## Rashi on Isaiah Chapter 2

###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:2:1
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:2:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:2:1)

**בְּאַחֲרִית הַיָּמִים.** לְאַחַר שֶׁיִּכְלוּ הַפּוֹשְׁעִים (ישעיהו א:לא):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**At the end of the days** after the rebels perish.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:2:2
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:2:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:2:2)

**נָכוֹן.** מְתֻקָּן:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**firmly established** fixed.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:2:3
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:2:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:2:3)

**בְּרֹאשׁ הֶהָרִים.** בָּהָר שֶׁהוּא רֹאשׁ לְכָל הֶהָרִים, בַּחֲשִׁיבוּת הֶהָרִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**at the top of the mountains** On a mountain that is the head of all the mountains in the importance of the mountains.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:2:4
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:2:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:2:4)

**וְנִשָּׂא מִגְּבָעוֹת.** יִגְדַּל נֵס שֶׁנַּעֲשָׂה בּוֹ, מִנִּסֵּי סִינַי וְכַרְמֶל וְתָבוֹר:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and it shall be raised above the hills** The miracle performed on it, will be greater than the miracles of Sinai, Carmel, and Tabor.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:2:5
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:2:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:2:5)

**וְנָהֲרוּ.** יִתְקַבְּצוּ, יִמָּשְׁכוּ אֵלָיו כַּנְּהָרוֹת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**will stream** will gather and stream to it like rivers.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:3:1
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:3:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:3:1)

**אֶל בֵּית אֱלֹהֵי יַעֲקֹב.** לְפִי שֶׁהוּא קְרָאוֹ ״בֵּית אֵל״ (בראשית כח:יט), לְפִיכָךְ יִקָּרֵא עַל שְׁמוֹ, אֲבָל אַבְרָהָם קְרָאוֹ ״בְּהַר ה׳ יֵרָאֶה״ (בראשית כב:יד), יִצְחָק קְרָאוֹ שָׂדֶה – ״לָשׂוּחַ בַּשָּׂדֶה״ (בראשית כד:סג):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**to the house of the God of Jacob** Since he [Jacob] called it [the Temple site] Beth El [the house of God], therefore, it will be called on his name, but Abraham called it a mount, “On God’s mount shall He appear” (Gen. 22:14); Isaac called it a field, “to meditate in the field” (ibid. 24:63).


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:4:1
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**לְאִתִּים.** קולטר״ש בלע״ז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**into plowshares** koltres in O.F.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:4:2
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:4:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:4:2)

**לְמַזְמֵרוֹת.** שרפ״ש בְּלַעַ״ז, שֶׁזּוֹמְרִין בָּהֶן הַכְּרָמִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**pruning hooks** sarpes in O.F. [serpes in modern French], with which they prune the vineyards.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:5:1
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**בֵּית יַעֲקֹב וְגוֹ׳.** הָאֻמּוֹת יֹאמְרוּ לָהֶם כֵּן, וְהַמִּקְרָא הַזֶּה הוּא מוּסָב עַל ״וְהָלְכוּ עַמִּים רַבִּים וְגוֹ׳״ (ישעיהו ב:ג):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**O house of Jacob...** The nations will say this to them, and this verse refers back to the verse [commencing with], “And many peoples shall go...”


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:5:2
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:5:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:5:2)

**לְכוּ וְנֵלְכָה בְּאוֹר ה׳.** יֹאמְרוּ לָהֶם כֵּן. וְיוֹנָתָן תִּרְגֵּם: ״יֵימְרוּן דְּבֵית יַעֲקֹב אֵיתוֹ וְגוֹ׳״:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**come and let us go in the light of the Lord** They will say this to them. Jonathan, however, renders: And those of the house of Jacob will say, [“Come and let us go in the teaching of the Law of the Lord”].


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:6:1
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:6:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:6:1)

**כִּי נָטַשְׁתָּה עַמְּךָ בֵּית יַעֲקֹב.** הַנָּבִיא מֵסֵב הַדִּבּוּר אֶל הַשְּׁכִינָה וְאוֹמֵר, כִּי עַד הֵנָּה עָזַבְתָּ אֶת עַמְּךָ בִּשְׁבִיל עֲוֹנָם. (דָּבָר אַחֵר: הַנָּבִיא מוֹכִיחָן וְאָמַר לָהֶם כֵּן, **כִּי נָטַשְׁתָּה עַמְּךָ בֵּית יַעֲקֹב וְכוּ׳**, עָזַבְתָּ אֶת מַעֲשֵׂה הַטּוֹב אֲשֶׁר עַל יָדוֹ נִהְיֵיתָ לְעַם, אַתֶּם בֵּית יַעֲקֹב):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob** The prophet addresses the Shechinah and says, “For until now You have forsaken Your People because of their iniquity.” [Other editions read:] “...that which You have forsaken Your people was because of their iniquity, for they are full of [witchcraft] from the East,” and the entire section, and all the chapters follow one another, until (ch. 5) “I will sing now...” Therefore, in the end of days, when the sinners perish, it will be good for them(Parshandatha). (Another explanation is: The prophet admonishes them and says this to them, “For you have forsaken your people, O house of Jacob...” You have forgotten [the deed of your people—Parshandatha] the good deed through which you became a people, you house of Jacob.)


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:6:2
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**כִּי מָלְאוּ מִקֶּדֶם.** נִתְמַלְּאוּ צִבְאוֹתָם מִמַּעֲשֵׂי אֲרַמִּיִּים שֶׁהָיוּ יוֹשְׁבִים בַּמִּזְרָח, שֶׁהָיוּ מְכַשְּׁפִים וּמִשְׁתַּמְּשִׁים בְּשֵׁם עֲבוֹדַת כּוֹכָבִים (סנהדרין צא א):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**for they are full...from the east** Their hosts have become full of the deeds of the Arameans who dwell in the East, who were sorcerers and used the name of pagan deities. [Other editions read:]...and used the name of defilement [sorcery and demonism—Rashi ad loc.], as we say in Ch. Chelek (Sanh. 91a): “Abraham gave gifts” (Gen. 25:6)He gave them the name of defilement and sent them away to the land of the East [as quoted by Parshandatha].


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:6:3
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:6:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:6:3)

**וּבְיַלְדֵי נָכְרִים יַשְׂפִּיקוּ.** בּוֹעֲלִים בְּנוֹת עַכּוּ״ם וּמִתְעָרְבִים בָּהֶם, וְיוֹלְדוֹת לָהֶם יְלָדִים, וּבָהֶם הֵם מַסְפִּיקִים תָּמִיד וּמִתְעַסְּקִים וּמִתְרַפְּקִין וְנִטְרָחִים בָּהֶם. לְשׁוֹן ״פֶּן יְסִיתְךָ בְשֶׂפֶק״ (איוב לו:יח), דביטימנ״ט בלע״ז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and with children of gentiles they please themselves** They cohabit with the daughters of the heathens and mingle with them, and they would bear children to them, with whom they are always pleased, and they occupy themselves [with them] and long for them and bother with them. This is an expression similar to [that of] (Job 36:18) “lest he incite you because of abundance (בְּשֶׂפֶק)” [debatement in O.F].


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:7:1
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**וְאֵין קֵצֶה.** לְשׁוֹן קֵץ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**end** Heb. קָצֶה, an expression derived from קץ.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:8:1
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**יִשְׁתַּחֲווּ.** כְּמוֹ מִשְׁתַּחֲוִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**they prostrate themselves** Heb. ישתחוו. Although the form is future, it is to be rendered like מִשְׁתַּחֲוִים, they prostrate themselves.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:9:1
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:9:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:9:1)

**וַיִּשַּׁח אָדָם.** הַקְּטַנִּים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And man has become bowed down** [This refers to] inferior [men].


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:9:2
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:9:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:9:2)

**וַיִּשְׁפַּל אִישׁ.** הַגְּדוֹלִים וְהַגִּבּוֹרִים אַנְשֵׁי הַחַיִל:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and man has become humble** [This refers to] great [men], heroes, and warriors.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:9:3
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:9:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:9:3)

**וְאַל תִּשָּׂא לָהֶם.** הַנָּבִיא אוֹמֵר לְהַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא: וְיָדַעְתִּי כִּי לֹא תִסְלַח לָהֶם מִלְּהִפָּרַע מֵהֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and You shall not forgive them** The prophet says to the Holy One, blessed be He: And I know that you shall not forgive them from punishing them.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:10:1
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:10:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:10:1)

**בּוֹא בַצּוּר.** לָבוֹא בַּצּוּר לִבְרֹחַ בְּנִקְרַת הַצּוּרִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Come into the rock** To come into the rock to escape in the cracks of the rocks.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:10:2
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**וְהִטָּמֵן בֶּעָפָר.** וּלְהִטָּמֵן בֶּעָפָר:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and hide in the dust** and to hide in the dust.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:11:1
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:11:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:11:1)

**עֵינֵי גַּבְהוּת אָדָם.** גַּסּוּת הָרוּחַ, וְכֵן כָּל לְשׁוֹן גֹּבַהּ עֵינַיִם שֶׁבַּמִּקְרָא, כְּמָה דְאַתְּ אָמַר ״גְּבַהּ עֵינַיִם וּרְחַב לֵבָב״ (תהלים קא:ה):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**The haughty eyes of man** [This means] the haughty spirit, and so every expression of haughty eyes in the Scriptures, as it is said: “Whoever is haughty of eye, lustful in heart...” (Ps. 101:5).


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:13:1
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**אַרְזֵי הַלְּבָנוֹן.** דֻּגְמָא הוּא עַל הַגִּבּוֹרִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the cedars of the Lebanon** This is symbolic of the heroes [var. the kings].


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:13:2
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**אַלּוֹנֵי הַבָּשָׁן.** הַשַּׁלְטוֹנִין, כְּמוֹ שֶׁאַלּוֹנִים פְּחוּתִים מִן הָאֲרָזִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the oaks of the Bashan** The governors, just as the oaks are inferior to the cedars.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:14:1
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:14:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:14:1)

**וְעַל כָּל הֶהָרִים הָרָמִים.** עַל יוֹשְׁבֵיהֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And over all the high mountains** over their inhabitants.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:16:1
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**וְעַל כָּל אֳנִיּוֹת.** תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: ״וְעַל כָּל דְּיָתְבִין בְּנִיסֵי יַמָּא״ בְּאִיֵּי הַיָּם, שֶׁמּוֹצָאָן וּמוּבָאָן בָּאֳנִיּוֹת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And over all the ships** Jonathan renders: And over all those who inhabit the islands of the sea, who go and come by ship.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:16:2
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:16:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:16:2)

**תַּרְשִׁישׁ.** שֵׁם יָם שֶׁשְּׁמוֹ תַּרְשִׁישׁ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Tarshish** The name of a sea called Tarshish.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:16:3
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:16:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:16:3)

**שְׂכִיּוֹת הַחֶמְדָּה.** פַּלְטֵרִין רְצוּפִין בְּמַשְׂכִּית, רִצְפַת שַׁיִשׁ, כְּמוֹ ״וְאֶבֶן מַשְׂכִּית״ (ויקרא כו:א), עַל שֵׁם שֶׁסוֹכְכִים בּוֹ אֶת הַקַּרְקַע:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and over all coveted floors** Heb. שְׂכִיוֹת, palaces paved with coverings of marble floors, similar to: (Lev. 26:1) and a covering stone (וְְאֶבֶן מַשְׂכִּית), since they cover the ground with it.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:17:1
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:17:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:17:1)

**בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא.** הוּא יוֹם הַדִּין:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**on that day** That is the Day of Judgment.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:18:1
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:18:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:18:1)

**כָּלִיל יַחֲלֹף.** כֻּלּוֹ יַחֲלֹף, כֻּלָּם יֹאבֵדוּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**shall completely pass away** They will all pass away; they will all vanish.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:19:1
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:19:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:19:1)

**וּבָאוּ.** יוֹשְׁבֵי הָאָרֶץ בִּמְעָרוֹת צוּרִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And they shall come** [i.e.,] the inhabitants of the earth shall come into the caves of the rocks.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:19:2
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:19:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:19:2)

**מְחִלּוֹת.** הֵם הֵם מְעָרוֹת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and into the hollows** They are caves.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:19:3
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:19:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:19:3)

**בְּקוּמוֹ.** לְיוֹם הַדִּין:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**when He rises** for Judgment Day.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:19:4
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:19:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:19:4)

**לַעֲרֹץ הָאָרֶץ.** לִשְׁבּוֹר רִשְׁעֵי הָאָרֶץ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**to break the earth** to break the wicked of the earth.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:20:1
[Rashi on Isaiah 2:20:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Isaiah/r/2:20:1)

**לְהִשְׁתַּחֲוֹת לַחְפֹּר פֵּרוֹת.** גִּלּוּלִים בִּדְמוּת חֲפַרְפָּרוֹת, מִינֵי שְׁרָצִים שֶׁחוֹפְרִין הָאָרֶץ, שֶׁקּוֹרִין טלפ״ש בלע״ז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**to prostrate himself to moles** Heb. לַחְפֹּר פֵּרוֹת, idols in the likeness of moles, a species of rodents who dig in the earth, called talpes in O.F. [taupes in modern French].


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:20:2
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**וְלָעֲטַלֵּפִים.** קלבא שורי״ץ בלע״ז. יֵשׁ לִפְתּוֹר עוֹד: אֶת אֱלִילָיו אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה לוֹ לְהִשְׁתַּחֲווֹת, יַשְׁלִיךְ הָאָדָם בַּחֲרִיצִים וּבַנְּעִיצִין שֶׁיִּמְצָא לְפָנָיו, כְּשֶׁהוֹלֵךְ לִבְרוֹחַ וּלְהִטָּמֵן:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and to bats** kalbe soric [chauvesouris in modern French]. Alternatively, this may be interpreted to mean that man will cast his idols that he made for himself, before which to prostrate himself, into pits and ditches that he finds before him when he goes to escape and hide.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:22:1
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**חִדְלוּ לָכֶם מִן הָאָדָם.** שֶׁלֹּא לִשְׁמוֹעַ לְאוֹתָן הַמַּתְעִים אֶתְכֶם מֵאַחֲרַי וּלְהִשְׁתַּחֲווֹת לְמַעֲשֵׂה יָדָיו:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Withdraw yourselves from man** not to heed those who cause you to stray from following Me and to prostrate yourselves to the work of his hands.


###### Rashi on Isaiah 2:22:2
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**אֲשֶׁר נְשָׁמָה בְּאַפּוֹ.** אֲשֶׁר כָּל חַיָּתוֹ וְכֹחוֹ תְּלוּיָה בְּנִשְׁמַת אַפּוֹ, שֶׁהוּא רוּחַ פּוֹרֵחַ, שֶׁהַיּוֹם יֶשְׁנָהּ בּוֹ וּמָחָר תֵּצֵא מִמֶּנּוּ, וְקַל וָחוֹמֶר לִדְמוּת חֲפַרְפָּרוֹת שֶׁאֵין בּוֹ מַמָּשׁ. דָּבָר אַחֵר: חִדְלוּ לָכֶם מִכָּל הַדְּרָכִים הָרָעִים, וְלִמְדוּ מִן הָאָדָם אֲשֶׁר נְשָׁמָה בְּאַפּוֹ, הַרְאִיתֶם לְמָה נֶחְשָׁב הוּא, וְקַל וָחוֹמֶר לַגְּלוּלִים שֶׁאֵינוֹ נֶחְשָׁב לִכְלוּם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**whose breath is in his nostrils** Whose entire life and strength are dependent upon the breath of his nostrils, which is a fleeting spirit, in him today and leaving him tomorrow. Surely the image of the moles and the bats has no substance. Another explanation is: Withdraw yourselves from all the evil ways and learn from the man who has a soul in his nostrils. Have you seen to what he is esteemed? Surely the image of his handiwork is of no esteem.