Isaiah 2:5
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 paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And 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.
O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
6 Therefore 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.
7 Their 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:
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Compare
- BSB
- Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.
- KJV
- O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
- WEB
- House of Jacob, come, and let’s walk in the light of the LORD.
- ASV
- O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of Jehovah.
- DARBY
- House of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of Jehovah.
- BLB
- O House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of YHWH.
- ÅB
- Jakobs hus! Kom, la oss vandre i Herrens lys!
- OTB
- Kom, Jakobs hus, la oss vandre i Herrens lys.
- B1930
- Jakobs hus! Kom, la oss vandre i Herrens lys!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ephesians 5:8
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Read in contextLuke 1:79
To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Read in context1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Read in contextIsaiah 60:19–20
The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Read in contextJohn 12:35–36
Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
Read in context1 John 1:5
This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Read in contextRevelation 21:23–24
And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Read in contextIsaiah 2:3
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 paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
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