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Isaiah 1 📜 📕 ↷
Judah's Rebellion
1 THE vision of Isaie the son of Amos, which he saw concerning Juda and Jerusalem in the days of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda.📜💬📚
2 Hear ye heavens, & give ear o earth, because our Lord hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have despised me.📜💬📚
3 The oxe hath known his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.📜💬📚
4 Woe to the sinful nation, the people laden with grievous iniquity, the wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken our Lord, they have blasphemed the holy one of Israel, they are revolted backwards.📜💬📚
5 For what shall I strike you any more, which add prevarication? Every head is sick, & every heart in heaviness.📜💬📚
6 From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no health therein: wound, and wail, and swelling stroke: it is not bound up, nor cured with medicine, nor mollified with oil.📜💬📚
7 Your land is desolate, your cities burnt with fire: your country strangers devour before your face, and it shall be made desolate as in the spoil of enemies.📜💬📚
8 And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a vineyard, and as a cottage in a place of cucumbers, and as a city that is wasted.📜💬📚
9 Unless the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom, and we should be like to Gomorrha.📜💬📚
Meaningless Offerings
10 Hear the word of our Lord ye Princes of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God ye people of Gomorrha.📜💬📚
11 To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith our Lord? I am full, the holocaust of rams, and the fat of fatlings, and the blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats I have not desired.📜💬📚
12 When you should have come before my sight, who sought for these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?📜💬📚
13 Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is abomination to me. The New moon, and the Sabbath, and other festivities I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.📜💬📚
14 My soul hateth your Calends, and your solemnities: they are become tedious to me, I have laboured in sustaining.📜💬📚
15 And when you shall stretch forth your hands, I will turn away mine eyes from you: & when you shall multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.📜💬📚
16 Wash you, be clean, take away the evil of your cogitations from mine eyes: cease to do perversely,📜💬📚
17 Learn to do good: seek judgement, succour the oppressed, judge for the pupil, defend the widow.📜💬📚
18 And come, and accuse me, saith our Lord: if your sins shall be as scarlet, they shall be made white as snow: and if they be red as vermilion, they shall be white as wool.📜💬📚
19 If you be willing, and will hear me, you shall eat the good things of the earth.📜💬📚
20 But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you, because the mouth of our Lord hath spoken.📜💬📚
Corruption of Zion
21 How is the faithful city full of judgement become an harlot? Justice hath dwelled in it, but now mankillers.📜💬📚
22 Thy silver is turned into dross: thy wine is mingled with water.📜💬📚
23 Thy princes are unfaithful, companions of thieves: all love gifts, follow rewards. They judge not for the pupil: and the widow's cause goeth not in to them.📜💬📚
24 For this cause saith our Lord the God of hosts the mighty one of Israel: Alas! I will comfort my self upon mine adversaries: and will be revenged of mine enemies.📜💬📚
25 And I will turn mine hand to thee, and I will boil out thy dross till it be pure, & will take away all thy tin.📜💬📚
26 And I will restore thy judges as they have been before, and thy counsellers as of old. After these things thou shalt be called the just, a faithful city.📜💬📚
27 Sion shall be redeemed in judgement, and they shall bring her back in justice.📜💬📚
28 And he shall destroy the wicked and the sinners together: and they that have forsaken our 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 chose.📜💬📚
30 When you shall be as an oak the leaves falling off, and as a garden without water.📜💬📚
31 And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a spark: and both shall be set on together, and there shall be none to quench it.📜💬📚
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