Isaiah 1

1 vision Isaiah son: child Amoz which to see upon Judah and Jerusalem in/on/with day Uzziah Jotham Ahaz Hezekiah king Judah

The visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he has seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

2 to hear: hear heaven and to listen land: country/planet for LORD to speak: speak son: child to magnify and to exalt and they(masc.) to transgress in/on/with me

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, For YHWH has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up sons, And they transgressed against Me.

3 to know cattle to buy him and donkey crib master his Israel not to know people my not to understand

An ox has known its owner, And a donkey the crib of its master, Israel has not known, My people have not understood.”

4 woe! nation to sin people heavy iniquity: crime seed: children be evil son: child to ruin to leave: forsake [obj] LORD to spurn [obj] holy Israel be a stranger back

Oh, sinning nation, a people heavy [with] iniquity, A seed of evildoers, sons—corrupters! They have forsaken YHWH, They have despised the Holy One of Israel, They have gone away backward.

5 upon what? to smite still to add: again revolt all head to/for sickness and all heart faint

Why are you struck anymore? You add apostasy! Every head has become diseased, and every heart [is] sick.

6 from palm: sole foot and till head nothing in/on/with him soundness wound and wound and wound fresh not to crush and not to saddle/tie and not be tender in/on/with oil

From the sole of the foot—to the head, There is no soundness in it, Wound, and bruise, and fresh striking! They have not been closed nor bound, Nor have they softened with ointment.

7 land: country/planet your devastation city your to burn fire land: soil your to/for before you be a stranger to eat [obj] her and devastation like/as overthrow be a stranger

Your land [is] a desolation, your cities burned with fire, Your ground—strangers are consuming it before you, And a desolation as overthrown by strangers!

8 and to remain daughter Zion like/as booth in/on/with vineyard like/as lodge in/on/with cucumber field like/as city to watch

And the daughter of Zion has been left, As a shelter in a vineyard, As a lodge in a place of cucumbers—as a city besieged.

9 unless LORD Hosts to remain to/for us survivor like/as little like/as Sodom to be to/for Gomorrah to resemble

Unless YHWH of Hosts had left a remnant to us, Shortly—we had been as Sodom, We had been like to Gomorrah!

10 to hear: hear word LORD chief Sodom to listen instruction God our people Gomorrah

Hear the word of YHWH, you rulers of Sodom, Give ear to the Law of our God, you people of Gomorrah,

11 to/for what? to/for me abundance sacrifice your to say LORD to satisfy burnt offering ram and fat fatling and blood bullock and lamb and goat not to delight in

“Why the abundance of your sacrifices to Me?” says YHWH, “I have been satiated [with] burnt-offerings of rams, And fat of fatlings; And blood of bullocks, and lambs, And I have not desired male goats.

12 for to come (in): come to/for to see: see face: before my who? to seek this from hand: themselves your to trample court my

When you come to appear before Me, Who has required this of your hand, To trample My courts?

13 not to add: again to come (in): bring offering vanity: vain incense abomination he/she/it to/for me month: new moon and Sabbath to call: call to assembly not be able evil: wickedness and assembly

Do not add to bring in a vain present, Incense—it [is] an abomination to Me, New moon, and Sabbath, calling of convocation! Do not render iniquity—and a restraint!

14 month: new moon your and meeting: festival your to hate soul my to be upon me to/for burden be weary to lift: bear

My soul has hated your new moons and your set seasons, They have been on Me for a burden, I have been weary of bearing.

15 and in/on/with to spread you palm your to conceal eye my from you also for to multiply prayer nothing I to hear: hear hand your blood to fill

And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide My eyes from you, Also when you increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands have been full of blood.

16 to wash: wash to clean to turn aside: remove evil deed your from before eye my to cease be evil

Wash yourselves, make yourselves pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before My eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.

17 to learn: learn be good to seek justice to bless oppression to judge orphan to contend widow

Seek judgment, make the oppressed blessed, Judge the fatherless, strive [for] the widow.

18 to go: come! please and to rebuke to say LORD if to be sin your like/as scarlet like/as snow to whiten if to redden like/as worm like/as wool to be

Now come, and we settle this,” says YHWH, “If your sins are as scarlet, they will be white as snow, If they are red as crimson, they will be as wool!

19 if be willing and to hear: obey goodness [the] land: country/planet to eat

If you are willing, and have listened, The good of the land you consume,

20 and if to refuse and to rebel sword to eat for lip LORD to speak: speak

And if you refuse, and have rebelled, You are consumed [by] the sword,” For the mouth of YHWH has spoken.

21 how? to be to/for to fornicate town be faithful full justice righteousness to lodge in/on/with her and now to murder

How has a faithful city become a harlot? I have filled it [with] judgment, Righteousness lodges in it—now murderers.

22 silver: money your to be to/for dross liquor your to weaken in/on/with water

Your silver has become dross, Your drink defiled with water.

23 ruler your to rebel and companion thief all his to love: lover bribe and to pursue reward orphan not to judge and strife widow not to come (in): come to(wards) them

Your princes [are] apostates, and companions of thieves, Everyone loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, They do not judge the fatherless, And the plea of the widow does not come to them.

24 to/for so utterance [the] lord LORD Hosts mighty Israel woe! to be sorry: comfort from enemy my and to avenge from enemy my

Therefore—a declaration of the Lord—YHWH of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: “Oh, I relieve Myself from My adversaries, And avenge Myself against My enemies,

25 and to return: return hand my upon you and to refine like/as lye dross your and to turn aside: remove all tin your

And I turn back My hand on you, And I refine your dross as purity, And I turn aside all your tin,

26 and to return: rescue to judge you like/as in/on/with first and to advise you like/as in/on/with beginning after so to call: call by to/for you city [the] righteousness town be faithful

And I give back your judges as at the first, And your counselors as in the beginning, After this you are called, A city of righteousness—a faithful city.”

27 Zion in/on/with justice to ransom and to return: repent her in/on/with righteousness

Zion is redeemed in judgment, And her captivity in righteousness.

28 and breaking to transgress and sinner together and to leave: forsake LORD to end: destroy

And the destruction of transgressors and sinners [is] together, And those forsaking YHWH are consumed.

29 for be ashamed from terebinth which to desire and be ashamed from [the] garden which to choose

For [men] are ashamed because of the oaks That you have desired, And you are confounded because of the gardens That you have chosen.

30 for to be like/as oak to wither leaf her and like/as garden which water nothing to/for her

For you are as an oak whose leaf is fading, And as a garden that has no water.

31 and to be [the] strong to/for tow and work his to/for spark and to burn: burn two their together and nothing to quench

And the strong has been for tow, And his work for a spark, And both of them have burned together, And there is none quenching!