Isaiah 2

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1The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

2And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

JSTJoseph Smith Translation of v. 2

And it shall come to pass in the last days, when the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it,
IV v. 2 (Inspired Version, 1867)

3And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

4And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

5O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

JSTJoseph Smith Translation of v. 5

O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord; yea, come, for ye have all gone astray, everyone to his wicked ways.
IV v. 5 (Inspired Version, 1867)

6Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.

JSTJoseph Smith Translation of v. 6

Therefore, O Lord, thou hast forsaken thy people, the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east and hearken unto soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
IV v. 6 (Inspired Version, 1867)

7Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:

8Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

9And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.

JSTJoseph Smith Translation of v. 9

And the mean man boweth not down, and the great man humbleth himself not; therefore, forgive them not.
IV v. 9 (Inspired Version, 1867)

10Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.

JSTJoseph Smith Translation of v. 10

O ye wicked ones, enter into the rock, and hide ye in the dust; for the fear of the Lord and his majesty shall smite thee.
IV v. 10 (Inspired Version, 1867)

11The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

JSTJoseph Smith Translation of v. 11

And it shall come to pass that the lofty looks of man shall be humbled; and the haughtiness of man shall be bowed down; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
IV v. 11 (Inspired Version, 1867)

12For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

JSTJoseph Smith Translation of v. 12

For the day of the Lord of hosts soon cometh upon all nations, yea, upon every one, yea, upon the proud, and lofty, and upon everyone who is lifted up; and he shall be brought low.
IV v. 12 (Inspired Version, 1867)

13And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

JSTJoseph Smith Translation of v. 13

Yea, and the day of the Lord shall come upon all the cedars of Lebanon, for they are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
IV v. 13 (Inspired Version, 1867)

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

JSTJoseph Smith Translation of v. 14

And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills, and upon all the nations which are lifted up,
IV v. 14 (Inspired Version, 1867)

15And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,

JSTJoseph Smith Translation of v. 15

And upon every people, and upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
IV v. 15 (Inspired Version, 1867)

16And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.

JSTJoseph Smith Translation of v. 16

And upon all the ships of the sea, and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
IV v. 16 (Inspired Version, 1867)

17And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

18And the idols he shall utterly abolish.

19And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

JSTJoseph Smith Translation of v. 19

And they shall go into the holes of the rocks and into the caves of the earth, for the fear of the Lord shall come upon them; and the glory of his majesty shall smite them when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
IV v. 19 (Inspired Version, 1867)

20In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

JSTJoseph Smith Translation of v. 20

In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which he hath made for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats,
IV v. 20 (Inspired Version, 1867)

21To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

JSTJoseph Smith Translation of v. 21

To go into the clefts of the rocks and into the tops of the ragged rocks; for the fear of the Lord shall come upon them, and the majesty of the Lord shall smite them when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
IV v. 21 (Inspired Version, 1867)

22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

Also cited in commentary

1 Nephi 20 — Isaiah 48 — The Refining Furnace, the For-Mine-Own-Sake, and the Command to Depart
- Where we are
2 Nephi 11 — My Soul Delighteth — Nephi's Preface to the Isaiah Block
- Where we are
2 Nephi 12 — Isaiah 2 — The Mountain of the Lord's House and the Day of the Lord
2 Nephi 13 — Isaiah 3 — The Stay and the Staff Removed, and the Daughters of Zion
- Where we are
2 Nephi 14 — Isaiah 4 — The Branch of the Lord and the Restored Pillar of Cloud and Fire
- The chapter's architecture
- Where we are
2 Nephi 19 — Isaiah 9 — The People That Walked in Darkness, the Child Born, the Four Throne-Names
- The child born and the four throne-names
- Where this lands
2 Nephi 20 — Isaiah 10 — The Assyrian as the Lord's Rod, the Remnant Returns, the Cedars Cut Down
- The cedars cut down
- Where this lands
2 Nephi 21 — Isaiah 11 — The Branch from the Stump of Jesse, the Sevenfold Spirit, and the Peaceable Kingdom
- Where this lands
2 Nephi 23 — Isaiah 13 — The Burden of Babylon, the Day of the Lord, the Sanctified Ones
- Where this lands
2 Nephi 24 — Isaiah 14 — Israel Restored, the Taunt-Song over Babylon's King, Lucifer Fallen from Heaven
- Where this lands
2 Nephi 25 — Nephi's Exposition — The Plainness, Six Hundred Years, the Name of Christ, and Grace After All We Can Do
- Where we are
2 Nephi 29 — A Bible! A Bible! — The Marvelous Work, the Two Records, and the Lord Speaks to All Nations
- Where this lands
2 Nephi 30 — Gentile Covenant, Lamanite Delight, and the Millennial Earth — Nephi's Expansion of Isaiah 11
- Where this lands
4 Nephi 1 — And Surely There Could Not Be a Happier People — The Two Hundred Years of Zion, and the Long Unraveling
- How the chapter is built
Alma 20 — Go Not Up to the Land of Nephi — The Lord's Course Correction, the King over All the Land, and Ammon's Disarming Defense of His Friend
- Ammon's intervention and the disarming
- The chapter's architecture
Alma 23 — They Never Did Fall Away — Seven Cities Converted, the Anti-Nephi-Lehies Named, and the Exceptions
- The chapter's architecture
Alma 24 — Rather Than Shed the Blood of Our Brethren — Weapons Buried Deep, 1,005 Slain Singing Praise, and the Convert Count That Exceeded the Body Count
- The chapter's architecture
- The Lamanite attack and the prostration
Ether 13 — A New Jerusalem Upon This Land — Ether's Prophecy of the Holy City, and the War That Would Not End
- How the chapter is built
Jarom 1 — Jarom — A Short Book on Purpose: Keeping the Law of Moses While Looking Forward to Christ, and the Prophets Who Kept a Hard People Alive
- Where this lands
Mosiah 10 — The Tradition of the Fathers — A Wrong That Is Taught, A Hatred That Is Inherited, A Deliverance That Comes by Remembrance
- The second war and the strength-of-the-Lord deliverance
- Where this lands
Mosiah 25 — The Great Gathering in Zarahemla — Three Records Read, the Mulekite Majority Numbered, Limhi's People Baptized by Alma, and Seven Churches Organized in the Land
- Where this lands
Mosiah 28 — The Sons of Mosiah Depart for the Lamanites — They Could Not Bear That Any Soul Should Perish, Mosiah Translates the Jaredite Plates by the Interpreters, the Office of the Seer Defined
- Where this lands
Doctrine and Covenants 57 — The Center Place
- The land of promise, the center place
- Where this lands
1 Kings 20 — The God of the Valleys Too — Thirty-two Kings at the Gate, the Boast Proverb, Victory at Aphek, and the Man Ahab Let Walk
- God of the valleys too
2 Chronicles 17 — The King Who Sent Teachers — Jehoshaphat Seeks Early, His Heart Lifted Up Rightly, and the Book of the Law Carried to Every City
- A heart lifted up — rightly
Psalms 24 — Clean Hands and a Pure Heart — Who May Climb the Hill of the LORD, and the King of Glory at the Gate
- How this chapter changes the reader
- Who shall ascend the hill
Psalms 46 — A Very Present Help — The River That Gladdens the City, and the Command to Be Still
- Come, behold — and be still
- How this chapter changes the reader

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Joseph Smith Translation

v. 2
And it shall come to pass in the last days, when the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it,
v. 5
O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord; yea, come, for ye have all gone astray, everyone to his wicked ways.
v. 6
Therefore, O Lord, thou hast forsaken thy people, the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east and hearken unto soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
v. 9
And the mean man boweth not down, and the great man humbleth himself not; therefore, forgive them not.
v. 10
O ye wicked ones, enter into the rock, and hide ye in the dust; for the fear of the Lord and his majesty shall smite thee.
v. 11
And it shall come to pass that the lofty looks of man shall be humbled; and the haughtiness of man shall be bowed down; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
v. 12
For the day of the Lord of hosts soon cometh upon all nations, yea, upon every one, yea, upon the proud, and lofty, and upon everyone who is lifted up; and he shall be brought low.
v. 13
Yea, and the day of the Lord shall come upon all the cedars of Lebanon, for they are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
v. 14
And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills, and upon all the nations which are lifted up,
v. 15
And upon every people, and upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
v. 16
And upon all the ships of the sea, and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
v. 19
And they shall go into the holes of the rocks and into the caves of the earth, for the fear of the Lord shall come upon them; and the glory of his majesty shall smite them when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
v. 20
In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which he hath made for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats,
v. 21
To go into the clefts of the rocks and into the tops of the ragged rocks; for the fear of the Lord shall come upon them, and the majesty of the Lord shall smite them when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.