| 1: The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw
concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and
Hezekiah, kings of Judah. |
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| 2: Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath
spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled
against me. |
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| 3:
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but
Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. |
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| 4: Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of
evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD,
they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away
backward. |
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| 5: Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and
more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. |
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| 6: From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no
soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they
have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
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| 7: Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire:
your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as
overthrown by strangers. |
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| 8: And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard,
as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. |
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| 9: Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small
remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto
Gomorrah. |
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| 10: Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto
the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. |
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| 11: To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me?
saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of
fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or
of he goats. |
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| 12: When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at
your hand, to tread my courts? |
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| 13: Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto
me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away
with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. |
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| 14: Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they
are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. |
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| 15: And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes
from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands
are full of blood. |
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| 16: Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings
from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; |
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| 17: Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge
the fatherless, plead for the widow. |
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| 18: Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though
your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be
red like crimson, they shall be as wool. |
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| 19: If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the
land: |
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| 20: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the
sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. |
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| 21: How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of
judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. |
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| 22: Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
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| 23: Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every
one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the
fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. |
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| 24: Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One
of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine
enemies: |
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| 25: And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy
dross, and take away all thy tin: |
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| 26: And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy
counsellers as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The
city of righteousness, the faithful city. |
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| 27: Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with
righteousness. |
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| 28: And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners
shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
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| 29: For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired,
and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. |
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| 30: For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden
that hath no water. |
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| 31: And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a
spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them. |
