Isaiah 2

1 The word that Isaias the son of Amos saw, concerning Juda and Jerusalem.

The thing that Isaiah son of Amoz has seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem:

2 And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it.

And it has come to pass, In the latter end of the days, The mountain of YHWH’s house is established, Above the top of the mountains, And it has been lifted up above the heights, And all the nations have flowed to it.

3 And many people shall go, and say: Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and 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 shall come forth from Sion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

And many peoples have gone and said, “Come, and we go up to the mountain of YHWH, To the house of the God of Jacob, And He teaches us of His ways, And we walk in His paths, For a law goes forth from Zion, And a word of YHWH from Jerusalem.

4 And he shall judge the Gentiles, and rebuke many people: and they shall turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they be exercised any more to war.

And He has judged between the nations, And has given a decision to many peoples, And they have beat their swords to plowshares, And their spears to pruning-hooks, Nation does not lift up sword to nation, Nor do they learn anymore—war.

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

O house of Jacob, come, And we walk in the light of YHWH.”

6 For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob: because they are filled as in times past, and have had soothsayers as the Philistines, and have adhered to strange children.

For You have left Your people, the house of Jacob. For they have been filled from the east, And [are] sorcerers like the Philistines, And strike hands with the children of strangers.

7 Their land is filled with silver and gold: and there is no end of their treasures.

And its land is full of silver and gold, And there is no end to its treasures, And its land is full of horses, And there is no end to its chariots,

8 And their land is filled with horses: and their chariots are innumerable. Their land also is full of idols: they have adored the work of their own hands, which their own fingers have made.

And its land is full of idols, It bows itself to the work of its hands, To that which its fingers have made,

9 And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been debased: therefore forgive them not.

And the low bows down, and the high is humbled, And You do not accept them.

10 Enter thou into the rock, and hide thee in the pit from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty.

Enter into a rock, and be hidden in dust, Because of the fear of YHWH, And because of the honor of His excellence.

11 The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be made to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, And the loftiness of men has been bowed down, And YHWH alone has been set on high in that day.

12 Because the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and highminded, and upon every one that is arrogant, and he shall be humbled.

For a day [is] to YHWH of Hosts, For every proud and high one, And for every lifted up and low one,

13 And upon all the tall and lofty cedars of Libanus, and upon all the oaks of Basan.

And for all cedars of Lebanon, The high and the exalted ones, And for all oaks of Bashan,

14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the elevated hills.

And for all the high mountains, And for all the exalted heights,

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

And for every high tower, And for every fortified wall,

16 And upon all the ships of Tharsis, and upon all that is fair to behold.

And for all ships of Tarshish, And for all desirable pictures.

17 And the loftiness of men shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

And the haughtiness of man has been bowed down, And the loftiness of men humbled, And YHWH alone has been set on high in that day.

18 And idols shall be utterly destroyed.

And the idols—they completely pass away.

19 And they shall go into the holes of rocks, and into the caves of the earth from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth.

And [men] have entered into caverns of rocks, And into caves of dust, Because of the fear of YHWH, And because of the honor of His excellence, In His rising to terrify the earth.

20 In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats.

In that day man casts his idols of silver, And his idols of gold, That they have made for him to worship, To moles, and to bats,

21 And he shall go into the clefts of rocks, and into the holes of stones from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth.

To enter into cavities of the rocks, And into clefts of the high places, Because of the fear of YHWH, And because of the honor of His excellence, In His rising to terrify the earth.

22 Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.

Cease yourselves from man, Whose breath [is] in his nostrils, For—in what is he esteemed?