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UST ISA Chapter 2

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2 This is the message that Yahweh revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz about Judah and Jerusalem.

2 In the future, the mountain where Yahweh’s temple is

will be the most important place on earth.

It will be as if it is higher than any other mountain or hill.

So many people from many nations will come there,

it will be as if they are a great river flowing there.

3 People from many groups will say to each other,

“Come on, let us go to the mountain where Yahweh is,

to the temple where we can worship the God whom Jacob worshiped.

There Yahweh will teach us how he wants us to live,

and we will obey him.”

Yes, people who go to Mount Zion in Jerusalem

will learn what Yahweh wants them to do,

and they will go from there and teach other people.

4 Yahweh will settle disputes between the people of many nations.

Then those peoples will reshape their implements of war

into implements for farming.

Armies of nations will no longer fight against armies of other nations,

and people will no longer train to be soldiers.

5 You descendants of Jacob, come on,

let us live in the way Yahweh has shown us we should live!

6 Yahweh, you have now abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob,

because they have adopted pagan practices that they have learned from eastern nations.

They also practice divination as the Philistines do,

and they join foreigners in ritually clapping at pagan ceremonies.

7 The descendants of Jacob have great quantities of silver and gold in their land.

It is as if their wealth has no limit.

They also have great quantities of horses in their land,

and it is as if they have more chariots than anyone can count.

8 But they also have great quantities of idols in their land.

They bow down to things that they themselves have made.

9 But Yahweh will humble the common people and their leaders

by making them desperate instead of prosperous.

Yahweh, do not restore them until you have thoroughly corrected them!

10 Yahweh will make you Judeans very afraid

when he demonstrates that he rules with great glory.

You will want to hide in rocky caves

or in holes in the ground to escape from him.

11 Right now the common people and their leaders have a very proud attitude.

But Yahweh will humble those people.

After that, only Yahweh will receive honor.

12 Yahweh, the commander of the heavenly armies, has decided that on a certain day

he will act to humble people who are proud and who think too highly of themselves.

13 He will act against people who seem to be as tall and majestic

as the cedars of Lebanon and the oaks of Bashan.

14 He will act against people who are very proud,

as if they were as high as tall mountains or lofty hills.

15 He will act against people who believe they are safe

because their cities have strong walls and high defensive towers.

16 He will act against people who are proud of their ships that can sail long distances

and of their expensive boats.

17 Right now the common people and their leaders are very proud,

but Yahweh will humble those people.

After that, only Yahweh will receive honor.

18 People will get rid of all of their idols.

19 People will hide in rocky caves

and in holes in the ground

because Yahweh will make them very afraid

when he demonstrates that he rules with great glory.

What he does will terrify the people who live on the earth.

20 When that happens, people will throw away their golden and silver idols

that people crafted so that they could worship them.

They will throw them into holes in the ground where moles live

and into caves where bats live.

21 Then they will crawl into narrow spaces among rocks

because Yahweh will make them very afraid

when he demonstrates that he rules with great glory.

What he does will terrify the people who live on the earth.

22 Stop trusting in human beings.

They are only alive because God breathed life into them.

They are not of great value.