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.
02 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.
03 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his
master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my
people doth not consider.
04 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.
05 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will
revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and
the whole heart faint.
06 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.
07 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.
08 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.
09 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.
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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 counsellors 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.
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