Isaiah 2 - 3 - Legacy Standard Bible

Isaiah 2 - 3

Yahweh Will Judge the Nations

The word which Isaiah the son of Amoz beheld concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2

Now it will be that

In the last days

The mountain of the house of Yahweh

Will be established as the head of the mountains,

And will be lifted up above the hills;

And all the nations will stream to it.

And many peoples will come and say,

“Come, let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh,

To the house of the God of Jacob,

That He may instruct us from His ways

And that we may walk in His paths.”

For from Zion the law will go forth

And the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.

And He will judge between the nations,

And will render decisions for many peoples;

And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.

Nation will not lift up sword against nation,

And never again will they learn war.

Yahweh Will Have a Day of Reckoning

Come, house of Jacob, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.

For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob,

Because they are filled with influences from the east,

And they are soothsayers like the Philistines,

And they strike bargains with the children of foreigners.

Their land has also been filled with silver and gold,

And there is no end to their treasures;

Their land has also been filled with horses,

And there is no end to their chariots.

Their land has also been filled with idols;

They worship the work of their hands,

That which their fingers have made.

So the common man has been bowed down,

And the man of importance has been made low,

But do not forgive them.

Enter the rock and hide in the dust

From the dread of Yahweh and from the splendor of His majesty.

The lofty look of man will be made low,

And the men made high will be bowed down,

And Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

For Yahweh of hosts will have a day of reckoning

Against everyone who is proud and high

And against everyone who is lifted up,

That he may be made low.

And it will be against all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up,

Against all the oaks of Bashan,

Against all the high mountains,

Against all the hills that are lifted up,

Against every lofty tower,

Against every fortified wall,

Against all the ships of Tarshish

And against all the desirable craft.

The loftiness of man will be bowed down,

And the men who are high will be made low;

And Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day,

But the idols will completely vanish.

Men will go into caves of the rocks

And into holes of the ground

Before the dread of Yahweh

And the splendor of His majesty,

When He arises to make the earth tremble.

In that day men will cast away to the moles and the bats

Their idols of silver and their idols of gold,

Which they made for themselves to worship,

In order to go into the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs

Before the dread of Yahweh and the splendor of His majesty,

When He arises to make the earth tremble.

Stop regarding man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils;

For why should he be esteemed?

Yahweh Will Judge Judah’s Leaders

For behold, the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, is going to remove from Jerusalem and Judah

Both supply and support, the whole supply of bread

And the whole supply of water,

The mighty man and the man of war,

The judge and the prophet,

The diviner and the elder,

The commander of fifty and the highly respected man,

The counselor and the wise craftsman,

And the experienced enchanter.

And I will make young men their princes,

And capricious children will rule over them,

And the people will be oppressed,

Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor;

The youth will overwhelm the elder

And the dishonorable, the honorable.

When a man grasps his brother in his father’s house, saying,

“You have a cloak, you shall be our ruler,

And these ruins will be under your hand,”

He will protest on that day, saying,

“I will not be your healer,

For in my house there is neither bread nor cloak;

You should not appoint me ruler of the people.”

For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen,

Because their tongue and their deeds are against Yahweh,

To rebel against His glorious presence.

The expression of their faces answers against them,

And they declare their sin like Sodom;

They do not even conceal it.

Woe to their soul!

For they have dealt out evil on themselves.

Say to the righteous that it will go well with them,

For they will eat the fruit of their deeds.

Woe to the wicked! It will go badly with him,

For what he has dealt out will be done to him.

O My people! Their taskmasters are infants,

And women rule over them.

O My people! Those who guide you lead you astray

And swallow up the way of your paths.

Yahweh takes His stand to contend,

And stands to judge the peoples.

Yahweh enters into judgment with the elders of His people and His princes,

“It is you who have consumed the vineyard;

The plunder robbed of the afflicted is in your houses.

What do you mean by crushing My people

And grinding the face of the afflicted?”

Declares Lord Yahweh of hosts.

Yahweh Will Judge Zion’s Daughters

16 Moreover, Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty

And walk with outstretched necks and seductive eyes,

And go along with mincing steps

And tinkle the bangles on their feet,

Therefore the Lord will smite the skull of the daughters of Zion with scabs,

And Yahweh will make their foreheads bare.”

18 In that day the Lord will remove the beauty of their anklets, headbands, crescent ornaments, 19 dangling earrings, bracelets, veils, 20 headdresses, ankle chains, sashes, perfume boxes, enchanted charms, 21 finger rings, nose rings, 22 festal robes, outer tunics, cloaks, money purses, 23 hand mirrors, undergarments, turbans, and shawls. 24

Now it will be that instead of sweet perfume there will be the smell of rot;

Instead of a belt, a rope;

Instead of well‑set hair, a plucked‑out scalp;

Instead of fine clothes, a donning of sackcloth;

And branding instead of beauty.

Your men will fall by the sword

And your mighty ones in battle.

And her gates will lament and mourn,

And deserted she will sit on the ground.

Luke 3

The Preaching of John the Baptist

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene, 2 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zechariah, in the wilderness. 3 And he came into all the district around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins; 4 as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet,

“The voice of one crying in the wilderness,

‘Make ready the way of the Lord,

Make His paths straight.

Every ravine will be filled,

And every mountain and hill will be brought low;

The crooked will be straight,

And the rough roads smooth.

And all flesh will see the salvation of God.’”

7 So he was saying to the crowds who were going out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Therefore bear fruits in keeping with repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham. 9 But indeed the axe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore, every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.” 10 And the crowds were questioning him, saying, “Then what should we do?” 11 And he would answer and say to them, “The man who has two tunics is to share with him who has none; and he who has food is to do likewise.” 12 And tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what should we do?” 13 And he said to them, “Collect no more than what you have been ordered to.” 14 And soldiers were also questioning him, saying, “What should we also do?” And he said to them, “Do not take money from anyone by force, or extort anyone, and be content with your wages.” 15 Now while the people were in a state of expectation and all were reasoning in their hearts about John, as to whether he was the Christ, 16 John answered, saying to them all, “As for me, I baptize you with water, but One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to untie the strap of His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 17 His winnowing fork is in His hand to thoroughly clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into His barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” 18 So with many other exhortations he proclaimed the gospel to the people. 19 But when Herod the tetrarch was reproved by him because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and because of all the wicked things which Herod had done, 20 Herod also added this to them all: he locked John up in prison.

The Baptism of Jesus

21 Now it happened that when all the people were being baptized, Jesus was also baptized, and while He was praying, heaven was opened, 22 and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came out of heaven, “You are My beloved Son, in You I am well-pleased.”

The Genealogy of Jesus

23 When He began His ministry, Jesus Himself was about thirty years of age, being, as was supposed,

the son of Joseph,

the son of Eli,

the son of Matthat,

the son of Levi,

the son of Melchi,

the son of Jannai,

the son of Joseph,

the son of Mattathias,

the son of Amos,

the son of Nahum,

the son of Hesli,

the son of Naggai,

the son of Maath,

the son of Mattathias,

the son of Semein,

the son of Josech,

the son of Joda,

the son of Joanan,

the son of Rhesa,

the son of Zerubbabel,

the son of Shealtiel,

the son of Neri,

the son of Melchi,

the son of Addi,

the son of Cosam,

the son of Elmadam,

the son of Er,

the son of Joshua,

the son of Eliezer,

the son of Jorim,

the son of Matthat,

the son of Levi,

the son of Simeon,

the son of Judah,

the son of Joseph,

the son of Jonam,

the son of Eliakim,

the son of Melea,

the son of Menna,

the son of Mattatha,

the son of Nathan,

the son of David,

the son of Jesse,

the son of Obed,

the son of Boaz,

the son of Salmon,

the son of Nahshon,

the son of Amminadab,

the son of Admin,

the son of Ram,

the son of Hezron,

the son of Perez,

the son of Judah,

the son of Jacob,

the son of Isaac,

the son of Abraham,

the son of Terah,

the son of Nahor,

the son of Serug,

the son of Reu,

the son of Peleg,

the son of Heber,

the son of Shelah,

the son of Cainan,

the son of Arphaxad,

the son of Shem,

the son of Noah,

the son of Lamech,

the son of Methuselah,

the son of Enoch,

the son of Jared,

the son of Mahalaleel,

the son of Cainan,

the son of Enosh,

the son of Seth,

the son of Adam,

the son of God.

Psalm 36

In Your Light We See Light

For the choir director. Of the servant of Yahweh, of David.

Transgression declares to the ungodly within his heart;

There is no dread of God before his eyes.

For it flatters him in his eyes

For one to discover his iniquity and hate it.

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit;

He has ceased to consider to do good.

He devises wickedness upon his bed;

He sets himself on a path that is not good;

He does not despise evil.

Your lovingkindness, O Yahweh, is in the heavens,

Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God;

Your judgments are like a great deep.

O Yahweh, You save man and beast.

How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God!

And the sons of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.

They are satisfied from the richness of Your house;

And You give them to drink of the river of Your delights.

For with You is the fountain of life;

In Your light we see light.

Continue Your lovingkindness to those who know You,

And Your righteousness to the upright in heart.

Let not the foot of pride come upon me,

And let not the hand of the ungodly drive me away.

There the workers of wickedness have fallen;

They have been thrust down and cannot rise.