Isaiah's Word on God's Behalf to Judah & Jerusalem |
Isaiah 2:1-22 The Book of Isaiah [in Smaller Chunks] |
The word [about] Judah & Jerusalem, that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw. *And it shall [happen,] in the last days, that the mountains of the Lord's house shall be established [on] the top of the mountains & shall be exalted above the hills. And all nations shall [stream] to it. |
*And many people shall go & say, Come & let's go up to the [Lord's] mountain, to the house of the God, of Jacob, [a.k.a. Israel.] And He will teach us His ways & we will [follow] in His paths. For the Law shall go [forward out] of Zion & the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem. |
And He shall judge among the nations & shall [warn] many people & they shall beat their swords into [blades for plows] & their spears into [pruning saws with a curved blade.] Nation shall not lift up [swords] against nation. Neither shall they learn [how to] war anymore. |
O house of Jacob, [a.k.a. Israel,] come & let's [follow] in the LIght of the Lord. Therefore, You have [abandoned] Your people, the house of Jacob, because they [are] replenished from the East & are [diviners] like the Philistines. [Deuteronomy 18:14 For these nations, [that] you shall possess, [pay attention] to observers of times & diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God, hasn't [allowed] you to do so.] |
And they please themselves in the children of strangers. [Judges 3:5-6 And the children [people] of Israel [lived] among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites & Jebusites. And they took their daughters to be their wives & gave their daughters to their sons & served their gods.] |
Their land is also full of silver & gold. Neither is there any end of their treasures. Their land is also full of horses & neither is there any end of their chariots. Their land is also full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, which their own fingers have made. |
And the man [with low status] bows down & the man [with high status] humbles himself. [Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a Jealous God, visiting the [sins] of the fathers upon the children [until] the 3rd & 4th generation of [those who] hate Me.] |
Therefore, [don't] forgive them. [Go] into the rock & hide [yourself in the dirt,] for fear of the Lord & for the glory of His Majesty. [Revelation 6:15-16 And the kings, the great men, the rich men, the [important leaders] & the mighty men, of the earth & every man [in bondage] & every free man, hid themselves in the dens & in the rocks of the mountains.] |
The [arrogant] looks of man, shall be humbled & the [egotism] of men shall be bowed down. And the Lord, alone, shall be exalted [on] that day. [Philippians 2:9-10 [For this reason,] God has also highly exalted Him & given Him a Name which is above every name: at the Name of Jesus, that every knee should bow, of things in heaven & things on earth & under the earth.] |
For the day of the Lord of Hosts, shall be upon everyone, [who] is proud & [conceited] & upon everyone, [who] is lifted up & he shall be brought low. And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high & lifted up & upon all the oaks of Bashan. |
And upon all the high mountains & all the hills that are lifted up & upon every high tower & upon every fenced wall & upon all the ships of Tarshish & upon all pleasant pictures. |
[Ezekiel 31:10-12 Therefore, the Lord God says [this;] Because you have lifted yourself up in height & his top has shot up among the thick boughs & his heart is lifted up in [its] his height; therefore, I have delivered him into the hand of the [heathen's] mighty one. He shall surely deal with him. I have driven him out, [because of] his wickedness.] |
The terrible of the nations & strangers have cut him off & have left him upon the mountains. And in all the valleys, his branches [have] fallen & his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land. And all the people of the earth [have come] down from his shadow & have left him.] |
And the [pride] of man shall be bowed down & the [arrogance] of men shall be made low. And the Lord, alone, shall be exalted [on] that day. And He shall [totally put an end to] the idols. And they shall go into the holes of the rocks & into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord & for the glory of His majesty, when He arises to shake the earth terribly. |
[Revelation 11:19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven & there was seen in His temple the Ark of His [Covenant] & there [was lightning] & voices & [thundering] & an earthquake & great hail.] |
[On] that day, a man shall [throw away] his idols of silver & his idols of gold, to the moles & bats, which they made each one for himself to worship. [And shall] go into the clefts of the rocks & into the tops of the [jagged] rocks, for fear of the Lord & for the glory of His Majesty, when He arises to terribly shake the earth. |
[Stop yourselves] from [trusting in] man, whose breath is in his nostrils: [in what] is he to be [considered?] [Psalm 146:3-4 [Don't] put your trust in princes, nor in [a human,] the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goes [out] & he returns to his [ground; on] that very day, his thoughts perish.] |