Isaiah 1

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(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.
(Isa 1:2) 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.
(Isa 1:3) The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: {but} Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
(Isa 1:4) 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.
(Isa 1:5) Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
(Isa 1:6) 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.
(Isa 1:7) 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.
(Isa 1:8) 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.
(Isa 1:9) 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.
(Isa 1:10) Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
(Isa 1:11) 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.
(Isa 1:12) When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
(Isa 1:13) 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.
(Isa 1:14) Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear {them}.
(Isa 1:15) 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.
(Isa 1:16) Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
(Isa 1:17) Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
(Isa 1:18) 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.
(Isa 1:19) If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
(Isa 1:20) But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken {it}.
(Isa 1:21) How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
(Isa 1:22) Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
(Isa 1:23) 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.
(Isa 1:24) 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:
(Isa 1:25) And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
(Isa 1:26) 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.
(Isa 1:27) Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
(Isa 1:28) And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners {shall be} together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
(Isa 1:29) For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
(Isa 1:30) For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
(Isa 1:31) 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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