Isaiah 2

CHAPTER 2

Yahweh Will Judge the Nations

¹The word which ^aIsaiah the son of Amoz beheld concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

²Now it will be that

^aIn the last days

The ^bmountain of the house of Yahweh

Will be established ¹as the head of the mountains,

And will be lifted up above the hills;

And ^call the nations will stream to it.

³And 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 ¹from His ways

And that we may walk in His paths.”

For ^afrom Zion the ²law will go forth

And the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.

⁴And He will judge between the nations,

And will ¹render decisions for many peoples;

And ^athey will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.

^bNation will not lift up sword against nation,

And never again will they learn war.

Yahweh Will Have a Day of Reckoning

⁵Come, ^ahouse of Jacob, and let us walk in the ^blight of Yahweh.

⁶For You have ^aabandoned Your people, the house of Jacob,

Because they are filled with influences from the east,

And they are soothsayers ^blike the Philistines,

And they ^cstrike bargains with the children of foreigners.

⁷Their land has also been filled with silver and gold,

And there is no end to their treasures;

Their land has also been filled with ^ahorses,

And there is no end to their chariots.

⁸Their land has also been ^afilled with idols;

They worship the ^bwork of their hands,

That which their fingers have made.

⁹So ^athe common man has been bowed down,

And the man of importance has been made low,

But ^bdo not forgive them.

^10aEnter the rock and hide in the dust

^bFrom the dread of Yahweh and from the splendor of His majesty.

¹¹The ^1alofty look of ²man will be made low,

And the ^3bmen made high will be bowed down,

And Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

¹²For Yahweh of hosts will have a day of reckoning

Against ^aeveryone who is proud and high

And against everyone who is lifted up,

That he may be made low.

¹³And it will be against all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up,

Against all the ^aoaks of Bashan,

¹⁴Against all the ^ahigh mountains,

Against all the hills that are lifted up,

¹⁵Against every ^alofty tower,

Against every fortified wall,

¹⁶Against all the ^aships of Tarshish

And against all the desirable craft.

¹⁷The loftiness of ¹man will be bowed down,

And the ²men who are high will be made low;

And Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day,

¹⁸But the ^aidols will completely vanish.

¹⁹Men will ^ago into caves of the rocks

And into holes of the ¹ground

Before the dread of Yahweh

And the splendor of His majesty,

When He arises ^bto make the earth tremble.

²⁰In that day men will ^acast away to the moles and the ^bbats

Their idols of silver and their idols of gold,

Which they made for themselves to worship,

²¹In order to ^ago into the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs

Before the dread of Yahweh and the splendor of His majesty,

When He arises to make the earth tremble.

^221aStop regarding ²man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils;

For ^3bwhy should he be esteemed?