Isaiah:1-3

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* The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz , which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of ‘Uzziyahu , Jotham , Achaz , and Hezekiah , the kings of Judah . * Hear , O ye heavens , and give ear , O earth ; for the Lord hath spoken : Children have I nourished and brought up , but they have rebelled against me . * The ox knoweth his owner , and the ass his master ’s crib : Israel doth not know , my people doth not consider . * Woe ! sinful nation , people laden with iniquity , seed of evil –doers , children that are corrupt : they have forsaken the Lord , they have incensed the Holy One of Israel , they are departed backward . * Why will ye be stricken yet more ? ye increase the revolt ? every head is sick , and every heart is faint . * From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it ; but wounds , and bruises , and putrefying sores : they have not been closed , nor bound up , nor mollified with oil . * Your country is desolate , your cities are burnt with fire ; your soil ––in your presence , strangers devour it , and it is desolate , as overthrown by strangers . * And left is the daughter of Zion as a hut in a vineyard , as a lodge in a cucumber field , as a besieged city . * Unless the Lord of hosts had left unto us a remnant ever so small , like Sodom should we have been , unto Gomorrah should we have been compared . * Hear the word of the Lord , ye rulers of Sodom : give ear unto the law of our God , ye people of Gomorrah . * For what serveth me the multitude of your sacrifices ? saith the Lord : I am sated with the burnt –offerings of rams , and the fat of fatted beasts ; and the blood of bullocks , and of sheep , and of he –goats , I do not desire . * When ye come to appear in my presence ––who hath required this at your hand , to tread down my courts ? * Continue no more to bring an oblation of deceit ; incense of abomination is it unto me : new moon and sabbath , the calling of assemblies ––I cannot bear misdeed with festive gathering . * Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth ; they are become a burden unto me ; I am weary to bear them , * And when ye spread forth your hands , I will withdraw my eyes from you ; yea , when ye make ever so many prayers , I will not hear : your hands are full of blood . * Wash yourselves , make yourselves clean ; put away the evil of your deeds from before my eyes ; cease to do evil ; * Learn to do well ; seek for justice , relieve the oppressed , do justice to the fatherless , plead for the widow . * Come now , and let us reason together , saith the Lord : though your sins should be as scarlet , they shall become white as the snow ; though they should be red like crimson , they shall become like wool . * If ye be willing and obey , the best of the land shall ye eat ; * But if ye refuse and rebel , by the sword shall ye be devoured ; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it . * How is she become a harlot , the faithful town ! she , that was full of justice ; righteousness lodged therein ; but now murderers . * Thy silver is become dross , thy wine is drugged with water ; * Thy princes are rebels , and companions of thieves ; every one loveth brides , and runneth after rewards ; to the fatherless they will not do justice , and the cause of the widow doth not come unto them . * Therefore saith the Lord , the Eternal of hosts , the mighty One of Israel , Ah , I will take satisfaction on my adversaries , and be avenged on my enemies . * And I will turn my hand against thee , and purge away as with lye thy dross , and remove all thy tin : * And I will restore thy judges as at the first , and thy counsellors as at the beginning ; after that shalt thou be called , The city of righteousness , the town that is faithful . * Zion shall be redeemed through justice , and her converts through righteousness . * But destruction shall come over transgressors and sinners together , and those that forsake the Lord shall perish . * For people shall be ashamed because of the terebinths which ye had desired , and ye shall be put to the blush because of the gardens that ye had chosen . * For ye shall be as a terebinth the leaves of which wither , and as a garden that hath no water . * And the mighty oppressor shall become as tow , and his workman as a spark ; and they shall both burn together , with none to quench . * The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz foresaw concerning Judah and Jerusalem . * And it shall come to pass in the last days , that the mountain of the Lord ’s house shall be firmly established on the top of the mountains , and shall be exalted above the hills ; and unto it shall flow all the nations . * And many people shall go and say , Come ye , and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord , to the house of the God of Jacob ; that he may teach us of his ways , and we may walk in his paths ; for out of Zion shall go forth the law , and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem . * And he will judge among the nations , and decide for many people ; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares , and their spears into pruning –knives : nation shall not lift up sword against nation , and they shall not learn any more war . * O house of Jacob , come ye , and let us walk in the light of the Lord . * For thou hast abandoned thy people , the house of Jacob , because they are full of more than the east , and are soothsayers like the Philistines , and with the children of strangers they unite themselves . * And full became their land of silver and gold , and there is no end to their treasures ; and full became their land of horses , and there is no end to their chariots ; * And full became their land of idols ; to the work of their own hands they bow themselves , to what their own fingers have made . * And so is bent down the son of earth , and humbled the man ; and thou wilt not forgive them . * Enter into the rock , and hide thee in the dust , because of the dread of the Lord , and because of the glory of his majesty . * The looks of human pride shall be humbled , and the haughtiness of men shall be bent down : and exalted shall be the Lord alone on that day . * For there is a day unto the Lord of hosts over every proud and lofty one ; and over every exalted one , that he be brought low ; * And over all the cedars of the Lebanon , the high and exalted , and over all the oaks of Bashan ; * And over all the high mountains , and over all the exalted hills ; * And over every high tower , and over every fortified wall ; * And over all the ships of Tharshish ; and over all desirable palaces . * And the pride of man shall be bent down , and the haughtiness of men shall be humbled : and exalted shall be the Lord alone on that day . * And the idols will he utterly abolish . * And men shall enter into the caverns of rocks , and into the rifts of the earth , because of the dread of the Lord , and because of the glory of his majesty , when he ariseth to terrify the earth . * On that day shall a man cast away his idols of silver , and his idols of gold , which have been made for him to worship , to the moles and to the bats ; * To enter into the clefts of the rocks , and into the hollows of the cliffs , because of the dread of the Lord , and because of the glory of his majesty , when he ariseth to terrify the earth . * Withdraw yourselves from man , whose breath is in his nostrils ; because , for what is he to be esteemed ? * For , behold , the Lord , the Eternal of hosts , doth remove from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff , every stay of bread , and every stay of water . * The hero , and the man of war , the judge , and the prophet , and the prudent , and the ancient , * The captain of fifty , and the honorable man , and the counsellor , and the skilful artificer , and the eloquent orator . * And I will set up boys as their princes , and children shall rule over them . * And so shall the people press man against man , and one against the other : the boy shall demean himself proudly against the ancient , and the base against the honorable . * When a man will seize hold on his brother in the house of his father , Thou hast a garment , thou shalt be our ruler , and let this ruin be under thy hand : * He will swear on that day , saying , I will not be a chief ; and in my house is neither bread nor clothing ; you shall not appoint me a ruler of the people . * For Jerusalem is sunk to decay , and Judah is fallen ; because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord , to incense the eyes of his glory . * The boldness of their face testifieth against them ; and like Sodom they tell openly their sin , they conceal it not . Woe unto their soul ! for they have prepared evil unto themselves . * Say ye to the righteous , that he hath done well ; for the fruit of their doings shall they eat . * Woe unto the wicked who doeth evil ; for the recompense of his hands shall be bestowed on him . * My people ! their oppressors are children , and women rule over them . O my people ! thy leaders cause thee to err , and the direction of thy paths they corrupt . * The Lord is stepped forth to plead , and standeth up to judge the people . * The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people , and their princes ; but ye ––ye have eaten up the vineyard ; the plunder of the poor is in your houses . * What mean ye that ye crush my people , and grind down the faces of the poor ? saith the Lord the Eternal of hosts . * And the Lord said , Forasmuch as the daughters of Zion are proud , and walk with stretched forth necks and casting about their eyes , walking and mincing as they go , and making a tinkling with their feet : * Therefore will the Lord smite with leprosy the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion , and the Lord will lay open their nakedness . * On that day will the Lord take away the beauty of their tinkling shoe –buckles , and the hair –nets , and the crescent –shaped ornaments , * The drops , and the bracelets , and the mufflers , * The bonnets , and the foot –chains , and the head –bands , and the tablets , and the earrings , * The finger –rings , and nose –jewels , * The changeable suits of apparel , and the mantles , and the shawls , and the pockets . * The mirrors , and the chemisettes , and the turbans , and the long vails . * And it shall come to pass , that instead of sweet smell there shall be corruption ; and instead of a girdle a rope ; and instead of curled hair baldness ; and instead of a wide garment a girding of sackcloth , a mark of burning instead of beauty . * Thy men shall fall by the sword , and thy mighty ones in the war . * And then shall her gates lament and mourn ; and stript of all shall she sit upon the ground . * And seven women shall take hold of one man on that day , saying , We will eat our own bread , and wear our own apparel : only let us be called by thy name , take but away our reproach .

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