Isaiah 2:5-22 - The Day Of Yahweh

⁵ Come, descendants of Jacob, let us live in the light of Jehovah. ⁶ Jehovah, you have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob, because they are filled with Eastern influences. They practice witchcraft like the Philistines, and they make deals with foreigners. ⁷ Their land is full of silver and gold. There is no limit to their treasures. Their land is also full of horses. There is no limit to their chariots. ⁸ Their land is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made. ⁹ Man has been humbled. Everyman has been humiliated. Do not forgive them. ¹⁰ Go in among the rocks and hide underground because of Jehovah's terrifying presence and the magnificence of his majesty. ¹¹ The arrogant people will be humbled. High and mighty people will be brought down. On that day Jehovah alone will be exalted.

¹² All who are proud will be humbled. Jehovah of Hosts will have his day against all who are arrogant and conceited. ¹³ It will also be against all the towering and mighty cedars of Lebanon and all the oaks of Bashan, ¹⁴ against all the high mountains and all the lofty hills, ¹⁵ against every high tower and every fortified wall, ¹⁶ and also against all the large ships of Tarshish and all the beautiful boats. ¹⁷ Then arrogant people will be brought down. High and mighty people will be humiliated. On that day Jehovah alone will be honored. ¹⁸ Then idols (false gods) will disappear completely.

¹⁹ People will go into caves in the rocks and into holes in the ground because of Jehovah's terrifying presence and the honor of his majesty when he rises to shake the earth. ²⁰ That day people will throw their silver and gold idols, that they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and the bats. ²¹ They will go into caves in the rocks and into cracks in the cliffs because of Jehovah's terrifying presence and the honor of his majesty when he rises to shake the earth. ²² Stop trusting people, whose breath (life) is in their nostrils. How can they be worth anything?

¹⁸ Woe to you who desire the day of Jehovah! What will the day of Jehovah mean to you? It is darkness, and not light. ¹⁹ Like a man who ran from a lion, and a bear met him! So he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. ²⁰ Will the day of Jehovah be darkness with no light? Will it be very dark, and no brightness in it? ²¹ I hate, I despise (reject) your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies. ²² Yes, even if you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them. Neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. ²³ Take the noise of your songs away from me! I will not listen to the melody of your harps. ²⁴ Justice should roll down as waters and righteousness as a mighty stream.

²⁵ Did you bring sacrifices and offerings to me in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel? ²⁶ You have carried the tabernacle of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves. ²⁷ Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity (exile) beyond Damascus, said the God of Hosts, whose name is Jehovah.

¹ The prophetic utterance of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Jehovah declared: Who stretches forth the heavens? Who lays the foundation of the earth? Who forms the spirit of man within him?

² I will make Jerusalem a cup that causes trembling to the people in the nations nearby. Judah will also be attacked when they attack Jerusalem. ³ It will happen in that day! I will make Jerusalem a heavy weight for all the people. All who lift it will be severely injured. All the nations of the earth will gather against her. ⁴ In that day, said Jehovah, I will strike every horse with terror and his rider with madness! I will watch the house of Judah. Every horse of the people will be struck with blindness. ⁵ The people of Judah (including the leaders) will say in their hearts: The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength through Jehovah of Hosts their God. ⁶ I will make the people of Judah like a pan of fire among wood and like a flaming torch among sheaves of grain. They will consume all the peoples on the right hand and on the left all around. The inhabitants of Jerusalem will again dwell in their own place, in Jerusalem. ⁷ Jehovah will save the dwellings of Judah first. The glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah. ⁸ In that day Jehovah will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He that is feeble among them will be like David. For the house of David will be like God, like the angel of Jehovah before them. ⁹ It will happen at that time. I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

¹⁰ I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of kindness and of supplication. They will look to the one whom they pierced; and they will mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son. There will be a bitter lamentation for him, like one who grieves for his first-born. ¹¹ That day will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddon (Megiddo). ¹² And the land will mourn, every family by itself; the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves, the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves. ¹³ The family of the house of Levi will mourn by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by themselves, and their wives by themselves; ¹⁴ All the remaining families and their wives will mourn by themselves.

¹ A fountain for sin and for uncleanness will be opened for the house of David. ² Jehovah of Hosts declared: I will remove the names of the idols from the land! They will no longer be remembered. I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to leave the land. ³ It will happen when any attempt to prophesy, the father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him: You will not live, for you speak lies in the name of Jehovah. They will stab him through when he prophesies. ⁴ It will happen! The prophets, each one of them will be ashamed of his vision and his prophesy. They will not wear a hairy mantle to deceive. ⁵ He will say I am no prophet! I am a tiller of the ground. I have been made a slave from my youth. ⁶ One will ask him: What are these wounds between your arms? He will answer: Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.