[[Song of Solomon 8|<< Song of Solomon 8]] | [[Isaiah|Isaiah]] | [[Isaiah 2|Isaiah 2 >>]] ### 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. ^1 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. ^2 3 The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: _but_ Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. ^3 4 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. ^4 5 ¶ Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ^5 6 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. ^6 7 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. ^7 8 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. ^8 9 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. ^9 10 ¶ Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. ^10 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. ^11 12 When ye come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to tread my courts? ^12 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. ^13 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear _them_. ^14 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. ^15 16 ¶ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; ^16 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. ^17 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. ^18 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: ^19 20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken _it_. ^20 21 ¶ How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. ^21 22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: ^22 23 Thy princes _are_ rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. ^23 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: ^24 25 ¶ And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: ^25 26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city. ^26 27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. ^27 28 ¶ And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners _shall_ _be_ together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed. ^28 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. ^29 30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water. ^30 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_. ^31