Bible, King James Version
Isaiah
Isa.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.
[2] 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.
[3] The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's
crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
[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.
[5] Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt
more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart
faint.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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 counsellers 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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