Isaiah 2

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

² It wil happen in the final days that the mountain of Yahweh's house wil rise higher than the mountainsand tower above the heights. Then al the nations will stream to it,

³ many peoples will come to it and say, 'Come, let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house ofthe God of Jacob that he may teach us his ways so that we may walk in his paths.' For the Law wil issue fromZion and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.

⁴ Then he wil judge between the nations and arbitrate between many peoples. They wil hammer theirswords into ploughshares and their spears into sickles. Nation wil not lift sword against nation, no longer wilthey learn how to make war.

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

⁶ You have rejected your people, the House of Jacob, for it has long been ful of sorcerers like thePhilistines, and is overrun with foreigners.

⁷ The country is ful of silver and gold and treasures unlimited, the country is ful of horses, its chariots areunlimited;

⁸ the country is full of idols. They bow down before the work of their hands, before what their own fingershave made.

⁹ Human nature has been humbled, humankind brought low: do not raise them again!

¹⁰ Go into the rock, hide in the dust, in terror of Yahweh, at the bril iance of his majesty, when he arises tomake the earth quake.

¹¹ Human pride wil lower its eyes, human arrogance will be humbled, and Yahweh alone wil be exalted,on that day.

¹² That wil be a day for Yahweh Sabaoth, for all who are majestic and haughty, for al who are proud, tobe brought low,

¹³ for all the cedars of Lebanon, high and proud, and for al the oaks of Bashan;

¹⁴ for all the high mountains and for al the proud hil s;

¹⁵ for every lofty tower and for every towering wal ;

¹⁶ for all the ships of Tarshish and for everything held precious.

¹⁷ Human pride wil be humbled, human arrogance brought low, and Yahweh alone wil be exalted, on thatday.

¹⁸ When the idols al disappear,

¹⁹ they wil go into the caverns of the rocks and into the fissures of the earth in terror of Yahweh, at thebrilliance of his majesty, when he arises to make the earth quake.

²⁰ That day, people wil fling to moles and bats the silver idols and golden idols which have been made forthem to worship,

²¹ and go into the crevices of the rocks and the clefts in the cliffs, in terror of Yahweh, at the brilliance ofhis majesty, when he arises to make the earth quake.

²² Have no more to do with humankind, which has only the breath in its nostrils. How much is this worth?