- The word which came to Esaias the son of Amos concerning Judea,
and concerning Jerusalem.
- For in the last days the mountain of the Lord shall be [a] glorious, and the house of God shall
be on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the
hills; and all nations shall come to it.
- And many nations 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 tell us his way, and we will walk in it: for out of Sion shall go
forth the law, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem.
- And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many
people: and they shall beat their swords into plough-shares, and their
spears into sickles: and nation shall not take up sword against
nation, neither shall they learn to war any more.
- And now, 0 house of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the
light of the Lord.
- For he has forsaken his people the house of Israel, because their
land is filled as at the beginning with divinations, as the
land of the [b] Philistines, and
many strange children were born to them.
- For their land is filled with silver and gold, and there was no
number of their treasures; their land also is filled with horses, and
there was no number of their chariots.
- And the land is filled with abominations, even the works
of their hands; and they have worshipped the works which
their fingers made.
- And the mean man bowed down, and the great man was humbled: and I
will not pardon them.
- Now therefore enter ye into the rocks, and hide yourselves in the
earth, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might,
when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.
- For the eyes of the Lord are high, but man is low; and the
haughtiness of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone shall be
exalted in that day.
- For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is
proud and haughty, and upon every one that is high and towering, and
they shall be brought down;
- and upon every cedar of Libanus, of them that are high and
towering, and upon every oak of Basan,
- and upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill,
- and upon every high tower, and upon every high wall,
- and upon every ship of the sea, and upon every display of fine
ships.
- And every man shall be brought low, and the pride of men shall
fall: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
- And they shall hide all idols made with hands,
- having carried them into the caves, and into the clefts
of the rocks, and into the caverns of the earth, for fear of the Lord,
and [c] by reason of the glory of his
might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.
- For in that day a man shall cast forth his silver and gold
abominations, which they made in order to worship vanities
and bats;
- to enter into the caverns of the solid rock, and into the clefts
of the rocks, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his
might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.
[a] Or, conspicuous.
[b] Or, aliens, see Appendix.
[c] See ver. 10.
[English translation of the Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee
Brenton (1807-1862) originally published by Samuel Bagster & Sons,
Ltd., London, 1851]