| Isa. 2:1 |
The word which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem: |
| Isa. 2:2 |
But in the last days / The mountain of the house of Jehovah will be established / On the top of the mountains; / And it will be lifted up above the hills; / And all the nations will stream to it, |
| Isa. 2:3 |
And many peoples will come and say, / Come and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, / To the house of the God of Jacob, / That He may instruct us in His ways, / And that we may walk in His paths. / For from Zion will go forth instruction, / And the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem; |
| Isa. 2:4 |
And He will judge between the nations, / And will decide [matters] for many peoples. / And they will beat their swords into plowshares, / And their spears into pruning knives; / Nation will not lift up sword against nation, / Nor will they learn war anymore. |
| Isa. 2:5 |
House of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of Jehovah. |
| Isa. 2:6 |
For You have abandoned Your people, / The house of Jacob; / Because they are full of [customs from] the east, / And they are soothsayers like the Philistines, / And they clasp hands with the children of foreigners. |
| Isa. 2:7 |
Their land is full of silver and gold, / And their treasures are limitless; / Their land is also full of horses, / And their chariots are limitless. |
| Isa. 2:8 |
And their land is full of idols; / They bow down to the work of their hands, / To that which their fingers have made. |
| Isa. 2:9 |
Thus the ordinary man is humbled, and the man of distinction is abased-- / But do not forgive them. |
| Isa. 2:10 |
Enter into the rock, / And hide in the dust, / From the dread of Jehovah, / And from the splendor of His majesty. |
| Isa. 2:11 |
Man's haughty look will be abased, / And the loftiness of men will be humbled; / But Jehovah alone will be exalted / In that day. |
| Isa. 2:12 |
For Jehovah of hosts will have a day / Over everything proud and lofty, / And over everything lifted up that it may be abased; |
| Isa. 2:13 |
Over all the cedars of Lebanon, / Which are lofty and lifted up, / And over all the oaks of Bashan; |
| Isa. 2:14 |
Over all the lofty mountains, / And over all the hills that are lifted up; |
| Isa. 2:15 |
Over every high tower, / And over every fortified wall; |
| Isa. 2:16 |
Over all the ships of Tarshish, / And over all their pleasant artifacts. |
| Isa. 2:17 |
And the haughtiness of the ordinary man will be humbled, / And the loftiness of the men of distinction will be abased; / But Jehovah alone will be exalted / In that day. |
| Isa. 2:18 |
And the idols will vanish completely. |
| Isa. 2:19 |
And [men] will go into caves in the rocks / And into holes in the dust, / From the dread of Jehovah, / And from the splendor of His majesty, / When He arises to make the earth tremble. |
| Isa. 2:20 |
In that day a man will cast / His idols of silver and his idols of gold, / Which they made for themselves to bow down to, / To the moles and to the bats, |
| Isa. 2:21 |
So that they may go into the crevices of the rocks / And into the clefts of the cliffs, / From the dread of Jehovah, / And from the splendor of His majesty, / When He arises to make the earth tremble. |
| Isa. 2:22 |
Stop regarding man, / Whose [life] breath is in his nostrils. / For of what [value] is he considered to be? |