Isaiah Chapter 1
| 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. | 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. | 3 | The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. | 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. | 5 | Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 10 | Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. | 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. | 12 | When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? | 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. | 14 | Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. | 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. | 16 | Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; | 17 | Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. | 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. | 19 | If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: | 20 | But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. | 21 | How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. | 22 | Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: | 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. | 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: | 25 | And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: | 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. | 27 | Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. | 28 | And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed. | 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. | 30 | For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. | 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. |