< Isaiah 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.
vision Isaiah son: child Amoz which to see upon Judah and Jerusalem in/on/with day Uzziah Jotham Ahaz Hezekiah king Judah
2 Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for the LORD has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.
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
3 The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”
to know cattle to buy him and donkey crib master his Israel not to know people my not to understand
4 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.
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
5 Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
upon what? to smite still to add: again revolt all head to/for sickness and all heart faint
6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.
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
7 Your country is desolate. Your cities are burnt with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
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
8 The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.
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
9 Unless the LORD of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom. We would have been like Gomorrah.
unless LORD Hosts to remain to/for us survivor like/as little like/as Sodom to be to/for Gomorrah to resemble
10 Hear the LORD’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
to hear: hear word LORD chief Sodom to listen instruction God our people Gomorrah
11 “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 don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
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
12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
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
13 Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations— I can’t stand evil assemblies.
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
14 My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.
month: new moon your and meeting: festival your to hate soul my to be upon me to/for burden be weary to lift: bear
15 When you spread out 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.
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
16 Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
to wash: wash to clean to turn aside: remove evil deed your from before eye my to cease be evil
17 Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
to learn: learn be good to seek justice to bless oppression to judge orphan to contend widow
18 “Come now, and let’s reason together,” says the LORD: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
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
19 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;
if be willing and to hear: obey goodness [the] land: country/planet to eat
20 but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword; for the LORD’s mouth has spoken it.”
and if to refuse and to rebel sword to eat for lip LORD to speak: speak
21 How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice. Righteousness lodged in her, but now there are murderers.
how? to be to/for to fornicate town be faithful full justice righteousness to lodge in/on/with her and now to murder
22 Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.
silver: money your to be to/for dross liquor your to weaken in/on/with water
23 Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
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
24 Therefore the Lord, GOD of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: “Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself on my enemies.
to/for so utterance [the] lord LORD Hosts mighty Israel woe! to be sorry: comfort from enemy my and to avenge from enemy my
25 I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.
and to return: return hand my upon you and to refine like/as lye dross your and to turn aside: remove all tin your
26 I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counsellors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness, a faithful town.’
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
27 Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.
Zion in/on/with justice to ransom and to return: repent her in/on/with righteousness
28 But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
and breaking to transgress and sinner together and to leave: forsake LORD to end: destroy
29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.
for be ashamed from terebinth which to desire and be ashamed from [the] garden which to choose
30 For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.
for to be like/as oak to wither leaf her and like/as garden which water nothing to/for her
31 The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. They will both burn together, and no one will quench them.”
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