Isaiah 2:5-22 - The Day Of Yahweh

⁵ O house of Jacob! come ye and let us walk in the light of Yahweh. ⁶ Therefore hast thou abandoned thy people the house of Jacob, Because they have become full of the And use hidden arts like the Philistines, - And with the children of foreigners, strike hands; - ⁷ So that filled is their land with silver and gold, And there is no end to their treasures, - And filled is theft land with horses, And there is no end to their chariots; ⁸ And filled is their land with idols, - To the work of their own hands, do they bow themselves down, To that which they made with their own fingers. ⁹ So the mean man boweth down And the great man stoopeth low, - Therefore do not thou forgive them! ¹⁰ Enter into the rock, Or hide thee in the dust, - Because of the terribleness of Yahweh, And for his majestic splendour. ¹¹ The lofty looks of mean men, shall be humbled, And, the haughtiness of great men, shall be bowed down, - And Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.

¹² For, a day of Yahweh of hosts, shall be - Upon every one who is high and lofty, - And upon every one who is lifted up, And he shall be brought low; ¹³ And upon all cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, - And upon all the oaks of Bashan; ¹⁴ And upon all the lofty mountains, - And upon all the uplifted hills; ¹⁵ And upon every high tower, - And upon every fortress wall; ¹⁶ And upon all the ships of Tarshish, - And upon all desirable banners. ¹⁷ And the haughtiness of mean men, shall be humbled, - And the loftiness of great men, shall be laid low, - And Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day. ¹⁸ And, the idols, shall wholly pass away;

¹⁹ And they shall enter into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of clay, - Because of the terribleness of Yahweh, And for his majestic splendour, When he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. ²⁰ In that day shall the son of earth cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, - which had been made for him to worship, into the hole of the mice, and to the bats; ²¹ That he may enter into the clefts of the rocks, and into the fissures of the crags, - Because of the terribleness of Yahweh, And for his majestic splendour, When he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. ²² Cease ye from the son of earth, In whose nostrils is but a breath, - For wherein to be reckoned upon, is he?

¹⁸ Alas for them who are longing for the day of Yahweh, - What good to you, is the day of Yahweh? it, being darkness and not light: ¹⁹ As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and there should meet him - a bear! or he should have entered the house, and leaned his hand upon the wall, and there should bite him - a serpent! ²⁰ Shall not the day of Yahweh be, darkness, and not light? yea, thick darkness and no brightness in it? ²¹ I hate, I despise your festivals, - and can scent no fragrance in your solemn feasts. ²² Nay, though ye cause to ascend unto me ascending-sacrifices, and your meal-offerings, I will not accept them , - nor, the peace-offering of your fat heifers, will I regard. ²³ Take thou away from me, the noise of thy songs, - Even the melody of thy harps, will I not hear. ²⁴ But let, justice, roll along like water, - and, righteousness, as a torrent over flowing.

²⁵ The sacrifices and meal-offering, ye brought near unto me, in the desert, for forty years O house of Israel; ²⁶ But ye carried the tent of your king-idol, and your Saturn-images, - the star of your gods, which ye made for yourselves: ²⁷ Therefore will I carry you into exile beyond Damascus, - saith Yahweh, God of hosts, is his name.

¹ The oracle of the word of Yahweh, on Israel, - Declareth Yahweh - Stretching out the heavens, and founding the earth, and fashioning the spirit of man within him:

² Lo! I am making Jerusalem a bowl of reeling to all the peoples, round about, - Moreover also, on Judah, shall it be in the siege against Jerusalem; ³ And it shall come to pass, in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a lifting-stone, to all the peoples, all who seek to lift her, shall, cut themselves in pieces, - though all the nations of the earth, gather themselves together against her. ⁴ In that day, Declareth Yahweh, I will smite every horse with terror, and his rider with madness, - and, over the house of Judah, will I keep opening mine eyes, and, every horse of the peoples, will I smite with blindness. ⁵ Then will the chiefs of Judah say in their hearts, - A strength unto me, would be the inhabitants of Jerusalem, in Yahweh of hosts, their God. ⁶ In that day, will I make the chiefs of Judah like a pan of fire among sticks, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf, so shall they devour, on the right hand and on the left, all the peoples round about; so shall Jerusalem yet, be inhabited, in her own place, as Jerusalem. ⁷ But Yahweh will save the tents of Judah first, - lest the honour of the house of David, and the honour of the inhabitant of Jerusalem, should be magnified over Judah. ⁸ In that day, will Yahweh, throw a covering, around the inhabitant of Jerusalem, so shall the tottering among them, in that day, become like David, - and the house of David - like God, like the messenger of Yahweh, before them. ⁹ And it shall come to pass, in that day, - That I will seek to destroy all the nations, that come against Jerusalem.

¹⁰ But I will pour out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitant of Jerusalem, the spirit of favour, and of supplications, and they will look unto me, whom they have pierced, - and will wail over him, as one waileth over an only son, and will make bitter outcry over him, as one maketh bitter outcry over a firstborn. ¹¹ In that day, will the wailing, be great, in Jerusalem, as the wailing of Hadadrimmon, in the valley of Megiddon; ¹² So shall the land, wail, family by family, apart, - the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart, the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; ¹³ The family of the house of Levi, apart, and their wives apart, the family of Shimei, apart, - and their wives apart: ¹⁴ All the families that remain, family by family, apart, - and their wives, apart.

¹ In that day, there shall be an opened fountain, for the house of David, and for the Inhabitants of Jerusalem, - for sin and for uncleanness. ² And it shall come to pass, in that day, declareth Yahweh of hosts, That I will cut off the names of idols out of the land, and they shall not be remembered any more, - Moreover also, even the prophets and the spirit of impurity, will I cause to pass away out of the land. ³ So shall it come about that, when any man shall prophesy again, then will his own father and his own mother, of whom he was born, say unto him, - Thou shalt not live! For falsehood hast thou spoken in the name of Yahweh, - So will his own father and his own mother of whom he was born, pierce him through, when he prophesieth, ⁴ Yea it shall come to pass, in that day, that the prophets, will turn pale, every man by reason of his vision when he prophesieth, - neither will they put on a mantle of hair to deceive. ⁵ But he will say, No prophet, am I, - One tilling the ground, am I, for, one of the common people, hath owned me from my youth. ⁶ Then will one say unto him, What are these wounds between thy hands? And he will say, Wherewith I was wounded in the house of them who loved me.