Isaiah 2:1-17 ▼

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

2 And it shall come to pass at the end of the days, the mountain of the house of YHWH will be established at the top of the mountains, and it will be lifted up above the hills, and all the nations will flow to it.

3 And many people will come and say, “Come and let us go up to the mountain of YHWH, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us His ways, and we will walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the Word of YHWH from Jerusalem.

4 And He will judge between the nations and will give rebuke to many peoples, and they will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer lift up a sword against nation, and will not they learn any more war.

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

6 For You have left Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, and they practice divination like the Philistines, and with the sons of foreigners they strike hands.

7 And its land is full of silver and gold, and there is no end to the treasure. And its land is full of horses, and there is no end to the chariots.

8 And its land is full of idols; to the work of the hands they bow down—to that which its fingers have made.

9 And mankind is bent down, each man abases himself—do not forgive them!

10 Enter into the rock and hide yourself in the dust, from the dread of YHWH and from the glory of His majesty.

11 The haughtiness of the eyes of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be bent down. And YHWH alone will be exalted in that day.

12 For the day of YHWH of hosts is upon everything proud and lofty, and upon everything lifted up—and it will be brought low—

13 and upon all the cedars of Lebanon, those being high and lifted up, and upon all the Oaks of Bashan,

14 and upon all on the mountains that are high, and upon all on the hills that are lifted up,

15 and upon every high tower, and upon every fortified wall,

16 and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all the desirable vessels.

17 And the haughtiness of man will be bent down, and the loftiness of men will be brought low, and YHWH alone will be exalted in that day—