The Tanach, with the evidence built in
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Chapter 2
1The word that Isaiah son of Amoz prophesied concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2In the days to come,The Mount of the LORD’s HouseShall stand firm above the mountainsAnd tower above the hills;And all the nationsShall gaze on it with joy.
3And the many peoples shall go and say:“Come,Let us go up to the Mount of the LORD,To the House of the God of Jacob;That He may instruct us in His ways,And that we may walk in His paths.”For instruction shall come forth from Zion,The word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4Thus He will judge among the nationsAnd arbitrate for the many peoples,And they shall beat their swords into plowsharesAnd their spears into pruning hooks:Nation shall not take upSword against nation;They shall never again know war.
5O House of Jacob!Come, let us walkBy the light of the LORD.
6For you have forsaken [the ways of] your people,O House of Jacob!For they are full [of practices] from the East,And of soothsaying like the Philistines;They abound in customs of the aliens.
7Their land is full of silver and gold,There is no limit to their treasures;Their land is full of horses,There is no limit to their chariots.
8And their land is full of idols;They bow down to the work of their hands,To what their own fingers have wrought.
9But man shall be humbled,And mortal brought low—Oh, do not forgive them!
10Go deep into the rock,Bury yourselves in the ground,Before the terror of the LORDAnd His dread majesty!
11Man’s haughty look shall be brought low,And the pride of mortals shall be humbled.None but the LORD shall beExalted in that day.
12For the LORD of Hosts has ready a dayAgainst all that is proud and arrogant,Against all that is lofty—so that it is brought low:
13Against all the cedars of Lebanon,Tall and stately,And all the oaks of Bashan;
14Against all the high mountainsAnd all the lofty hills;
15Against every soaring towerAnd every mighty wall;
16Against all the ships of TarshishAnd all the gallant barks.
17Then man’s haughtiness shall be humbledAnd the pride of man brought low.None but the LORD shall beExalted in that day.
18As for idols, they shall vanish completely.
19And men shall enter caverns in the rockAnd hollows in the ground—Before the terror of the LORDAnd His dread majesty,When He comes forth to overawe the earth.
20On that day, men shall fling away,To the flying foxes and the bats,The idols of silverAnd the idols of goldWhich they made for worshiping.
21And they shall enter the clefts in the rocksAnd the crevices in the cliffs,Before the terror of the LORDAnd His dread majesty,When He comes forth to overawe the earth.
22Oh, cease to glorify man,Who has only a breath in his nostrils!For by what does he merit esteem?
Translation: Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures (Jewish Publication Society, 1985), via Sefaria, used under CC BY-NC.
Paragraph divisions follow the Masoretic text (Miqra according to the Masorah, CC BY-SA).