Isaiah 2:5

You Israeli people, let’s walk in the light [MET] that comes from Yahweh!

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4Yahweh will listen to the disputes between nations and he will settle their arguments. Then, instead of fighting against each other, they will hammer their swords into plow blades, and they will hammer their spears into pruning knives. The armies of nations will no longer fight against each other, and they will not even train men to fight in battles/wars.”

6Yahweh, you have abandoned us your people who are descendants of Jacob, because everywhere your people practice the customs of people who live east of Israel. Your people also perform rituals to find out what will happen in the future, like the people in Philistia do. They make agreements/treaties with ◄pagans/people who do not know you►.

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Cross References

Psalms 89:15Yahweh, happy are the people who worship you with joyful shouts, who live knowing that you are always watching over them.

Isaiah 2:3People from many people-groups will say to each other, “Come, let’s go up to the hill, to the temple of Yahweh, to worship the God whom Jacob worshiped. There Yahweh will teach us what he desires us to know, in order that our behavior will please him. His teaching will be given to us in Jerusalem, and we will take his message from Jerusalem to other places/nations.

Isaiah 58:1Yahweh said to me, “Shout loudly! Shout like [SIM] a loud trumpet! Shout to warn my Israeli people about their sins [DOU]!

Isaiah 60:19And you will no longer need the sun and moon to give you light, because I, Yahweh, will give you more light than the sun and moon; I will be a glorious light for you forever.

John 12:35Then Jesus said to them, “ My message is like [MET] a light for you. I will be with you for only a little while longer. Live and act as you should while I am still with you, because suddenly you will have no more opportunity to hear my message! You do not want to be like [MET] someone who cannot see where he is going any more when it suddenly becomes dark!

Ephesians 5:8because formerly you did not know God’s truth [MET], as those who are in darkness do not know what is around them. But now it is as though you are in the light [MET] because you know God’s truth because of your relationship with the Lord Jesus. So do those things that those who know God’s truth [MET] should do.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 2:2-6

Increase of the Church Predicted. ( b. c. 758.) 1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 And 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. 3 And 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… Read the whole commentary →

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