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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. (1:1) com1 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 (1:2) The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider (1:3) 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 (1:4) Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint (1:5) 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 (1:6) 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 (1:7) 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 (1:8) 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 (1:9) Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah (1:10) 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 (1:11) When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? (1:12) 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 (1:13) Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [them] (1:14) 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 (1:15) Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; (1:16) Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow (1:17) 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 (1:18) If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: (1:19) But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken [it] (1:20) How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers (1:21) Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: (1:22) 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 (1:23) 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: (1:24) com2 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: (1:25) 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 (1:26) Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness (1:27) And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners [shall be] together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed (1:28) For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen (1:29) For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water (1:30) 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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