¹ Now you will give yourselves deep wounds for grief; they will put up a wall round us: they will give the judge of Israel a blow on the face with a rod.

² And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.

³ For this cause he will give them up till the time when she who is with child has given birth: then the rest of his brothers will come back to the children of Israel.

⁴ And he will take his place and give food to his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the glory of the name of the Lord his God; and their resting-place will be safe: for now he will be great to the ends of the earth.

⁵ And this will be our peace: when the Assyrian comes into our country and his feet are in our land, then we will put up against him seven keepers of the flocks and eight chiefs among men.

⁶ And they will make waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the edge of the sword: he will give us salvation from the Assyrian when he comes into our country, when his feet come inside the limit of our land.

⁷ And the rest of Jacob will be among the mass of peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which may not be kept back by man, or be waiting for the sons of men.

⁸ And the rest of Jacob will be among the nations, in the middle of the mass of peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the woods, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep: if he goes through, they will be crushed under foot and pulled to bits, and there will be no saviour.

⁹ Your hand is lifted up against those who are against you, and all your haters will be cut off.

¹⁰ And it will come about in that day, says the Lord, that I will take away your horses from you, and will give your war-carriages to destruction:

¹¹ I will have the towns of your land cut off and all your strong places pulled down:

¹² I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs:

¹³ And I will have your images and your pillars cut off from you; and you will no longer give worship to the work of your hands.

¹⁴ I will have your Asherahs pulled up from among you: and I will send destruction on your images.

¹⁵ And my punishment will be effected on the nations with such burning wrath as they have not had word of.

¹ The word which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw about Judah and Jerusalem.

² And it will come about in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and all nations will come to it.

³ And the peoples will say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob: and he will give us knowledge of his ways, and we will be guided by his word; for out of Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

⁴ And he will be the judge between the nations, and the peoples will be ruled by his decisions: and their swords will be turned into plough-blades, and their spears into vine-knives: no longer will the nations be turning their swords against one another, and the knowledge of war will be gone for ever.

⁵ O family of Jacob, come, and let us go in the light of the Lord.

⁶ For you, O Lord, have given up your people, the family of Jacob, because they are full of the evil ways of the east, and make use of secret arts like the Philistines, and are friends with the children of strange countries.

⁷ And their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no end to their stores; their land is full of horses, and there is no end to their carriages.

⁸ Their land is full of images; they give worship to the work of their hands, even to that which their fingers have made.

⁹ And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face: for this cause there will be no forgiveness for their sin.

¹⁰ Go into a hole in the rock, covering yourselves with dust, in fear of the Lord, before the glory of his power.

¹¹ The high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low, and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.

¹² For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;

¹³ And on all the high trees of Lebanon, and on all the strong trees of Bashan;

¹⁴ And on all the high mountains, and on all the hills which are lifted up;

¹⁵ And on every high tower, and on every strong wall;

¹⁶ And on all the ships of Tarshish, and on all the fair boats.

¹⁷ And the high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low: and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.

¹⁸ And the images will never be seen again.

¹⁹ And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

²⁰ In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places;

²¹ To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

²² Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.