Isaiah 2 — Legacy Standard Bible

Yahweh Will Judge the Nations

2The word which ^aIsaiah the son of Amoz beheld concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

²Now it will be that^aIn the last daysThe ^bmountain of the house of YahwehWill 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 waysAnd that we may walk in His paths.”For ^afrom Zion the ²law will go forthAnd 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.¹⁰^aEnter the rock and hide in the dust^bFrom the dread of Yahweh and from the splendor of His majesty.¹¹The ¹^,^alofty look of ²man will be made low,And the ³^,^bmen made high will be bowed down,And Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.¹²For Yahweh of hosts will have a day of reckoningAgainst ^aeveryone who is proud and highAnd 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 TarshishAnd 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 rocksAnd into holes of the ¹groundBefore the dread of YahwehAnd 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 ^bbatsTheir 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 cliffsBefore the dread of Yahweh and the splendor of His majesty,When He arises to make the earth tremble.²²¹^,^aStop regarding ²man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils;For ³^,^bwhy should he be esteemed?