Isaiah 2

¹ The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

² In the days to come the mountain of the Temple of Yahweh shall tower above the mountains and be lifted higher than the hills. All the nations will stream to it,

³ peoples without number will come to it; and they will say: ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the Temple of the God of Jacob that he may teach us his ways so that we may walk in his paths; since the Law will go out from Zion, and the oracle of Yahweh from Jerusalem’.

⁴ He will wield authority over the nations and adjudicate between many peoples; these will hammer their swords into ploughshares, their spears into sickles. Nation will not lift sword against nation, there will be no more training for war.

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

⁶ Yes, you have cast off your people, the House of Jacob; the land is full of soothsayers, full of sorcerers like the Philistines; they clap foreigners by the hand.

⁷ His land is full of silver and gold and treasures beyond counting; his land is full of horses and chariots without number;

⁸ his land is full of idols… They bow down before the work of their hands, before the thing their fingers have made.

⁹ The mortal will be humbled, man brought low; do not forgive them.

¹⁰ Get among the rocks, hide in the dust, at the sight of the terror of Yahweh, at the brilliance of his majesty, when he arises to make the earth quake.

¹¹ Human pride will lower its eyes, the arrogance of men will be humbled. Yahweh alone shall be exalted, on that day.

¹² Yes, that will be the day of Yahweh Sabaoth against all pride and arrogance, against all that is great, to bring it down,

¹³ against all the cedars of Lebanon and all the oaks of Bashan,

¹⁴ against all the high mountains and all the soaring hills,

¹⁵ against all the lofty towers and all the sheer walls,

¹⁶ against all the ships of Tarshish[*a] and all things of price…

¹⁷ Human pride will be humbled, the arrogance of men will be brought low. Yahweh alone will be exalted, on that day,

¹⁸ and all idols thrown down.

¹⁹ Go into the hollows of the rocks, into the caverns of the earth, at the sight of the terror of Yahweh, at the brilliance of his majesty, when he arises to make the earth quake.

²⁰ That day man will fling to moles and bats the idols of silver and the idols of gold that he made for worship,

²¹ and go into the crevices of the rocks and the rifts of the crag, at the sight of the terror of Yahweh, at the brilliance of his majesty, when he arises to make the earth quake.

²² Trust no more in man, he has but a breath in his nostrils. How much is he worth?