主必統治萬邦

亞摩斯的兒子以賽亞看到以下有關猶大和耶路撒冷的異象。

在末後的日子,耶和華殿所在的山必聳立,
高過群山,超過萬嶺,
萬族都要湧向它。
眾民都必來,說:
「來吧!讓我們登耶和華的山,
去雅各之上帝的殿。
祂必將祂的路指示給我們,
使我們走祂的道。」
因為訓誨必出於錫安,
耶和華的話語必來自耶路撒冷。
祂必在各國施行審判,
為列邦平息紛爭。
他們必將刀劍打成犁頭,
把矛槍製成鐮刀。
國與國不再刀兵相見,
人們不用再學習戰事。
雅各家啊,來吧!
讓我們走在耶和華的光中。

耶和華審判的日子

耶和華啊,你離棄了你的子民——雅各的後裔,
因為他們當中充滿了東方的惡俗,
像非利士人一樣占卜,
跟外族人同流合污。
他們境內金銀遍地,
財寶無窮;
他們境內馬匹充裕,
戰車無數。
他們境內偶像林立,
他們跪拜自己用手所造的物品,
跪拜自己用指頭所造之物。
他們必遭羞辱和貶抑。
耶和華啊,
求你不要赦免他們。
10 要躲進岩穴,藏入地洞,
逃避耶和華的憤怒和威榮!
11 到那日,狂妄的人將被挫敗,
驕傲的人將遭貶抑;
唯獨耶和華將受尊崇。
12 因為萬軍之耶和華已定了日子,
要懲罰一切驕傲狂妄和自高自大的人,
使他們淪為卑賤;
13 祂必毀滅黎巴嫩高大的香柏樹和巴珊的橡樹,
14 毀滅一切崇山峻嶺,
15 毀滅高聳的城樓和堅固的城牆,
16 毀滅他施的商船和一切華美的船隻。
17 到那日,狂妄的人必被挫敗,
驕傲的人必遭貶抑,
唯獨耶和華受尊崇。
18 偶像必被徹底剷除。
19 耶和華使大地震動的時候,
眾人躲進岩穴,藏入地洞,
逃避祂的憤怒和威榮。
20 到那日,眾人必把造來敬拜的金銀偶像丟給田鼠和蝙蝠。
21 耶和華使大地震動的時候,
眾人必躲進山洞和岩縫,
逃避祂的憤怒和威榮。
22 不要再倚靠世人,
他們的生命不過是一口氣,
他們有什麼值得稱道的呢?

The Message About Jerusalem

Isaiah son of Amoz saw this message about Judah and Jerusalem.

In the last days
the mountain on which the Lord’s Temple stands
    will become the most important of all mountains.
It will be raised above the hills.
    And people from all nations will come streaming to it.
Many nations will come and say,
    “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord.
    Let us go to the Temple of the God of Jacob.
Then God will teach us his ways.
    And we will obey his teachings.”
The Lord’s teachings will go out from Jerusalem.
    The Lord’s message will go out from Jerusalem.
Then the Lord will settle arguments among many nations.
    He will make decisions for strong nations that are far away.
Then the nations will make their swords into plows.
    They will make their spears into hooks for trimming trees.
Nations will no longer fight other nations.
    They will not even train for war anymore.

Come, family of Jacob.
    We should follow the way of the Lord.

A Terrible Day Is Coming

Lord, you have left your people,
    the family of Jacob.
They have become filled with wrong ideas from people in the East.
    Your people try to tell the future like the Philistines.
    They have completely accepted those foreign ideas.
Their land has been filled with silver and gold.
    There are a great many treasures there.
Their land has been filled with horses.
    There are many chariots there.
Their land is full of idols.
    The people worship these idols that they made with their own hands.
    They worship statues shaped by their fingers.
People will not be proud any longer.
    They will bow low with shame.
    God, do not forgive them.

10 Go into the caves of the cliffs.
    Dig holes and hide in the ground.
Hide from the anger of the Lord
    and from his great power!
11 Proud people will stop being proud.
    They will bow low with shame.
At that time only the Lord will still be praised.

12 The Lord of heaven’s armies has a certain day planned.
    On that day he will punish the proud and those who brag.
    They will no longer be important.
13 He will bring down the tall cedar trees from Lebanon.
    He will destroy the great oak trees of Bashan.
14 He will destroy all the tall mountains
    and the high hills.
15 He will knock down every tall tower
    and every high, strong wall.
16 He will sink all the trading ships.
    And he will destroy the beautiful ships.
17 At that time proud people will stop being proud.
    They will bow low with shame.
And at that time only the Lord will be praised.
18     But all the idols will be gone.

19 People will run to caves in the rocky cliffs.
    They will dig holes and hide in the ground.
They will hide from the anger of the Lord
    and his great power.
    They will do this when the Lord stands to shake the earth.
20 At that time people will throw away
    their gold and silver idols.
They made these idols for themselves to worship.
    But they will throw them away to the bats and moles.
21 Then the people will hide in caves
    and cracks in the rocks.
They will hide from the anger of the Lord
    and his great power.
    They will do this when the Lord stands to shake the earth.

22 You should stop trusting in people to save you.
    People are only human.
They aren’t able to help you.