以赛亚书 2
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末日万民必归耶和华殿之山
2 亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚得默示，论到犹大和耶路撒冷。
2 末后的日子，耶和华殿的山必坚立超乎诸山，高举过于万岭，万民都要流归这山。 3 必有许多国的民前往，说：“来吧！我们登耶和华的山，奔雅各神的殿。主必将他的道教训我们，我们也要行他的路，因为训诲必出于锡安，耶和华的言语必出于耶路撒冷。” 4 他必在列国中施行审判，为许多国民断定是非。他们要将刀打成犁头，把枪打成镰刀。这国不举刀攻击那国，他们也不再学习战事。
5 雅各家啊，来吧，我们在耶和华的光明中行走！ 6 耶和华，你离弃了你百姓雅各家，是因他们充满了东方的风俗，做观兆的，像非利士人一样，并与外邦人击掌。 7 他们的国满了金银，财宝也无穷；他们的地满了马匹，车辆也无数。 8 他们的地满了偶像，他们跪拜自己手所造的，就是自己指头所做的。 9 卑贱人屈膝，尊贵人下跪，所以不可饶恕他们。 10 你当进入岩穴，藏在土中，躲避耶和华的惊吓和他威严的荣光。 11 到那日，眼目高傲的必降为卑，性情狂傲的都必屈膝，唯独耶和华被尊崇。
耶和华独见崇高
12 必有万军耶和华降罚的一个日子，要临到骄傲狂妄的，一切自高的都必降为卑； 13 又临到黎巴嫩高大的香柏树和巴珊的橡树； 14 又临到一切高山的峻岭； 15 又临到高台和坚固城墙； 16 又临到他施的船只，并一切可爱的美物。 17 骄傲的必屈膝，狂妄的必降卑，在那日，唯独耶和华被尊崇。
偶像全被废弃
18 偶像必全然废弃。 19 耶和华兴起使地大震动的时候，人就进入石洞，进入土穴，躲避耶和华的惊吓和他威严的荣光。 20 到那日，人必将为拜而造的金偶像、银偶像抛给田鼠和蝙蝠。 21 到耶和华兴起使地大震动的时候，人好进入磐石洞中和岩石穴里，躲避耶和华的惊吓和他威严的荣光。 22 你们休要倚靠世人，他鼻孔里不过有气息，他在一切事上可算什么呢？
Isaiah 2
Easy-to-Read Version
God’s Message to Judah and Jerusalem
2 Isaiah son of Amoz received this message about Judah and Jerusalem.
2 In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s Temple
will be the highest of all mountains.
It will be raised higher than the hills.
There will be a steady stream of people from all nations going there.
3 People from many places will go there and say,
“Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the Temple of the God of Jacob.
Then God will teach us his way of living,
and we will follow him.”
His teaching, the Lord’s message, will begin in Jerusalem on Mount Zion
and will go out to all the world.
4 Then God will act as judge to end arguments between nations.
He will decide what is right for people from many lands.
They will stop using their weapons for war.
They will hammer their swords into plows
and use their spears to make tools for harvesting.
All fighting between nations will end.
They will never again train for war.
5 Family of Jacob, let us follow the Lord.
6 Family of Jacob, you have abandoned your people. This is clear because they have been filled with bad influences from the East,[a] and now your people try to tell the future like the Philistines. They have completely accepted those strange ideas. 7 Jacob’s land has been filled with silver and gold from other places. There are many treasures there. His land has been filled with horses and many chariots. 8 His land is full of gods that the people bow down to worship. They made those idols themselves. 9 The people have become worse and worse. They have become very low, and you leaders did nothing to lift them up![b]
10 You should be afraid of the Lord! Go hide in the dirt and behind the rocks. Hide from his glorious power!
11 Proud people will stop being proud. They will bow down to the ground with shame, and only the Lord will still stand high.
12 The Lord All-Powerful has a special day planned when he will punish the proud and boastful people. They will be brought down. 13 They might be like the tall cedar trees from Lebanon or the great oak trees from Bashan, but they will be cut down. 14 They might be like the tall mountains and high hills 15 or like the tall towers and high walls, but they will be brought down. 16 They might be like great ships from Tarshish,[c] filled with such wonderful cargo, but they will be brought down.
17 At that time those proud people will fall. They will bow low to the ground, and only the Lord will stand high. 18 All the idols will be gone. 19 People will go into the holes in the ground and the cracks in the rocks because they fear the Lord and his great power as he stands to shake the earth.
20 At that time people will throw away their idols they made from gold and silver. They made these statues to worship, but they will throw them into holes in the ground where bats and moles live. 21 They will go down into cracks in the rocks and boulders because they are afraid of the Lord and his glorious power as he stands to shake the earth.
22 Stop trusting other people to save you. Do not think too highly of them; they are only humans who have not stopped breathing yet.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 2:6 East This usually refers to the area around Babylon.
- Isaiah 2:9 They … up Or “The people have become very low. Surely you will not forgive them!”
- Isaiah 2:16 ships from Tarshish This is probably a special type of cargo ship.
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