Yeshayahu - Chapter 2

1. The word that Isaiah, son of Amoz, prophesied concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

2. And it shall be at the end of the days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be firmly established at the top of the mountains, and it shall be raised above the hills, and all the nations shall stream to it.

3. And many peoples shall go, and they shall say, "Come, let us go up to the Lord's mount, to the house of the God of Jacob, and let Him teach us of His ways, and we will go in His paths," for out of Zion shall the Torah come forth, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

4. And he shall judge between the nations and reprove many peoples, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift the sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

5. "O house of Jacob, come and let us go in the light of the Lord."

6. For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, for they are full of [witchcraft] from the East and soothsayers like the Philistines, and with children of gentiles they please themselves.

7. And his land became full of silver and gold, without end to his treasures; and his land became full of horses, without end to his chariots.

8. And his land is full of idols; to the work of his hands he prostrates himself, to that which his fingers made.

9. And man has become bowed down, and man has become humble, and You shall not forgive them.

10. Come into the rock and hide in the dust, because of fear of the Lord and because of the splendor of His pride.

11. The haughty eyes of man will be humbled, and the height of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted on that day.

12. For the Lord of Hosts has a day over everyone proud and high, and over everyone exalted, and he shall become humble.

13. And over all the cedars of the Lebanon, high and exalted, and over all the oaks of the Bashan;

14. And over all the high mountains and over all the exalted hills;

15. And over every lofty tower and over every fortified wall;

16. And over all the ships of Tarshish and over all coveted floors.

17. And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the Lord alone shall be exalted on that day.

18. And the idols shall completely pass away.

19. And they shall come into the caves of the rocks and into the hollows of the earth, because of the fear of the Lord and because of the splendor of His pride, when He rises to break the earth.

20. On that day, man will cast away his silver idols and his gold idols, which they made for him, [before which] to prostrate himself to moles and to bats.

21. To come into the clefts of the rocks and the hollows of the cliffs, because of the fear of the Lord and because of the splendor of His pride, when He rises to break the earth.

22. Withdraw yourselves from man whose breath is in his nostrils, for in what merit is he to be esteemed?