide for 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.

5. House of Jacob, come, let us walk in Yahweh's light.

5. O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the LORD.

6. You have rejected your people, the House of Jacob, for it has long been full of sorcerers like the Philistines, and is overrun with foreigners.

6. For thou hast rejected thy people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of diviners from the east and of soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with foreigners.

7. The country is full of silver and gold and treasures unlimited, the country is full of horses, its chariots are unlimited;

7. Their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; their land is filled with horses, and there is no end to their chariots.

8. the country is full of idols. They bow down before the work of their hands, before what their own fingers have made.

8. Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.

9. Human nature has been humbled, humankind brought low: do not raise them again!

9. So man is humbled, and men are brought low -- forgive them not!

10. Go into the rock, hide in the dust, in terror of Yahweh, at the brilliance of his majesty, when he arises to make the earth quake.

10. Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty.

11. Human pride will lower its eyes, human arrogance will be humbled, and Yahweh alone will be exalted, on that day.

11. The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the pride of men shall be humbled; and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

12. That will be a day for Yahweh Sabaoth, for all who are majestic and haughty, for all who are proud, to be brought low,

12. For the LORD of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up and high;

13. for all the cedars of Lebanon, high and proud, and for all the oaks of Bashan;

13. against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up; and against all the oaks of Bashan;

14. for all the high mountains and for all the proud hills;

14. against all the high mountains, and against all the lofty hills;

15. for every lofty tower and for every towering wall;

15. against every high tower, and against every fortified wall;

16. for all the ships of Tarshish and for everything held precious.

16. against all the ships of Tarshish, and against all the beautiful craft.

17. Human pride will be humbled, human arrogance brought low, and Yahweh alone will be exalted, on that day.

17. And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the pride of men shall be brought low; and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

18. When the idols all disappear,

18. And the idols shall utterly pass away.

19. they will go into the caverns of the rocks and into the fissures of the earth in terror of Yahweh, at the brilliance of his majesty, when he arises to make the earth quake.

19. And men shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.

20. That day, people will fling to moles and bats the silver idols and golden idols which have been made for them to worship,

20. In that day men will cast forth their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,

21. and go into the crevices of the rocks and the clefts in the cliffs, in terror of Yahweh, at the brilliance of his majesty, when he arises to make the earth quake.

21. to enter the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.

22. Have no more to do with humankind, which has only the breath in its nostrils. How much is this worth?

22. Turn away from man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?



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