Isaiah

The Mountain of the House of the LORD

1This is the message that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem:

2In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORDwill be established as the chief of the mountains;it will be raised above the hills,and all nations will stream to it.

3And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,to the house of the God of Jacob.He will teach us His waysso that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion,and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

4Then He will judge between the nationsand arbitrate for many peoples.They will beat their swords into plowsharesand their spears into pruning hooks.Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation,nor train anymore for war.

The Day of Reckoning

5Come, O house of Jacob,let us walk in the light of the LORD.

6For You have abandoned Your people,the house of Jacob,because they are filledwith influences from the east;they are soothsayers like the Philistines;they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

7Their land is full of silver and gold,with no limit to their treasures;their land is full of horses,with no limit to their chariots.

8Their land is full of idols;they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.

9So mankind is brought low,and man is humbled— do not forgive them!

10Go into the rocksand hide in the dustfrom the terror of the LORDand the splendor of His majesty.

11The proud look of man will be humbled,and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

12For the Day of the LORD of Hostswill come against all the proud and lofty,against all that is exalted—it will be humbled—

13against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up,against all the oaks of Bashan,

14against all the tall mountains,against all the high hills,

15against every high tower,against every fortified wall,

16against every ship of Tarshish,and against every stately vessel.

17So the pride of man will be brought low,and the loftiness of men will be humbled;the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,

18and the idols will vanish completely.

19Men will flee to caves in the rocksand holes in the ground,away from the terror of the LORDand from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

20In that day men will cast awayto the moles and batstheir idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.

21They will flee to caverns in the rocksand crevices in the cliffs,away from the terror of the LORDand from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

22Put no more trust in man,who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

1Đây là điều mà ông I-sai-a, con ông A-mốc, đã được thấy về Giu-đa và Giê-ru-sa-lem.

2Dân dân lũ lượt đưa nhau tới,

3lời ĐỨC CHÚA phán truyền.

4và thiên hạ thôi học nghề chinh chiến.

5ta cùng đi, nhờ ánh sáng ĐỨC CHÚA soi đường !

6họ thoả hiệp với người ngoại quốc.

7chiến xa thì vô số.

8trước những vật ngón tay họ làm thành.

9xin Chúa cũng đừng dung tha.

10tránh oai phong lẫm liệt của Người.

11trong ngày đó, chỉ một mình ĐỨC CHÚA được suy tôn.

12trị tất cả những gì tự cao tự đại : chúng sẽ bị hạ xuống ;

13và mọi cây sồi xứ Ba-san,

14và mọi ngọn đồi vươn cao,

15và mọi tường luỹ kiên cố,

16và mọi du thuyền lộng lẫy.

17ngày đó, chỉ một mình ĐỨC CHÚA được suy tôn.

18Các tà thần sẽ đồng loạt biến đi.

19khi Người đứng lên làm cho đất hãi hùng.

20mà họ đã làm ra để thờ.

21khi Người đứng lên làm cho đất hãi hùng.

22họ chỉ có hơi thở trong lỗ mũi, có gì đáng giá đâu !