Isaiah 2:5-22 - The Day Of Yahweh

⁵ O house of Jacob, come, And we walk in the light of Jehovah.' ⁶ For Thou hast left Thy people, the house of Jacob. For they have been filled from the east, And are sorcerers like the Philistines, And with the children of strangers strike hands. ⁷ And its land is full of silver and gold, And there is no end to its treasures, And its land is full of horses, And there is no end to its chariots, ⁸ And its land is full of idols, To the work of its hands it boweth itself, To that which its fingers have made, ⁹ And the low boweth down, and the high is humbled, And Thou acceptest them not. ¹⁰ Enter into a rock, and be hidden in dust, Because of the fear of Jehovah, And because of the honour of His excellency. ¹¹ The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, And bowed down hath been the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.

¹² For a day is to Jehovah of Hosts, For every proud and high one, And for every lifted up and low one, ¹³ And for all cedars of Lebanon, The high and the exalted ones, And for all oaks of Bashan, ¹⁴ And for all the high mountains, And for all the exalted heights, ¹⁵ And for every high tower, And for every fenced wall, ¹⁶ And for all ships of Tarshish, And for all desirable pictures. ¹⁷ And bowed down hath been the haughtiness of man, And humbled the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day. ¹⁸ And the idols -- they completely pass away.

¹⁹ And men have entered into caverns of rocks, And into caves of dust, Because of the fear of Jehovah, And because of the honour of His excellency, In His rising to terrify the earth. ²⁰ In that day doth man cast his idols of silver, And his idols of gold, That they have made for him to worship, To moles, and to bats, ²¹ To enter into cavities of the rocks, And into clefts of the high places, Because of the fear of Jehovah, And because of the honour of His excellency, In His rising to terrify the earth. ²² Cease for you from man, Whose breath is in his nostrils, For -- in what is he esteemed?

¹⁸ Ho, ye who are desiring the day of Jehovah, Why is this to you -- the day of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light, ¹⁹ As when one fleeth from the face of the lion, And the bear hath met him, And he hath come in to the house, And hath leant his hand on the wall, And the serpent hath bitten him. ²⁰ Is not the day of Jehovah darkness and not light, Even thick darkness that hath no brightness? ²¹ I have hated -- I have loathed your festivals, And I am not refreshed by your restraints. ²² For though ye cause burnt-offerings and your presents to ascend to Me, I am not pleased, And the peace-offering of your fatlings I behold not. ²³ Turn aside from Me the noise of thy songs, Yea, the praise of thy psaltery I hear not. ²⁴ And roll on as waters doth judgment, And righteousness as a perennial stream.

²⁵ Sacrifices and offering did ye bring nigh to Me, In a wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? ²⁶ And ye bare Succoth your king, and Chiun your images, The star of your god, that ye made for yourselves. ²⁷ And I removed you beyond Damascus, Said Jehovah, God of Hosts is His name.

¹ The burden of a word of Jehovah on Israel. An affirmation of Jehovah, Stretching out heaven, and founding earth, And forming the spirit of man in his midst.

² Lo, I am making Jerusalem a cup of reeling To all the peoples round about, And also against Judah it is, In the siege against Jerusalem. ³ And it hath come to pass, in that day, I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone to all the peoples, All loading it are completely pressed down, And gathered against it have been all nations of the earth. ⁴ In that day -- an affirmation of Jehovah, I do smite every horse with astonishment, And its rider with madness, And on the house of Judah I open My eyes, And every horse of the peoples I smite with blindness. ⁵ And leaders of Judah have said in their heart, 'Strength to me are the inhabitants of Jerusalem, In Jehovah of Hosts their God.' ⁶ In that day I make the leaders of Judah As a hearth of fire among trees, And as a torch of fire in a sheaf, And they have consumed -- on the right and on the left -- all the peoples round about, And Jerusalem hath inhabited again her place in Jerusalem. ⁷ And saved hath Jehovah the tents of Judah first, So that become not great against Judah Doth the beauty of the house of David, And the beauty of the inhabitant of Jerusalem. ⁸ In that day cover over doth Jehovah the inhabitant of Jerusalem, And the stumbling among them hath been in that day as David, And the house of David as God -- As a messenger of Jehovah -- before them. ⁹ And it hath come to pass, in that day, I seek to destroy all the nations Who are coming in against Jerusalem,

¹⁰ And I have poured on the house of David, And on the inhabitant of Jerusalem, A spirit of grace and supplications, And they have looked unto Me whom they pierced, And they have mourned over it, Like a mourning over the only one, And they have been in bitterness for it, Like a bitterness over the first-born. ¹¹ In that day, great is the mourning of Jerusalem, As the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon, ¹² And mourned hath the land -- every family apart, The family of the house of David apart, And their women apart; The family of the house of Nathan apart, And their women apart; ¹³ The family of the house of Levi apart, And their women apart; The family of Shimei apart, And their women apart, ¹⁴ All the families that are left, Every family apart, and their women apart!

¹ In that day there is a fountain opened To the house of David And to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, For sin and for impurity. ² And it hath come to pass, in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, I cut off the names of the idols from the land, And they are not remembered any more, And also the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness I cause to pass away from the land. ³ And it hath been, when one prophesieth again, That said unto him have his father and his mother, his parents, 'Thou dost not live, For falsehood thou hast spoken in the name of Jehovah,' And pierced him through have his father and his mother, his parents, in his prophesying. ⁴ And it hath come to pass, in that day, Ashamed are the prophets, each of his vision, in his prophesying, And they put not on a hairy robe to deceive. ⁵ And one hath said, 'I am not a prophet, A man, a tiller of ground I am, For ground is my possession from my youth.' ⁶ And one hath said unto him, 'What are these wounds in thy hands?' And he hath said, 'Because I was smitten at home by my lovers.'