Through My Bible Yr 01 – December 12

Through My Bible – December 12

Isaiah 2 – 4 (EHV)

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² This will take place in the latter days:
The mountain of the Lord’s house will be established
as the chief of the mountains.
It will be raised above the hills,
and all nations will stream to it like a river.
³ 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.
Then he will instruct us about his ways,
and we will walk in his paths.”
For from Zion the law ^[1] will go out,
and the Lord’s word will go out from Jerusalem.
⁴ He will judge between the nations,
and he will mediate for many peoples.
Then they will beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into blades for trimming vines.
Nation will not lift up sword against nation,
nor will they learn war anymore.
⁵ O house of Jacob, come,
and let us walk in the light of the Lord.

⁶ But you, Lord, have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob,
because they are filled up with practices from the East
and with fortune tellers like the Philistines,
and they join themselves to the heathen. ^[2]
7 Their land is full of silver and gold,
and there is no end to their treasures.
Their land is also full of horses,
and there is no end to their chariots.
⁸ Their land is full of gods that are not gods. ^[3]
They worship the work made by their own hands,
things that their own fingers have made.
⁹ Mankind is humbled,
and man is brought low.
Do not forgive them.

¹⁰ Go into the rocks,
and hide in the dust,
from the terror of the Lord
and from the glory of his majesty.
¹¹ The proud eyes of mankind will be brought low,
the arrogance of man will be humbled,
and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
¹² There is a day coming for the Lord of Armies,
a day against everyone who is proud and arrogant,
against everyone who is lifted up—
he will be pressed down—
¹³ against all the cedars of Lebanon, that are so tall and lofty,
against all the oaks of Bashan,
¹⁴ against all the high mountains,
against all the hills that are lifted up,
¹⁵ against every tall tower,
against every fortified wall,
¹⁶ against all the ships of Tarshish, ^[4]
and against all the beautiful ships. ^[5]

¹⁷ The pride of mankind will be humbled,
and the arrogance of man will be brought low.
Then the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
¹⁸ Those gods that are not gods will disappear completely.
¹⁹ People will flee into caves in the rocks
and into holes in the ground,
to hide from the terror of the Lord
and from the glory of his majesty,
when he arises to make the earth tremble.
²⁰ In that day people will throw away to the moles ^[6] and bats
    their worthless gods of silver
    and their worthless gods of gold,
    that they made for themselves to worship.
²¹ They will go into the clefts in the rocks
and into the crevices in the cliffs,
to hide from the terror of the Lord
and from the glory of his majesty,
when he arises to make the earth tremble.

²² Give up trusting in mankind.
All they have is breath in their nostrils.
What are they worth anyway?

Isaiah 3

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Pay attention to this.
    The Lord, the Lord of Armies, is about to remove from Jerusalem
    and Judah
every kind of support:
the entire supply of bread,
and the entire supply of water,
² the hero and the warrior,
the judge and the prophet,
the omen reader and the elder,
³ the commander of fifty and the respected leader,
the adviser and the clever practitioner of occult arts,
and the skillful caster of spells. ^[7]
4 I will give them young men as their officials,
and immature children ^[8] will rule over them.
⁵ The people will tyrannize each other,
man against man, neighbor against neighbor.
The young man will behave arrogantly against the elder,
and the dishonorable against the honorable.

⁸ Yes, Jerusalem has stumbled,
and Judah has fallen,
because their speech and their actions are against the Lord.
They defy his glorious presence. ^[10]
9 The look on their faces testifies against them.
They parade their sin like Sodom.
They do not bother to hide it.
How terrible it will be for them!
Look, they have brought disaster upon themselves.

¹⁰ Tell the righteous that it will go well for them,
and they will eat the fruit of their labors.

¹¹ How terrible it will be for the wicked!
Disaster is coming upon them.
Yes, whatever they have done with their hands will be paid back to them.
¹² As for my people, children will oppress them, ^[11]
and women will rule over them.
My people, your guides are leading you astray.
They are confusing you about the way you should go.
¹³ The Lord stands up to make his case.
He stands to judge the peoples.

²⁴ This is what will take place:
    Instead of fragrant perfumes, there will be a stench,
    instead of styled hair, baldness,
    instead of a robe, a garment made of sackcloth,
    and there will be branding instead of beauty.
²⁵ Your men will fall by the sword,
and your mighty warriors in battle.
²⁶ Her gates will groan and grieve,
and she will sit on the ground, deserted.

Footnotes

1. Isaiah 2:3 Here law refers to the whole word of God.
2. Isaiah 2:6 Literally they clasp [hands] with the children of foreigners. The verse is difficult.
3. Isaiah 2:8 The Hebrew means nothings or mini-gods.
4. Isaiah 2:16 That is, long-distance freighters
5. Isaiah 2:16 Or precious vessels or everything that is beautiful. The Hebrew word translated beautiful ships occurs only here in the Old Testament.
6. Isaiah 2:20 With a different word division: rat holes
7. Isaiah 3:3 The difference between the various kinds of practitioners of occult arts is uncertain.
8. Isaiah 3:4 Or troublemakers
9. Isaiah 3:7 Literally binder of wounds
10. Isaiah 3:8 Literally rebel against the eyes of his glory. Their actions are very brazen.
11. Isaiah 3:12 Or oppressors treat my people cruelly. Literally the sentence reads my people, his oppressors, he deals severely. The word he deals severely may also be read as children. The reading children fits the parallelism and is used above.
12. Isaiah 3:16 Literally with stretched necks
13. Isaiah 3:17 Or expose their nakedness
14. Isaiah 3:23 The precise meaning of many of these terms is uncertain. Translations vary widely.
15. Isaiah 4:2 The Branch is a title of the Messiah.
16. Isaiah 4:4 The Hebrew word refers to vomit and feces.
17. Isaiah 4:4 Or spirit or wind
18. Isaiah 4:5 Literally foundation