Isaiah, 2

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

1. The word that 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. 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.

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 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.

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. 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.

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

5. O house of Jacob, come ye, and 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. 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.

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 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:

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

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

9. And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore 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 thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for 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 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.

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 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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

18. When the idols all disappear,

18. And the idols he shall utterly abolish.

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 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.

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 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;

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 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.

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

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