| King James Bible | New Living Translation |
| 1The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. | 1This is a vision that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem: |
| 2And 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. | 2In the last days, the mountain of the LORD’s house will be the highest of all— the most important place on earth. It will be raised above the other hills, and people from all over the world will stream there to worship. |
| 3And 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. | 3People from many nations will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of Jacob’s God. There he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the LORD’s teaching will go out from Zion; his word will go out from Jerusalem. |
| 4And 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. | 4The LORD will mediate between nations and will settle international disputes. They will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer fight against nation, nor train for war anymore. A Warning of Judgment |
| 5O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD. | 5Come, descendants of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD! |
| 6Therefore 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. | 6For the LORD has rejected his people, the descendants of Jacob, because they have filled their land with practices from the East and with sorcerers, as the Philistines do. They have made alliances with pagans. |
| 7Their 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: | 7Israel is full of silver and gold; there is no end to its treasures. Their land is full of warhorses; there is no end to its chariots. |
| 8Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: | 8Their land is full of idols; the people worship things they have made with their own hands. |
| 9And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not. | 9So now they will be humbled, and all will be brought low— do not forgive them. |
| 10Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. | 10Crawl into caves in the rocks. Hide in the dust from the terror of the LORD and the glory of his majesty. |
| 11The 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. | 11Human pride will be brought down, and human arrogance will be humbled. Only the LORD will be exalted on that day of judgment. |
| 12For 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: | 12For the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has a day of reckoning. He will punish the proud and mighty and bring down everything that is exalted. |
| 13And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, | 13He will cut down the tall cedars of Lebanon and all the mighty oaks of Bashan. |
| 14And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, | 14He will level all the high mountains and all the lofty hills. |
| 15And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall, | 15He will break down every high tower and every fortified wall. |
| 16And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures. | 16He will destroy all the great trading ships and every magnificent vessel. |
| 17And 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. | 17Human pride will be humbled, and human arrogance will be brought down. Only the LORD will be exalted on that day of judgment. |
| 18And the idols he shall utterly abolish. | 18Idols will completely disappear. |
| 19And 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. | 19When the LORD rises to shake the earth, his enemies will crawl into holes in the ground. They will hide in caves in the rocks from the terror of the LORD and the glory of his majesty. |
| 20In 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; | 20On that day of judgment they will abandon the gold and silver idols they made for themselves to worship. They will leave their gods to the rodents and bats, |
| 21To 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. | 21while they crawl away into caverns and hide among the jagged rocks in the cliffs. They will try to escape the terror of the LORD and the glory of his majesty as he rises to shake the earth. |
| 22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of? | 22Don’t put your trust in mere humans. They are as frail as breath. What good are they? |
| King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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