Yahweh Will Judge the Nations
The word which aIsaiah the son of Amoz beheld concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Now it will be that
aIn the last days
The bmountain of the house of Yahweh
Will be established as the head of the mountains,
And will be lifted up above the hills;
And call the nations will stream to it.
3 And 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 from His ways
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For afrom Zion the law will go forth
And the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.
4 And He will judge between the nations,
And will render 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
5 Come, ahouse of Jacob, and let us walk in the blight of Yahweh.
6 For 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.
7 Their 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.
8 Their land has also been afilled with idols;
They worship the bwork of their hands,
That which their fingers have made.
9 So 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.
11 The alofty look of man will be made low,
And the bmen made high will be bowed down,
And Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
12 For 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.
13 And it will be against all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up,
Against all the aoaks of Bashan,
14 Against all the ahigh mountains,
Against all the hills that are lifted up,
15 Against every alofty tower,
Against every fortified wall,
16 Against all the aships of Tarshish
And against all the desirable craft.
17 The loftiness of man will be bowed down,
And the men who are high will be made low;
And Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day,
18 But the aidols will completely vanish.
19 Men will ago into caves of the rocks
And into holes of the ground
Before the dread of Yahweh
And the splendor of His majesty,
When He arises bto make the earth tremble.
20 In 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,
21 In 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.
22 aStop regarding man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils;
For bwhy should he be esteemed?