1 This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains,
and shall be raised above the hills;
and all nations shall flow to it.
3 Many peoples shall go and say,
"Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh,
to the house of the God of Jacob;
and he will teach us of his ways,
and we will walk in his paths."
For the law shall go out of Zion,
and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.
4 He will judge between the nations,
and will decide concerning many peoples.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more.
5 House of Jacob, come, and let’s walk in the light of Yahweh.
6 For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob,
because they are filled from the east,
with those who practice divination like the Philistines,
and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.
7 Their land is full of silver and gold,
neither is there any end of their treasures.
Their land also is full of horses,
neither is there any end of their chariots.
8 Their land also is full of idols.
They worship the work of their own hands,
that which their own fingers have made.
9 Man is brought low,
and mankind is humbled;
therefore don’t forgive them.
10 Enter into the rock,
and hide in the dust,
from before the terror of Yahweh,
and from the glory of his majesty.
11 The lofty looks of man will be brought low,
the arrogance of men will be bowed down,
and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
12 For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and arrogant,
and for all that is lifted up,
and it shall be brought low—
13 for all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up,
for all the oaks of Bashan,
14 for all the high mountains,
for all the hills that are lifted up,
15 for every lofty tower,
for every fortified wall,
16 for all the ships of Tarshish,
and for all pleasant imagery.
17 The loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
and the arrogance of men shall be brought low;
and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
18 The idols shall utterly pass away.
19 Men shall go into the caves of the rocks,
and into the holes of the earth,
from before the terror of Yahweh,
and from the glory of his majesty,
when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
20 In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver
and their idols of gold,
which have been made for themselves to worship,
to the moles and to the bats,
21 to go into the caverns of the rocks,
and into the clefts of the ragged rocks,
from before the terror of Yahweh,
and from the glory of his majesty,
when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
22 Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils;
for of what account is he?
1 Die woord wat Jesaja, die seun van Amos, gesien het met betrekking tot Juda en Jerusalem.
2 En aan die einde van die dae sal die berg van die huis van die HERE vasstaan op die top van die berge en verhewe wees bo die heuwels, en al die nasies sal daarheen toestroom.
3 En baie volke sal heengaan en sê: Kom laat ons optrek na die berg van die HERE, na die huis van die God van Jakob, dat Hy ons sy weë kan leer en ons in sy paaie kan wandel. Want uit Sion sal die wet uitgaan en die woord van die HERE uit Jerusalem.
4 En Hy sal oordeel tussen die nasies en regspreek oor baie volke; en hulle sal van hul swaarde pikke smee en van hul spiese snoeimesse; nie meer sal nasie teen nasie die swaard ophef nie, en hulle sal nie meer leer om oorlog te voer nie.
5 Kom, huis van Jakob, en laat ons wandel in die lig van die HERE!
6 Want U het u volk verwerp, die huis van Jakob, omdat hulle vol is van wat die Ooste aanbied, en van goëlaars soos die Filistyne, en met die kinders van vreemdes dryf hulle handel.
7 En hulle land is vol silwer en goud, en daar is geen end aan hulle skatte nie; en hulle land is vol perde, en daar is geen end aan hulle strydwaens nie.
8 Ook is hulle land vol afgode; voor die werk van hul hande buig hulle hul neer, voor wat hulle vingers gemaak het.
9 So moet dan die mens neergebuig en die man verneder word; en U moet hulle dit nie vergewe nie.
10 Gaan in die rots en steek jou weg in die grond vanweë die skrik van die HERE en om die heerlikheid van sy majesteit ontwil.
11 Die hoë oë van die mense sal verneder word, en die hoogheid van die manne neergebuig word; en die HERE alleen sal in die dag verhewe wees.
12 Want 'n dag is daar vir die HERE van die leërskare oor al wat trots en hoog is, en oor al wat verhewe is, sodat dit verneder kan word;
13 en oor al die hoë en verhewe seders van die L¡banon en oor al die eikebome van Basan;
14 en oor al die hoë berge en oor al die verhewe heuwels;
15 en oor al die hoë torings en oor al die versterkte mure;
16 en oor al die skepe van Tarsis en oor al die kosbare pronkstukke.
17 Dan sal die hoogheid van die mense neergebuig en die trotsheid van die manne verneder word; en die HERE alleen sal in die dag verhewe wees.
18 En die afgode sal geheel en al verdwyn.
19 En hulle sal gaan in die spelonke van die rotse en in die gate van die grond vanweë die skrik van die HERE en om die heerlikheid van sy majesteit ontwil, as Hy Hom gereed maak om die aarde te verskrik.
20 In die dag sal die mens sy silwerafgode en sy goue afgode wat hy vir hom gemaak het om voor neer te buig, weggooi vir die molle en die vlermuise;
21 om te gaan in die skeure van die rotse en in die klowe van die kranse vanweë die skrik van die HERE en om die heerlikheid van sy majesteit ontwil, as Hy Hom gereed maak om die aarde te verskrik.
22 Laat staan tog die mens wie se asem in sy neus is; want hoe min is hy werd!