Isaiah 1

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¹ The vision of Isaias the son of Amos I which he saw concerning Juda and Jerusalem in the days of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda	¹ The vision which Isaiah, son of Amoz, had concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
² Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have despised me.	² Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth, for the LORD speaks: Sons have I raised and reared, but they have disowned me!
³ The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.	³ An ox knows its owner, and an ass, its master's manger; But Israel does not know, my people has not understood.
⁴ Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards.	⁴ Ah! sinful nation, people laden with wickedness, evil race, corrupt children! They have forsaken the LORD, spurned the Holy One of Israel, apostatized.
⁵ For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.	⁵ Where would you yet be struck, you that rebel again and again? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint.
⁶ From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no soundness therein: wounds and bruises and swelling sores: they are not bound up, nor dressed, nor fomented with oil.	⁶ From the sole of the foot to the head there is no sound spot: Wound and welt and gaping gash, not drained, or bandaged, or eased with salve.
⁷ Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your country strangers devour before your face, and it shall be desolate as when wasted by enemies.	⁷ Your country is waste, your cities burnt with fire; Your land before your eyes strangers devour (a waste, like Sodom overthrown)--
⁸ And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in a vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and as a city that is laid waste.	⁸ And daughter Zion is left like a hut in a vineyard, Like a shed in a melon patch, like a city blockaded.
⁹ Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrha.	⁹ Unless the LORD of hosts had left us a scanty remnant, We had become as Sodom, we should be like Gomorrah.
¹⁰ Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.	¹⁰ Hear the word of the LORD, princes of Sodom! Listen to the instruction of our God, people of Gomorrah!
¹¹ To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.	¹¹ What care I for the number of your sacrifices? says the LORD. I have had enough of whole-burnt rams and fat of fatlings; In the blood of calves, lambs and goats I find no pleasure.
¹² When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?	¹² When you come in to visit me, who asks these things of you?
¹³ Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination tome. The new moons, and the sabbaths, and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.	¹³ Trample my courts no more! Bring no more worthless offerings; your incense is loathsome to me. New moon and sabbath, calling of assemblies, octaves with wickedness: these I cannot bear.
¹⁴ My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.	¹⁴ Your new moons and festivals I detest; they weigh me down, I tire of the load.
¹⁵ And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.	¹⁵ When you spread out your hands, I close my eyes to you; Though you pray the more, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood!
¹⁶ Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely,	¹⁶ Wash yourselves clean! Put away your misdeeds from before my eyes; cease doing evil;
¹⁷ Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.	¹⁷ learn to do good. Make justice your aim: redress the wronged, hear the orphan's plea, defend the widow.
¹⁸ And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.	¹⁸ Come now, let us set things right, says the LORD: Though your sins be like scarlet, they may become white as snow; Though they be crimson red, they may become white as wool.
¹⁹ if you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.	¹⁹ If you are willing, and obey, you shall eat the good things of the land;
²⁰ But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.	²⁰ But if you refuse and resist, the sword shall consume you: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken!
²¹ How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.	²¹ How has she turned adulteress, the faithful city, so upright! Justice used to lodge within her, but now, murderers.
²² Thy silver is turned into dress: thy wine is mingled with water.	²² Your silver is turned to dross, your wine is mixed with water.
²³ Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, the run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cometh not in to them.	²³ Your princes are rebels and comrades of thieves; Each one of them loves a bribe and looks for gifts. The fatherless they defend not, and the widow's plea does not reach them.
²⁴ Therefore saith the Lord the God of hosts, the mighty one of Israel: Ah! I will comfort myself over my adversaries: and I will be revenged of my enemies.	²⁴ Now, therefore, says the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah! I will take vengeance on my foes and fully repay my enemies!
²⁵ And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dress, and I will take away all thy tin.	²⁵ I will turn my hand against you, and refine your dross in the furnace, removing all your alloy.
²⁶ And I will restore thy judges se they were before, and thy counsellors as of old. After this thou shalt be called the city of the just, a faithful city.	²⁶ I will restore your judges as at first, and your counselors as in the beginning; After that you shall be called city of justice, faithful city.
²⁷ Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring her back in justice.	²⁷ Zion shall be redeemed by judgment, and her repentant ones by justice.
²⁸ And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and they that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed.	²⁸ Rebels and sinners alike shall be crushed, those who desert the LORD shall be consumed.
²⁹ For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have chosen.	²⁹ You shall be ashamed of the terebinths which you prized, and blush for the groves which you chose.
³⁰ When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off, and as a garden without water.	³⁰ You shall become like a tree with falling leaves, like a garden that has no water.
³¹ And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a spark: and both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench it.	³¹ The strong man shall turn to tow, and his work shall become a spark; Both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench the flames.

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