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1 The word that Isaias the son of Amos saw, concerning Juda and Jerusalem.
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The word that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it.
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In days to come the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; all the nations shall stream to it.
3 And many people shall go, and say: Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall come forth from Sion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
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Many peoples shall come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge the Gentiles, and rebuke many people: and they shall turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they be exercised any more to war.
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He shall judge between the nations, and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; 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.
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O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!
6 For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob: because they are filled as in times past, and have had soothsayers as the Philistines, and have adhered to strange children.
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For you have forsaken the ways of your people, O house of Jacob. Indeed they are full of diviners from the east and of soothsayers like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with foreigners.
7 Their land is filled with silver and gold: and there is no end of their treasures.
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Their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; their land is filled with horses, and there is no end to their chariots.
8 And their land is filled with horses: and their chariots are innumerable. Their land also is full of idols: they have adored the work of their own hands, which their own fingers have made.
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Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.
9 And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been debased: therefore forgive them not.
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And so people are humbled, and everyone is brought low— do not forgive them!
10 Enter thou into the rock, and hide thee in the pit from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty.
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Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust from the terror of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty.
11 The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be made to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
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The haughty eyes of people shall be brought low, and the pride of everyone shall be humbled; and the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.
12 Because the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and highminded, and upon every one that is arrogant, and he shall be humbled.
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For the Lord of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up and high;
13 And upon all the tall and lofty cedars of Libanus, and upon all the oaks of Basan.
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against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up; and against all the oaks of Bashan;
14 And upon all the high mountains and upon all the elevated hills.
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against all the high mountains, and against all the lofty hills;
15 And upon every high tower, and every fenced wall.
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against every high tower, and against every fortified wall;
16 And upon all the ships of Tharsis, and upon all that is fair to behold.
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against all the ships of Tarshish, and against all the beautiful craft.
17 And the loftiness of men shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
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The haughtiness of people shall be humbled, and the pride of everyone shall be brought low; and the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.
18 And idols shall be utterly destroyed.
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The idols shall utterly pass away.
19 And they shall go into the holes of rocks, and into the caves of the earth from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth.
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Enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from the terror of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.
20 In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats.
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On that day people will throw away to the moles and to the bats their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship,
21 And he shall go into the clefts of rocks, and into the holes of stones from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth.
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to enter the caverns of the rocks and the clefts in the crags, from the terror of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.
22 Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.
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Turn away from mortals, who have only breath in their nostrils, for of what account are they?
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