Isaiah 1

1 The vision of Isaias the son of Amos I which he saw concerning Juda and Jerusalem in the days of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda.

The visions 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 ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have despised me.

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth! For Jehovah speaketh: “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 hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.

The ox knoweth his owner, And the ass his master's crib; But Israel doth not know; My people do not consider.”

4 Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards.

Ah, sinful nation! a people laden with iniquity! A race of evil-doers! degenerate children! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have despised the Holy One of Israel; They have gone backward.

5 For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.

Where can ye be smitten again, Since ye renew your rebellion? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint;

6 From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no soundness therein: wounds and bruises and swelling sores: they are not bound up, nor dressed, nor fomented with oil.

From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it; It is all bruises, and stripes, and flesh wounds, Neither pressed, nor bound up, nor softened with ointment.

7 Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your country strangers devour before your face, and it shall be desolate as when wasted by enemies.

Your country is desolate; Your cities are burnt with fire; Your ground, strangers devour it before your eyes; It is become desolate, destroyed by an enemy.

8 And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in a vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and as a city that is laid waste.

And the daughter of Zion is left as a shed in a vineyard, As a hut in a garden of cucumbers, As a besieged city.

9 Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrha.

Had not Jehovah of hosts left us a small remnant, We had soon become as Sodom; We had been like to Gomorrah.

10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.

Hear ye the word of Jehovah, ye princes of Sodom! Give ear to the instruction of our God, ye people of Gomorrah!

11 To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.

What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah; I am satiated with burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; In the blood of bullocks and of lambs and of goats I have no delight.

12 When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?

When ye come to appear before me, Who hath required this of you, to tread my courts?

13 Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, and the sabbaths, and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.

Bring no more false oblations! Incense is an abomination to me, The new moon also, and the sabbath, and the calling of the assembly; Iniquity and festivals I cannot endure.

14 My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.

Your new moons and your feasts my soul hateth; They are a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.

15 And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.

When ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; Yea, when ye multiply prayers, I will not hear: Your hands are full of blood!

16 Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely,

Wash you; make you clean; Put away your evil doings from before mine eyes;

17 Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.

Cease to do evil; Learn to do well; Seek justice; relieve the oppressed; Defend the fatherless; plead for the widow!

18 And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.

Come, now, and let us argue together, saith Jehovah. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; Though they be red as crimson, they shall be like wool.

19 If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.

If ye be willing and obedient, Ye shall consume the good of the land.

20 But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

But if ye refuse, and be rebellious, The sword shall consume you; For the mouth of Jehovah hath said it.

21 How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.

How is the faithful city become a harlot, She that was full of equity! Once justice dwelt in her, but now murderers!

22 Thy silver is turned into dress: thy wine is mingled with water.

Thy silver is become dross; Thy wine is adulterated with water.

23 Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, the run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow’s cometh not in to them.

Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves; Every one of them loveth gifts, and seeketh rewards; They render not justice to the fatherless, And the cause of the widow cometh not before them.

24 Therefore saith the Lord the God of hosts, the mighty one of Israel: Ah! I will comfort myself over my adversaries: and I will be revenged of my enemies.

Wherefore, thus saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ha! I will ease me of mine adversaries, And avenge me of mine enemies.

25 And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dress, and I will take away all thy tin.

And I will again turn my hand toward thee, And wholly purge away thy dross, And take away all thy alloy.

26 And I will restore thy judges as they were before, and thy counsellors as of old. After this thou shalt be called the city of the just, a faithful city.

And I will restore thee judges, as at the first, And counsellors, as at the beginning. Then shalt thou be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.

27 Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring her back in justice.

Through justice shall Zion be delivered, And her reformed sons through righteousness.

28 And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and they that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed.

But destruction shall fall at once on the rebels and sinners; Yea, they that forsake Jehovah shall be consumed.

29 For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have chosen.

For ye shall be ashamed of the terebinths in which ye delighted; Ye shall blush for the gardens which ye loved;

30 When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off, and as a garden without water.

And ye shall be as a terebinth-tree whose leaves are withered, And as a garden in which is no water.

31 And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a spark: and both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench it.

The strong shall become tow, And his work a spark of fire; Both shall burn together, And none shall quench them.