The Mountain of the Lord(A)

This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:(B)

In the last days(C)

the mountain(D) of the Lord’s temple will be established
    as the highest of the mountains;(E)
it will be exalted(F) above the hills,
    and all nations will stream to it.(G)

Many peoples(H) will come and say,

“Come, let us go(I) up to the mountain(J) of the Lord,
    to the temple of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us his ways,
    so that we may walk in his paths.”
The law(K) will go out from Zion,
    the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.(L)
He will judge(M) between the nations
    and will settle disputes(N) for many peoples.
They will beat their swords into plowshares
    and their spears into pruning hooks.(O)
Nation will not take up sword against nation,(P)
    nor will they train for war anymore.

Come, descendants of Jacob,(Q)
    let us walk in the light(R) of the Lord.

The Day of the Lord

You, Lord, have abandoned(S) your people,
    the descendants of Jacob.(T)
They are full of superstitions from the East;
    they practice divination(U) like the Philistines(V)
    and embrace(W) pagan customs.(X)
Their land is full of silver and gold;(Y)
    there is no end to their treasures.(Z)
Their land is full of horses;(AA)
    there is no end to their chariots.(AB)
Their land is full of idols;(AC)
    they bow down(AD) to the work of their hands,(AE)
    to what their fingers(AF) have made.
So people will be brought low(AG)
    and everyone humbled(AH)
    do not forgive them.[a](AI)

10 Go into the rocks, hide(AJ) in the ground
    from the fearful presence of the Lord
    and the splendor of his majesty!(AK)
11 The eyes of the arrogant(AL) will be humbled(AM)
    and human pride(AN) brought low;(AO)
the Lord alone will be exalted(AP) in that day.(AQ)

12 The Lord Almighty has a day(AR) in store
    for all the proud(AS) and lofty,(AT)
for all that is exalted(AU)
    (and they will be humbled),(AV)
13 for all the cedars of Lebanon,(AW) tall and lofty,(AX)
    and all the oaks of Bashan,(AY)
14 for all the towering mountains
    and all the high hills,(AZ)
15 for every lofty tower(BA)
    and every fortified wall,(BB)
16 for every trading ship[b](BC)
    and every stately vessel.
17 The arrogance of man will be brought low(BD)
    and human pride humbled;(BE)
the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,(BF)
18     and the idols(BG) will totally disappear.(BH)

19 People will flee to caves(BI) in the rocks
    and to holes in the ground(BJ)
from the fearful presence(BK) of the Lord
    and the splendor of his majesty,(BL)
    when he rises to shake the earth.(BM)
20 In that day(BN) people will throw away
    to the moles and bats(BO)
their idols of silver and idols of gold,(BP)
    which they made to worship.(BQ)
21 They will flee to caverns in the rocks(BR)
    and to the overhanging crags
from the fearful presence of the Lord
    and the splendor of his majesty,(BS)
    when he rises(BT) to shake the earth.(BU)

22 Stop trusting in mere humans,(BV)
    who have but a breath(BW) in their nostrils.
    Why hold them in esteem?(BX)

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 2:9 Or not raise them up
  2. Isaiah 2:16 Hebrew every ship of Tarshish

锡安末后必为万国的中心(A)

亚摩斯的儿子以赛亚得到默示,有关犹大和耶路撒冷:

在末后的日子,

耶和华殿的山,

必被坚立,超乎众山,

必被高举,过于万岭;

万国都要流归这山。

必有多国的人前来,说:

“来吧!我们上耶和华的山,

登雅各 神的殿;

他必把他的道指教我们,

我们也必遵行他的路。”

因为训诲必出于锡安,

耶和华的话必来自耶路撒冷。

他要在列国施行审判,

为多国的人断定是非。

他们必把刀打成犁头,把矛枪打成镰刀。

这国不举刀攻击那国,

他们也不再学习战争。

雅各家啊,来吧!我们要在耶和华的光中行走!

一切偶像全被废弃

耶和华啊!你离弃了你的子民雅各家,

是因为他们充满了东方的迷信,

和占卜的人,像非利士人一样,

并且与外族人击掌交易。

他们的地满了金银,

他们的财宝没有穷尽,

他们的地满了马匹,

他们的车辆也无数。

他们的地满了偶像;

他们敬拜自己双手所做的,

就是他们的指头所做的。

卑贱人向偶像俯首,

尊贵人也降卑,

所以不可饶恕他们。

10 要进入岩洞,藏在泥土中;

躲避耶和华的惊吓和他威严的荣光。

11 到那日,眼目高傲的人必降卑,

性情骄傲的人也必俯首,

唯独耶和华被高举。

12 因为万军之耶和华必有一日,

要攻击一切骄傲的、狂妄的,

和所有高抬自己的,

他们都要降卑。

13 又要攻击黎巴嫩所有高大的香柏树,

和巴珊所有的橡树。

14 又攻击所有的高山,

和所有的峻岭;

15 攻击每一个高台,

和每一道坚固的城墙;

16 攻击所有他施的船只,

和所有美丽的船。

17 人的高傲必变为谦虚,

人的狂妄都必降为卑微,

在那日,唯独耶和华被高举。

18 偶像却必全然消逝。

19 耶和华起来,使大地震动的时候,

人必进入石洞,

进入土穴,

躲避耶和华的惊吓和他威严的荣光。

20 到那日,人必把那些自己所做、

供自己敬拜的金偶像和银偶像,

拋给田鼠和蝙蝠。

21 这样,当耶和华起来,大地震动的时候,

他们就能进入盘石缝中和岩石隙里,

躲避耶和华的惊吓和他威严的荣光。

22 你们不要倚靠世人,

他的鼻孔里只有一口气息,

他实在算得甚么呢?

主の山

ユダ王国とエルサレムについて、主からイザヤに別のことばがありました。

終わりの時代には、
だれもが、一度はエルサレムと神の神殿に
行ってみたいと思うようになります。
世界各地から多くの民が、
主を礼拝しに詰めかけます。
そして彼らは言います。「さあ、主の山へ登ろう。
イスラエルの神の神殿に行くのだ。
そこで主の教えを習おう。
私たちはそれに喜んでお従いしたい。」
その時代になると、
世界の支配権はエルサレムへ移ります。
主が国家間の紛争を解決するのです。
世界中で、武器を平和の道具に作り直します。
その時になって初めて、
いっさいの戦争は終わりを告げ、
いっさいの軍事訓練が不要になるのです。
イスラエルよ、さあ主の光の中を共に歩み、
主の教えに従うのです。

主の日

主はあなたがたを捨てました。
あなたがたがペリシテ人の習慣にならい、
魔術や悪魔礼拝をする東方の外国人を迎えたからです。
イスラエルは金や銀に満ち、
馬や戦車も数知れません。
そのうえ国中に偶像があふれています。
人間が造った像を拝んでいるのです。
地位のある人もない人も、
だれもが偶像を拝んでいます。
こんな罪を、神は決してお赦しになりません。
10 洞穴にもぐり込み、
主のまばゆいばかりの威光から身を隠しなさい。
11 身のほど知らずの思い上がりが、
打ち砕かれる日がきたからです。
たたえられるのはただ主だけです。
12 その日には、天の軍勢の主は
おごり高ぶる者にいどみかかり、
ちりの中でひれ伏させます。
13 レバノンの高くそびえる杉とバシャンの樫の大木は、
難なくへし折られ、
14 すべての高い山と丘も、
15 高い塔と城壁も、
16 誇らしげに波を砕く外航船も
美しく装った内航船も、
その日にはみな、主の前で無残に壊されます。
17 全人類の栄光は輝きを失い、その誇りも地に落ち、
ただ主だけがたたえられるのです。
18 すべての偶像は壊され、影も形もなくなります。
19 主が御座から立ち上がって地を揺るがすとき、
敵どもはおじ気づき、
威光を恐れて洞穴や洞窟に逃げ込みます。
20 その時彼らは、
金や銀で造った偶像をもぐらやこうもりに投げ与えます。
21 こうして崖の上の岩の裂け目に隠れ、
身震いするような主の御姿と、
地を恐怖に陥れる威光から、
少しでも遠ざかろうとするのです。
22 息のようにはかなく、あわれな人間よ。
そんな人間を絶対に信頼してはいけません。

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

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.

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.

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.

O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.

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.

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:

Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

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 ?