Isaiah 2:5-22 - The Day Of Yahweh

⁵ O house of Jacob, come ye, and we will go in the light of Jehovah. ⁶ For thou didst cast out thy people the house of Jacob, for they were filled from the east, and practicing magic as the rovers, and they will strike hands with the children of strangers. ⁷ And their land shall be full of silver and gold, and no end to their treasures; and their land shall be full of horses, and no end to their chariots. ⁸ And their land will be full of nothings; they will worship to the work of their hand, to what their fingers made: ⁹ And man will bow down, and a man will humble himself, and thou shalt not lift up to them. ¹⁰ Go into the rock, and hide in the dust from the face of the fear of Jehovah, and from the splendor of his majesty. ¹¹ The lofty eyes of man were humbled, and the height of men bowed down, and Jehovah alone was exalted in that day.

¹² For the day to Jehovah of armies is upon all the haughty and the high, and upon all lifted up; and he was humbled: ¹³ And upon all the cedars of Lebanon being high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, ¹⁴ And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills being lifted up, ¹⁵ And upon every lofty tower, and upon every fortified wall, ¹⁶ And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all the flags of desire. ¹⁷ And the haughtiness of man was bowed down, and the height of man was humbled: and Jehovah alone was exalted in that day. ¹⁸ And the nothings he shall cause to wholly pass away.

¹⁹ And they shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the caverns of the dust, from the face of the fear of Jehovah, and from the splendor of his majesty in his rising to terrify the earth. ²⁰ In that day man shall cast the nothings of his silver and the nothings of his gold which they made for him to worship, to the digging of moles and to bats. ²¹ To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the fissures of the rocks from the face of the fear of Jehovah, and from the splendor of his majesty in his rising to terrify the earth. ²² Cease to you from man of whom the breath is in his nose: for in what was he reckoned?

¹⁸ Wo! to you longing for the day of Jehovah; for what this to you? The day of Jehovah this is darkness and not light ¹⁹ According as a man will flee from the face of the lion and the bear struck upon him, and he came into the house and leaned his hand upon the wall, and the serpent bit him. ²⁰ Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness and not light? and dark and no shining to it? ²¹ I hated, I rejected your festivals, and I will not smell in your assemblies. ²² For if ye shall bring up to me burnt-offerirgs, and your gifts, I will not delight; and I will not look upon the peace-offerings of your fatlings. ²³ Remove from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the music of thy lyres. ²⁴ Judgment shall roll as the waters, and justice as a torrent of strength.

²⁵ Did ye bring near to me sacrifices and gifts in the desert forty years, O house of Israel? ²⁶ Ye lifted up the tent of your king and the statue of your images, the star of your God which he made for you. ²⁷ And I caused you to be carried away captive farther off than Damascus, said Jehovah, God of armies his name.

¹ The Lifting up of the word of Jehovah for Israel, says Jehovah, stretching forth the heavens and founding the earth, and forming the spirit of man in the midst of him.

² Behold, I set Jerusalem a dish of reeling to all peoples round about, and against Judah shall he be in the straitness against Jerusalem. ³ And it was in that day I will set Jerusalem a stone of burden to all peoples: all loading her, being out; shall be cut; and all the nations of the earth were gathered together against her.. ⁴ In that day, says Jehovah, I will strike every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and upon the house of Judah I will open mine eyes, and every horse of the peoples I will strike with blindness. ⁵ And the thousands of Judah said in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem strength to me in Jehovah of armies their God. ⁶ In that day I will set the thousands of Judah as a fire-pan of fire among the woods, and as a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they devoured upon the right and upon the left all the peoples round about: and Jerusalem shall yet dwell in her place in Jerusalem. ⁷ And Jehovah saved the tents of Judah first, so that the glorying of the house of David shall not be magnified, and the glorying of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, against Judah. ⁸ In that day Jehovah shall protect about the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he being weak among them in that day was as David; and the house of David as God, as the messenger of Jehovah before them. ⁹ And it was in that day I will seek to destroy all the nations coming against Jerusalem.

¹⁰ And I poured out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplications: and they looked to me whom they pierced, and they mourned for him as mourning for the only begotten, and being embittered for him as being embittered for the first-born. ¹¹ In that day the mourning shall be magnified as the mourning of Hadad-Rimmon in the valley of Megiddon. ¹² And the land mourned, families, families by themselves; the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of giving by itself, and their wives by themselves. ¹³ The family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of hearing by itself, and their wives by themselves. ¹⁴ All the families being left, families, families, by themselves, and their wives by themselves.

¹ In that day shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for putting away. ² And it was in that day, says Jehovah of armies, I will cut off the names of the images from the land, and they shall be remembered no more: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land. ³ And it was if a man shall yet prophesy, and his father and his mother who begat him, said to him, Thou shalt not live, for thou spakest falsehood in the name of Jehovah: and his father and his mother begetting him thrust him through in his prophesying. ⁴ And it was in that day the prophets shall be ashamed, each of his vision, in his prophesying; and they shall not put on a mantle of hair to speak lies: ⁵ And saying, I am not a prophet; I a man working the land; for man sold me from my youth. ⁶ And saying to him, What these wounds between thy hands? And he said, Which I was struck in the house of those loving me.