Esajas 2
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Om det fremtidige fredsrige
2 Her er endnu et budskab, som Herren gav Esajas om Judas folk og Jerusalems fremtid:
2 Det skal ske i de sidste dage,
at Herrens tempelbjerg bliver verdens knudepunkt.
Folk fra alverdens lande vil strømme derhen.
3 „Lad os rejse til Herrens bjerg,” vil de sige.
„Lad os tage hen til Israels Guds bolig,
så vi kan lære hans vilje at kende
og følge hans vejledninger,
for den sande lære kommer fra Zion,
Herrens ord udgår fra Jerusalem.”
4 Herren vil afgøre folkenes stridigheder
og være dommer for fjerne stormagter.
Da vil de smede deres sværd om til plovskær
og omdanne deres spyd til vingårdsknive.
Landene vil holde op med at bekrige hinanden,
og alt militær bliver overflødigt.
5 Kom, Israels folk, lad os leve i lyset af Herrens ord!
En advarsel om fremtidig dom
6 Herre, du har forladt dit folk, Jakobs efterkommere, for de har overtaget Østens mystik og filistrenes trolddomskunst. De er gået i forbund med de fremmede. 7-8 Landet er fyldt med afguder, som de tilbeder, skønt de selv har lavet dem. De har overflod af sølv og guld, utrolige skatte og utallige heste og stridsvogne. 9 Men de skal ydmyges og bøjes i støvet. Du kan ikke acceptere den slags utroskab.
10 Flygt ind i klippehuler, Israels folk, skjul jer i kløfter af skræk for Herren, af angst for hans vældige magt og herlighed. 11 De stolte må slå blikket ned, de hovmodige bøje deres hoveder. Herren alene tilkommer al ære. 12 En dag vil Herren, den Almægtige, straffe alle, der er stolte og overlegne, han vil ydmyge alt, hvad der knejser. 13 Libanons cedertræer skal segne, Bashans ege skal styrte om. 14 Herren vil udjævne de høje fjelde og knejsende bjergtoppe, 15 vælte de høje tårne og stejle mure, 16 ødelægge de store handelsskibe og prægtige fartøjer. 17 Stolte mennesker skal bøjes, de hovmodige skal ydmyges. Herren alene skal stå oprejst på den dag. 18 Alle afguder skal tilintetgøres.
19-21 Den dag Herren rejser sig fra sin trone for at ryste jorden, vil folk flygte ind i klippehuler og skjule sig i kløfter af skræk for Herren, for hans vældige magt og herlighed. Og deres afguder, som de lavede af guld og sølv, og som de tilbad, må de overlade til muldvarpe og flagermus.
22 Sæt ikke jeres lid til mennesker. Deres liv er så kort som et åndedrag. Hvad kan de hjælpe?
Isaiah 2
King James Version
2 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.
6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also 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 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty.
11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
12 For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?
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