< 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 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 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, heavens, and listen, earth; for the LORD has spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
3 to know cattle to buy him and donkey crib master his Israel not to know people my not to understand
The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Israel doesn't know, my people do not understand.
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
Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly. They have forsaken the LORD. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
5 upon what? to smite still to add: again revolt all head to/for sickness and all heart faint
Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
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 even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven't been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.
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 country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate, 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
The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of cucumbers, like a besieged city.
9 unless LORD Hosts to remain to/for us survivor like/as little like/as Sodom to be to/for Gomorrah to resemble
Unless the LORD of hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have been as Sodom, and we would have been like Gomorrah.
10 to hear: hear word LORD chief Sodom to listen instruction God our people Gomorrah
Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom. Listen 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
"What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says the LORD. "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of 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 at 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
Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can't bear with evil assemblies.
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 hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.
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
When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are 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 yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
17 to learn: learn be good to seek justice to bless oppression to judge orphan to contend widow
Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead 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
"Come now, and let us reason together," says the LORD: "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 if be willing and to hear: obey goodness [the] land: country/planet to eat
If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;
20 and if to refuse and to rebel sword to eat for lip LORD to speak: speak
but if you refuse and rebel, the sword shall devour you; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it."
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 the faithful city has become a prostitute. She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but 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 wine mixed 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 rulers are rebellious, companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe, chasing after payoffs. They do not judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow 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 the LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, says: "Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself of 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 will turn my hand against you, and I will purge away your dross, and I will take away all your slag.
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
I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called 'The city of righteousness, a faithful town.'
27 Zion in/on/with justice to ransom and to return: repent her in/on/with righteousness
Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.
28 and breaking to transgress and sinner together and to leave: forsake LORD to end: destroy
But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
29 for be ashamed from terebinth which to desire and be ashamed from [the] garden which to choose
For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for 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 shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, 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
The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. They will both burn together, and no one will quench them."