Isaiah 2:5-22 - The Day Of Yahweh

⁵ O family of Jacob, come, and let us go in the light of the Lord. ⁶ For you, O Lord, have given up your people, the family of Jacob, because they are full of the evil ways of the east, and make use of secret arts like the Philistines, and are friends with the children of strange countries. ⁷ And their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no end to their stores; their land is full of horses, and there is no end to their carriages. ⁸ Their land is full of images; they give worship to the work of their hands, even to that which their fingers have made. ⁹ And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face: for this cause there will be no forgiveness for their sin. ¹⁰ Go into a hole in the rock, covering yourselves with dust, in fear of the Lord, before the glory of his power. ¹¹ The high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low, and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.

¹² For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up; ¹³ And on all the high trees of Lebanon, and on all the strong trees of Bashan; ¹⁴ And on all the high mountains, and on all the hills which are lifted up; ¹⁵ And on every high tower, and on every strong wall; ¹⁶ And on all the ships of Tarshish, and on all the fair boats. ¹⁷ And the high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low: and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day. ¹⁸ And the images will never be seen again.

¹⁹ And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength. ²⁰ In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places; ²¹ To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength. ²² Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.

¹⁸ Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark and not light. ¹⁹ As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake. ²⁰ Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it? ²¹ Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings. ²² Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts. ²³ Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut to the melody of your instruments. ²⁴ But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

²⁵ Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel? ²⁶ Truly, you will take up Saccuth your king and Kaiwan your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves. ²⁷ And I will send you away as prisoners farther than Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of armies.

¹ The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said:

² See, I will make Jerusalem a cup of shaking fear to all the peoples round about, when Jerusalem is shut in. ³ And it will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a stone of great weight for all the peoples; all those who take it up will be badly wounded; and all the nations of the earth will come together against it. ⁴ In that day, says the Lord, I will put fear into every horse and make every horseman go off his head: and my eyes will be open on the people of Judah, and I will make every horse of the peoples blind. ⁵ And the families of Judah will say in their hearts, The people of Jerusalem have their strength in the Lord of armies, their God. ⁶ In that day I will make the families of Judah like a pot with fire in it among trees, and like a flaming stick among cut grain; they will send destruction on all the peoples round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem will be living again in the place which is hers, that is, in Jerusalem. ⁷ And the Lord will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the family of David and the glory of the people of Jerusalem may not be greater than that of Judah. ⁸ In that day the Lord will be a cover over the people of Jerusalem; and he who is feeble among them in that day will be as strong as David, and the family of David will be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them. ⁹ And it will come about on that day that I will take in hand the destruction of all the nations who come against Jerusalem.

¹⁰ And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son. ¹¹ In that day there will be a great weeping in Jerusalem, like the weeping of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon. ¹² And the land will give itself to weeping, every family separately; the family of David by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Nathan by themselves, and their wives by themselves; ¹³ The family of Levi by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by themselves, and their wives by themselves; ¹⁴ And all the other families by themselves, and their wives by themselves.

¹ In that day there will be a fountain open to the family of David and to the people of Jerusalem, for sin and for that which is unclean. ² And it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that I will have the names of the images cut off out of the land, and there will be no more memory of them: and I will send all the prophets and the unclean spirit away from the land. ³ And if anyone goes on acting as a prophet, then his father and his mother who gave him life will say to him, You may not go on living, for you are saying what is false in the name of the Lord; and his father and his mother will put a sword through him when he does so. ⁴ And it will come about in that day that the prophets will be shamed, every man on account of his vision, when he is talking as a prophet; and they will not put on a robe of hair for purposes of deceit: ⁵ But he will say, I am no prophet, but a worker on the land; for I have been an owner of land from the time when I was young. ⁶ And if anyone says to him, What are these wounds between your hands? then he will say, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.