14
They raise their voices, they sing out;
they proclaim in the west
the majesty of the
Lord
.
15
Therefore, in the east honor the
Lord
!
In the islands of the west
honor the name of
•Yahweh
,
the God of Israel.
16
From the ends of the earth we hear songs:
The Splendor of the Righteous One.
But I said, “I waste away! I waste away!
Woe is me.”
The treacherous act treacherously;
the treacherous deal very treacherously.
17
Panic, pit, and trap await you
who dwell on the earth.
18
Whoever flees at the sound of panic
will fall into a pit,
and whoever escapes from the pit
will be caught in a trap.
For the windows are opened from heaven,
and the foundations of the earth are shaken.
19
The earth is completely devastated;
the earth is split open;
the earth is violently shaken.
20
The earth staggers like a drunkard
and sways like a hut.
Earth's rebellion weighs it down,
and it falls, never to rise again.
21
On that day the
Lord
will punish
the host of heaven above
and kings of the earth below.
22
They will be gathered together
like prisoners in a pit.
They will be confined to a dungeon;
after many days they will be punished.
23
The moon will be put to shame
and the sun disgraced,
because the
Lord
of
•Hosts
will reign as king
on Mount
•Zion
in Jerusalem,
and He will display His glory
in the presence of His elders.
Isaiah
Salvation and Judgment on That Day
25
•Yahweh
, You are my God;
I will exalt You. I will praise Your name,
for You have accomplished wonders,
plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.
2
For You have turned the city into a pile of rocks,
a fortified city, into ruins;
the fortress of barbarians is no longer a city;
it will never be rebuilt.
3
Therefore, a strong people will honor You.
The cities of violent nations will
•fear
You.
4
For You have been a stronghold for the poor,
a stronghold for the needy person in his distress,
a refuge from the rain, a shade from the heat.
When the breath of the violent
is like rain against a wall,
5
like heat in a dry land,
You subdue the uproar of barbarians.
As the shade of a cloud cools the heat of the day,
so He silences the song of the violent.
6
The
Lord
of
•Hosts
will prepare a feast
for all the peoples on this mountain —
a feast of aged wine, choice meat, finely aged wine.
7
On this mountain
He will destroy the burial shroud,
the shroud over all the peoples,
the sheet covering all the nations;
8
He will destroy death forever.
The Lord
God
will wipe away the tears
from every face
and remove His people's disgrace
from the whole earth,
for the
Lord
has spoken.
9
On that day it will be said,
“Look, this is our God;
we have waited for Him, and He has saved us.
This is the
Lord
; we have waited for Him.
Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”
10
For the
Lord
's power will rest on this mountain.
But Moab will be trampled in his place
as straw is trampled in a dung pile.
11
He will spread out his arms in the middle of it,
as a swimmer spreads out his arms to swim.
His pride will be brought low,
along with the trickery of his hands.
12
The high-walled fortress will be brought down,
thrown to the ground, to the dust.
Isaiah
The Song of Judah
26
On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
We have a strong city.
Salvation is established as walls and ramparts.
2
Open the gates
so a righteous nation can come in —
one that remains faithful.
3
You will keep the mind that is dependent on You
in perfect peace,
for it is trusting in You.
4
Trust in the
Lord
forever,
because in
•Yah
, the
Lord
, is an everlasting rock!
5
For He has humbled those who live in lofty places —
an inaccessible city.
He brings it down; He brings it down to the ground;
He throws it to the dust.
6
Feet trample it,
the feet of the humble,
the steps of the poor.
God's People Vindicated
7
The path of the righteous is level;
You clear a straight path for the righteous.
8
Yes, Yahweh, we wait for You
in the path of Your judgments.
Our desire is for Your name and renown.
9
I long for You in the night;
yes, my spirit within me diligently seeks You,
for when Your judgments are in the land,
the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
10
But if the wicked man is shown favor,
he does not learn righteousness.
In a righteous land he acts unjustly
and does not see the majesty of the
Lord
.
11
Lord
, Your hand is lifted up to take action,
but they do not see it.
They will see Your zeal for Your people,
and they will be put to shame.
The fire for Your adversaries will consume them!
12
Lord
, You will establish peace for us,
for You have also done all our work for us.
13
Yahweh our God, lords other than You have ruled over us,
but we remember Your name alone.
14
The dead do not live;
departed spirits do not rise up.
Indeed, You have visited and destroyed them;
You have wiped out all memory of them.
15
You have added to the nation,
Lord
.
You have added to the nation; You are honored.
You have expanded all the borders of the land.
16
Lord
, they went to You in their distress;
they poured out whispered prayers
because Your discipline fell on them.
17
As a pregnant woman about to give birth
writhes and cries out in her pains,
so we were before You,
Lord
.
18
We became pregnant, we writhed in pain;
we gave birth to wind.
We have won no victories on earth,
and the earth's inhabitants have not fallen.
19
Your dead will live; their bodies will rise.
Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust!
For you will be covered with the morning dew,
and the earth will bring out the departed spirits.
20
Go, my people, enter your rooms
and close your doors behind you.
Hide for a little while until the wrath has passed.
21
For look, the
Lord
is coming from His place
to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity.
The earth will reveal the blood shed on it
and will no longer conceal her slain.
Isaiah
Leviathan Slain
27
On that day the
Lord
with His harsh, great, and strong sword, will bring judgment on
•Leviathan
, the fleeing serpent — Leviathan, the twisting serpent. He will slay the monster that is in the sea.
The
Lord
's Vineyard
2
On that day
sing about a desirable vineyard:
3
I,
•Yahweh
, watch over it;
I water it regularly.
I guard it night and day
so that no one disturbs it.
4
I am not angry,
but if it produces thorns and briers for Me,
I will fight against it, trample it,
and burn it to the ground.
5
Or let it take hold of My strength;
let it make peace with Me —
make peace with Me.
6
In days to come, Jacob will take root.
Israel will blossom and bloom
and fill the whole world with fruit.
7
Did the
Lord
strike Israel
as He struck the one who struck Israel?
Was he killed like those killed by Him?
8
You disputed with her
by banishing and driving her away.
He removed her with His severe storm
on the day of the east wind.
9
Therefore Jacob's iniquity will be purged in this way,
and the result of the removal of his sin will be this:
when he makes all the altar stones
like crushed bits of chalk,
no
•Asherah
poles or incense altars will remain standing.
10
For the fortified city will be deserted,
pastures abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness.
Calves will graze there,
and there they will spread out and strip its branches.
11
When its branches dry out, they will be broken off.
Women will come and make fires with them,
for they are not a people with understanding.
Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them,
and their Creator will not be gracious to them.
12
On that day
the
Lord
will thresh grain from the Euphrates River
as far as the
•Wadi
of Egypt,
and you Israelites will be gathered one by one.
13
On that day
a great trumpet will be blown,
and those lost in the land of Assyria will come,
as well as those dispersed in the land of Egypt;
and they will worship the
Lord
at Jerusalem on the holy mountain.
Isaiah
Woe to Samaria
28
Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim's drunkards,
and to the fading flower of its beautiful splendor,
which is on the summit above the rich valley.
Woe to those overcome with wine.
2
Look, the Lord has a strong and mighty one —
like a devastating hail storm,
like a storm with strong flooding waters.
He will bring it across the land with His hand.
3
The majestic crown of Ephraim's drunkards
will be trampled underfoot.
4
The fading flower of his beautiful splendor,
which is on the summit above the rich valley,
will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest.
Whoever sees it will swallow it
while it is still in his hand.
5
On that day
the
Lord
of
•Hosts
will become a crown of beauty
and a diadem of splendor
to the remnant of His people,
6
a spirit of justice
to the one who sits in judgment,
and strength
to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
7
These also stagger because of wine
and stumble under the influence of beer:
priest and prophet stagger because of beer,
they are confused by wine.
They stumble because of beer,
they are muddled in their visions,
they stumble in their judgments.
8
Indeed, all their tables are covered with vomit;
there is no place without a stench.
9
Who is he trying to teach?
Who is he trying to instruct?
Infants just weaned from milk?
Babies removed from the breast?
10
For he says: “Law after law, law after law,
line after line, line after line,
a little here, a little there.”
11
So He will speak to this people
with stammering speech
and in a foreign language.
12
He had said to them:
“This is the place of rest,
let the weary rest;
this is the place of repose.”
But they would not listen.