KJ3 Literal Translation
Isaiah 2
Isaiah prophesies the coming of Christ's kingdom. He exhorts to fear, because of the powerful effects of Jehovah's majesty.
1The Word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:
2And it shall be in the last days, the mountain of the house of Jehovah shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow into it.
3And many peoples shall go and say, Come and let us go up to the mount of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob. And He will teach us from His ways, and we will walk in His paths. For out of Zion the Law will go forth, and the Word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.
4And He shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many peoples. And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning knives. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, and they shall not learn war any more.
5O house of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of Jehovah.
6For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, and are spirit-knowers like the Philistines. And they clap hands with children of those being foreign.
7And his land is filled with silver and gold. There is no end of his treasures. And his land is full of horses; his chariots also do not have an end.
8And his land is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.
9And man bowed down; and man was humbled, but You do not lift them up.
10Enter into the rock and hide in the dust from fear of Jehovah, and from the glory of His majesty.
11The haughtiness of eyes of man shall be humbled, and the pride of men shall be bowed down; but Jehovah, He alone, will be exalted in that day.
12For the day of Jehovah of Hosts shall be on all the proud ones and those exalted, and on all that is lifted up; and it will be abased;
13and against all Lebanon's cedars, high and lifted up; and against all the oaks of Bashan;
14and against all the high mountains; and against all the lifted up hills;
15and against every tall tower; and against every fortified wall;
16and against all the ships of Tarshish; and on all ships of desire .
17And the pride of man shall be humbled; and the haughtiness of men shall be abased; and Jehovah alone will be exalted in that day.
18And the idols shall completely vanish.
19And they shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, for dread of Jehovah, and from the glory of His majesty; when He rises up to make the earth tremble.
20In that day a man shall cast out his silver, and his golden idols which they made for him to worship to the hole of the burrowers and to the bats;
21to go into the crevices of the rocks, and into the clefts of the cliffs, from the dread of Jehovah, and from the glory of His majesty; when He rises up to make the earth tremble.
22Cease yourself from man, whose breath is in his nostril, for in what is he to be esteemed?
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