Isaiah, 2

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

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

2. And it shall come to pass in the last days, [that] the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

2. In the last days, the mountain of Yahweh's house shall be set over the highest mountains and shall tower over the hills.

3. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, 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 shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

3. All the nations shall stream to it, saying, "Come, let us go to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and we may walk in his paths. For the Teaching comes from Zion, and from Jerusalem the word of Yahweh.

4. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

4. He will rule over the nations and settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not raise sword against nation; they will train for war no more.

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

5. O nation of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!

6. Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and [are] soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.

6. You have forsaken your people, the land of Jacob, for it was full of diviners. They turned into soothsayers like the Philistines, and clasped hands with pagans.

7. Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither [is there any] end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither [is there any] end of their chariots:

7. Their land is full of silver and gold, there is no end to their treasures. Their land is full of horses, there is no end to their chariots.

8. Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

8. Their land is full of idols, and they bow down before the work of their hands, before the things their fingers have made.

9. And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.

9. Man will be humbled and the mortal fallen, forgive them not!

10. Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.

10. Get behind the rocks, hide in the dust, for fear of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty!

11. The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

11. The haughty looks of man will be humbled; the pride of mortal will be brought low. Yahweh alone will be exalted on that day.

12. For the day of the LORD of hosts [shall be] upon every [one that is] proud and lofty, and upon every [one that is] lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

12. Yahweh will stand up on that day against all the proud and arrogant, against all that is high or great,

13. And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, [that are] high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

13. against all the cedars of Lebanon and all the oaks of Bashan,

14. And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills [that are] lifted up,

14. against all the lofty mountains, and all the soaring hills,

15. And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,

15. against every high tower and fortified walls,

16. And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.

16. against all the ships of Tarshish and their luxurious load.

17. And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

17. The arrogance of man will be humbled; the pride of mortal will be brought low. Yahweh alone will be exalted on that day,

18. And the idols he shall utterly abolish.

18. and all the idols will pass away.

19. And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

19. People will flee into the hollows of the rocks, into the caverns of the earth, from the terror of Yahweh, from the splendor of his majesty, when he arises to terrify the earth.

20. In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made [each one] for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

20. On that day, they will throw to the moles and to the bats their idols of silver and gold, which they made for themselves to worship.

21. To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

21. They will flee into the caverns of the rocks, into the crevices of the crags, from the terror of the Lord, from the splendor of his Majesty, when he arises to terrify the earth.

22. Cease ye from man, whose breath [is] in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

22. Rely not on man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. What is he worth?