Lexham English Bible

Isaiah 2:4-13 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

4. He shall judge between the nations and he shall arbitrate for many peoples. They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks. A nation shall not lift up a sword against a nation, and they shall not learn war again.

5. House of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.

6. For you have forsaken your people, house of Jacob, because they are full from the east, and of soothsayers like the Philistines, and they make alliances with the offspring of foreigners.

7. And its land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to its treasures; and its land is filled with horses, and there is no end to its chariots.

8. Its land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what they made with their fingers.

9. So humanity is humbled; everyone is humbled, and you must not forgive them.

10. Enter into the rock and hide yourself in the dust from the presence of the terror of Yahweh and from the glory of his majesty.

11. The haughty eyes of humanity will be brought low, and the pride of everyone will be humbled, and Yahweh alone will be exalted on that day.

12. For there is a day for Yahweh of hosts against all of the proud and the lofty and against all that is lifted up and humble,

13. and against all the lofty and lifted up cedars of Lebanon, and against all the large trees of Bashan,