Yahweh Will Judge the Nations
The word which aIsaiah the son of Amoz beheld concerning Judah and Jerusalem.Is 1:1
2 Now it will be thataIn the last daysThe bmountain of the house of YahwehWill be established 1as the head of the mountains,And will be lifted up above the hills;And call the nations will stream to it.Lit onMic 4:1-3Is 27:13; 66:20Is 56:73 And many peoples will come and say,“Come, let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh,To the house of the God of Jacob,That He may instruct us 1from His waysAnd that we may walk in His paths.”For afrom Zion the 2law will go forthAnd the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.Or some ofOr instructionIs 51:4, 5; Luke 24:474 And He will judge between the nations,And will 1render decisions for many peoples;And athey will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.bNation will not lift up sword against nation,And never again will they learn war.Or reprove manyIs 32:17, 18; Joel 3:10Is 9:5, 7; 11:6-9; Hos 2:18; Zech 9:10
Yahweh Will Have a Day of Reckoning
5 Come, ahouse of Jacob, and let us walk in the blight of Yahweh.Is 58:1Is 60:1, 2, 19, 20; 1 John 1:56 For You have aabandoned Your people, the house of Jacob,Because they are filled with influences from the east,And they are soothsayers blike the Philistines,And they cstrike bargains with the children of foreigners.Deut 31:172 Kin 1:22 Kin 16:7, 8; Prov 6:17 Their land has also been filled with silver and gold,And there is no end to their treasures;Their land has also been filled with ahorses,And there is no end to their chariots.Deut 17:16; Is 30:16; 31:1; Mic 5:108 Their land has also been afilled with idols;They worship the bwork of their hands,That which their fingers have made.Is 10:11Ps 115:4-8; Is 17:8; 37:19; 40:19; 44:179 So athe common man has been bowed down,And the man of importance has been made low,But bdo not forgive them.Ps 49:2; 62:9; Is 5:15Neh 4:510 aEnter the rock and hide in the dustbFrom the dread of Yahweh and from the splendor of His majesty.Is 2:19, 21; Rev 6:15, 162 Thess 1:911 The 1alofty look of 2man will be made low,And the 3bmen made high will be bowed down,And Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.Lit eyes of the loftiness of manOr common man, cf. 2:9Or men of importance, cf. 2:9Is 5:15; 37:23Ps 18:27; Is 13:11; 23:9; 2 Cor 10:5
12 For Yahweh of hosts will have a day of reckoningAgainst aeveryone who is proud and highAnd against everyone who is lifted up,That he may be made low.Job 40:11, 12; Is 24:4, 21; Mal 4:113 And it will be against all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up,Against all the aoaks of Bashan,Zech 11:214 Against all the ahigh mountains,Against all the hills that are lifted up,Is 40:415 Against every alofty tower,Against every fortified wall,Is 25:1216 Against all the aships of TarshishAnd against all the desirable craft.1 Kin 10:22; Is 23:1, 14; 60:917 The loftiness of 1man will be bowed down,And the 2men who are high will be made low;And Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day,Or common man, cf. 2:9Or men of importance, cf. 2:918 But the aidols will completely vanish.Is 21:9; Mic 1:719 Men will ago into caves of the rocksAnd into holes of the 1groundBefore the dread of YahwehAnd the splendor of His majesty,When He arises bto make the earth tremble.Lit dustIs 2:10Ps 18:7; Is 2:21; 13:13; 24:1, 19, 20; Hag 2:6, 7; Heb 12:2620 In that day men will acast away to the moles and the bbatsTheir idols of silver and their idols of gold,Which they made for themselves to worship,Is 30:22; 31:7Lev 11:1921 In order to ago into the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffsBefore the dread of Yahweh and the splendor of His majesty,When He arises to make the earth tremble.Is 2:1922 1aStop regarding 2man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils;For 3bwhy should he be esteemed?Lit Cease from manOr common man, cf. 2:9Lit in whatPs 146:3; Jer 17:5Ps 8:4; 144:3, 4; Is 40:15, 17; James 4:14