1 The message that Amoz’s son Isaiah received a2:1 Lit. observed concerning Judah and Jerusalem: ISV — Isaiah 2:1
2 “It will come about in the last days that the mountain that is the LORD’s Temple will be established as the highest of mountains, b2:2 So 4QIsae MT LXX; 1QIsaa lacks of mountains and will be raised above the hills; all the nations will stream to c2:2 Or will flow over; so 1QIsaa LXX; 4QIsae 4QIsaf MT LXX read will travel to; cf. Mic 4:1 it. ISV — Isaiah 2:2
3 Many groups of people d2:3 Lit. Many peoples will come, commenting, “Come! Let’s go up to e 2:3 So 1QIsaa 4QIsaf; 4QIsae MT read to the LORD’s mountain, to the Temple of the God of Jacob, that they f2:3 So 1QIsaa; cf. LXX, Mic 4:2; 4QIsae MT LXX read he may teach us his ways. Then let’s walk in his paths.” “Instruction g2:3 Or For the law will proceed from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. ISV — Isaiah 2:3
4 He will judge between the nations, and will render verdicts h2:4 Or judgment for the benefit of many. i2:4 Lit. many peoples “They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nations will not raise swords against nations, and they will not learn warfare anymore. ISV — Isaiah 2:4
5 “You house of Jacob! Come! Let’s live j2:5 Lit. walk in the LORD’s light. ISV — Isaiah 2:5
6 For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with practices learned k2:6 1QIsaa MT lack with practices learned from the East and they are fortune-tellers like the Philistines. They cut deals l2:6 Lit. They shake hands with foreigners. m2:6 Lit. with descendants of foreigners ISV — Isaiah 2:6
7 Their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; their land is filled with horses, and there is no end to their chariots. ISV — Isaiah 2:7
8 Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made. ISV — Isaiah 2:8
9 “So mankind is humbled, each human being is brought low, and n2:9 So 1QIsaa 4QIsab; the Heb. lacks and you won’t forgive.” o2:9 So 1QIsaa 4QIsab; MT reads forgive them ISV — Isaiah 2:9
10 p2:10 This v. is missing from 1QIsaa “Go into the rocks! Hide in the dust to escape q2:10 Lit. from the terror of the LORD and to escape r2:10 Lit. and from the glory of his majesty! s2:10 So MT ISV — Isaiah 2:10
11 The t2:11 Lit. And the haughty looks of mankind will be brought low, u:11 1QIsaa MT LXX read mankind are low the lofty pride of human beings will be humbled, and the LORD alone will be exalted at that time. v2:11 Lit. in that day ISV — Isaiah 2:11
12 “For the LORD of the Heavenly Armies has reserved w2:12 1QIsaa MT LXX lack reserved a time x 2:12 Lit. day to oppose y2:12 Lit. against all who are proud and haughty, and the z2:12 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read oppose all of the self-exalting— they will be humbled. ISV — Isaiah 2:12
13 He will take his stand aa2:13 DSS MT LXX lack He will take his stand against all the cedars bb2:13 i.e. a genus of coniferous evergreen in the family Pinaceae; and so throughout the book of Lebanon, against the proud and self-exalting; and against all the oaks of Bashan; ISV — Isaiah 2:13
14 against all the high mountains, and against all the lofty hills; ISV — Isaiah 2:14
15 against every high tower, and against every fortified wall; ISV — Isaiah 2:15
16 against all the ships from Tarshish, and against all their impressive watercraft. ISV — Isaiah 2:16
17 “Humanity’s haughtiness will be humbled, male arrogance will be brought low, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day. ISV — Isaiah 2:17
18 Their cc2:18 DSS MT LXX lack Their idols will utterly vanish. dd2:18 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads He will abolish the idols ISV — Isaiah 2:18
19 “They will enter caverns in the rocks and holes in the ground to escape ee2:19 Lit. from the presence of the terror of the LORD, to escape ff2:19 Lit. from the splendor of his majesty when he arises to terrify the earth. ISV — Isaiah 2:19
20 At that time, gg2:20 Lit. day mankind will throw their silver and gold idols hh2:20 Lit. silver idols and gold idols that their fingers have made ii2:20 So 1QIsaa; MT reads that they made for themselves; LXX reads that they made as objects of worship to the moles and to the bats. ISV — Isaiah 2:20
21 They will enter caverns in the rocks and clefts in the cliffs, to escape jj2:21 Lit. from the terror of the LORD and to escape kk2:21 Lit. from the splendor of his majesty, when he arises to terrorize the earth. ISV — Isaiah 2:21
22 “Stop trusting in human beings, whose life breath is in their nostrils, for what are they ll2:22 Lit. what is he really worth?” mm2:22 LXX lacks this verse ISV — Isaiah 2:22