1 Yahweh Will Judge the Nations The word which Isaiah the son of Amoz beheld concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 ¶Now it will be thatIn the last daysThe mountain of the house of YahwehWill be established 2:2Lit on as the head of the mountains,And will be lifted up above the hills;And all the nations will stream to it.
3 And many peoples will come and say,“Come, let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh,To the house of the God of Jacob,That He may instruct us 2:3 Or some of from His waysAnd that we may walk in His paths.”For from Zion the 2:3 Or instruction law will go forthAnd the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.
4 And He will judge between the nations,And will 2:4 Or reprove many render decisions for many peoples;And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.Nation will not lift up sword against nation,And never again will they learn war.Yahweh Will Have a Day of Reckoning
5 ¶Come, house of Jacob, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.
6 For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob,Because they are filledwith influencesfrom the east,Andthey aresoothsayers like the Philistines,And they strikebargainswith the children of foreigners.
7 Their land has also been filled with silver and gold,And there is no end to their treasures;Their land has also been filled with horses,And there is no end to their chariots.
8 Their land has also been filled with idols;They worship the work of their hands,That which their fingers have made.
9 So thecommonman has been bowed down,And the manof importancehas been made low,But do not forgive them.
10 Enter the rock and hide in the dustFrom the dread of Yahweh and from the splendor of His majesty.
11 The 2:11 Lit eyes of the loftiness of man lofty look of 2:11 Or common man, cf.2:9 man will be made low,And the 2:11 Or men of importance, cf.2:9 men made high will be bowed down,And Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
12 ¶For Yahweh of hosts will have a dayof reckoningAgainst everyone who is proud and highAnd against everyone who is lifted up,That he may be made low.
13 Andit will beagainst all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up,Against all the oaks of Bashan,
14 Against all the high mountains,Against all the hills that are lifted up,
15 Against every lofty tower,Against every fortified wall,
16 Against all the ships of TarshishAnd against all the desirable craft.
17 The loftiness of 2:17Or common man, cf.2:9 man will be bowed down,And the 2:17Or men of importance, cf.2:9 men who are high will be made low;And Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day,
18 But the idols will completely vanish.
19 Menwill go into caves of the rocksAnd into holes of the 2:19 Lit dust groundBefore the dread of YahwehAnd the splendor of His majesty,When He arises to make the earth tremble.
20 In that day men will cast away to the moles and the batsTheir idols of silver and their idols of gold,Which they made for themselves to worship,
21 In order to go into the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffsBefore the dread of Yahweh and the splendor of His majesty,When He arises to make the earth tremble.
22 2:22Lit Cease from man Stop regarding 2:22Or common man, cf.2:9 man, whose breathof lifeis in his nostrils;For 2:22Lit in what why should he be esteemed?