Targum Isaiah

1The Word Of Prophecy, Which Isaiah The Son Of Amoz Prophesied Concerning The Men Of Judah And The Inhabitants Of Jerusalem.

2And it shall come to pass in the end of days, that the mountain of the house of the sanctuary of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and all the kingdoms shall be turned to worship upon it.

3And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the house of the sanctuary of the Lord, to the house of the Shekinah of the God of Jacob ; and He will teach us of His ways, which are right before Him, and we will walk in the instruction of His law; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the instruction of the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

4And He shall judge among the kingdoms, and rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into sickles: nation against nation shall not lift up any weapon, neither shall they learn war any more.

5Those of the house of Jacob shall say, Come ye, and let us walk in the instruction of the law of the Lord.

6Because ye have forsaken the terrible, the mighty One, who has redeemed you of the house of Jacob, therefore your land is full of idols, as from the beginning; and they have become prognosticated by the clouds, like the Philistines; and they are walking in the laws of the nations.

7Also their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, and there is no end of their chariots.

8Their land is also full of idols; they prostrate themselves to the work of their own hands, to that which is shaped by their own fingers.

9The common man shall be humbled, and the strength of the great men shall become weak; and Thou shalt not pardon them.

10They shall enter into the rock in order to flee with a flight, and to be hidden in the dust, for fear of the Lord, and for the brightness of His glory.

11The lofty looks of the common man shall be humbled, and the strength of the great men shall become weak, and the Lord alone shall be mighty in that time.

12For the day shall come from the Lord of hosts upon all the proud, and upon those who are highminded, and upon all the mighty, yea, they shall be humbled.

13And upon all the kings of the nations, the strong and the mighty; and upon all the princes of the provinces;

14And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up;

15And upon all that dwell in a high tower; and upon all who dwell within fortified walls;

16And upon all that dwell in the islands of the sea; and upon all that dwell in beautiful palaces.

17The pride of the common man shall be humbled, and the strength of the great men shall become weak, and the Lord alone shall be mighty in that time.

18And the idols shall utterly come to an end.

19And they shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the caverns of the earth, for the fear of the Lord, and for the brightness of His glory, when He shall be revealed to destroy the wicked of the earth.

20At that time the sons of men shall abominate the idols of their silver, and the idols of their gold, which they have made for themselves to prostrate themselves to idols and to images.

21To go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the rocks, for the fear of the Lord and for the brightness of His glory, when He shall be revealed to destroy the wicked of the earth.

22Cease ye to make yourselves servile to man, because he is working terror; the breath of the spirit of life is in his nostrils, for to-day he is alive, but to-morrow he is not, and he is counted as nothing.