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ישעיה

ISAIAH

1The 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.

²Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth,

For the Lord hath spoken:

Children I have reared, and brought up,

And they have rebelled against Me.

³The ox knoweth his owner,

And the ass his master's crib;

But Israel doth not know,

My people doth not consider.

 

⁴Ah sinful nation,

A people laden with iniquity,

A seed of evil-doers,

Children that deal corruptly;

They have forsaken the Lord,

They have contemned the Holy One of Israel,

They are turned away backward.

⁵On what part will ye yet be stricken,

Seeing ye stray away more and more?

The whole head is sick,

And the whole heart faint;

⁶From the sole of the foot even unto the head

There is no soundness in it;

But wounds, and bruises, and festering sores:

They have not been pressed, neither bound up,

Neither mollified with oil.

⁷Your country is desolate;

Your cities are burned with fire;

Your land, strangers devour it in your presence,

And it is desolate, as overthrown by floods.

⁸And the daughter of Zion is left

As a booth in a vineyard,

As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers,

As a besieged city.

⁹Except the Lord of hosts

Had left unto us a very small remnant,

We should have been as Sodom,

We should have been like unto Gomorrah.

 

¹⁰Hear the word of the Lord,

Ye rulers of Sodom;

Give ear unto the law of our God,

Ye people of Gomorrah.

¹¹To 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.

¹²When ye come to appear before Me,

Who hath required this at your hand,

To trample My courts?

¹³Bring no more vain oblations;

It is an offering of abomination unto Me;

New moon and sabbath, the holding of convocations—

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