Isaiah 2

The Mountain of Yahweh

2The word that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:

²And it shall happen in the future of the days

the mountain of the house^a of Yahweh shall be established;

it will be among the highest^b of the mountains,

and it shall be raised from the hills.

All of the nations shall travel to him;

³many peoples shall come.

And they shall say,

“Come, let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh,

to the house^c of the God of Jacob,

and may he teach us part of his ways,

and let us walk in his paths.”

For instruction shall go out from Zion,

and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.

⁴He shall judge between the nations

and he shall arbitrate for many peoples.

They shall beat their swords into ploughshares

and their spears into pruning hooks.

A nation shall not lift up a sword against a nation,

and they shall not learn war again.

The Day of Yahweh

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

⁶For you have forsaken your people, house of Jacob,

because they are full^d from the east,

and of soothsayers like the Philistines,

and they make alliances^e with the offspring of foreigners.

⁷And its land is filled with silver and gold,

and there is no end to its treasures;

and its land is filled with horses,

and there is no end to its chariots.

⁸Its land is filled with idols;

they bow down to the work of their^f hands,

to what they made with their^g fingers.

⁹So humanity is humbled;

everyone is humbled,

and you must not forgive them.

¹⁰Enter into the rock

and hide yourself in the dust

from the presence of the terror of Yahweh

and from the glory of his majesty.

¹¹The haughty eyes^h of humanity willⁱ be brought low,

and the pride of everyone will be humbled,

and Yahweh alone will be exalted on that day.

¹²For there is a day for Yahweh of hosts

against all of the proud and the lofty

and against all that is lifted up and humble,^j

¹³and against all the lofty and lifted up cedars of Lebanon,

and against all the large trees of Bashan,

¹⁴and against all the high mountains,

and against all the lofty hills,

¹⁵and against every kind of high tower,

and against every kind of fortified wall,

¹⁶and against all the ships of Tarshish,

and against all the ships of desire.

¹⁷And the haughtiness of the people shall be humbled,

and the pride of everyone shall be brought low,

and Yahweh alone will be exalted on that day.

¹⁸And the idols shall pass away entirely,

¹⁹and they will enter into the caves of the rocks

and into the holes of the ground

from the presence of the terror of Yahweh

and from the glory of his majesty

when he rises^k to terrify the earth.

²⁰On that day humanity will throw away its idols of silver

and its idols of gold,

which they made for it to worship,

to the rodents^l and to the bats—

²¹to enter into the crevices of the rocks

and into the clefts of the crags

from the presence of the terror of Yahweh

and from the glory of his majesty,

when he rises^m to terrify the earth.

²²Turn away from humanity,

who has breath in its nostrils,ⁿ

for by^o what is it esteemed?