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 Uzziah , Jotham , Ahaz , [and ] Hezekiah , kings of Judah . * Hear , O heavens , and give ear , O earth ; for the LORD has spoken , I have nursed and brought up sons , and they have rebelled against Me . * The ox knows his owner , and the ass his master 's crib ; [but ] Israel does not know ; My people do not understand . * Woe , sinful nation , a people heavy [with ] iniquity , a seed of evildoers , sons who corrupt ! They have forsaken the LORD ; they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger ; they have gone away backward . * Why should you be stricken any more ? You will revolt more and more ; the whole head is sick , and the whole heart faint . * From the sole of the foot even to the head [there is ] no soundness in it ; [only ] a wound and a stripe and a fresh blow ; they have not been closed , nor bound up , nor soothed with oil . * Your land [is ] wasted , your cities burned with fire . Strangers devour your land right before your eyes , and [it is ] wasted , as overthrown by strangers . * And the daughter of Zion is left a booth in a vineyard , like a hut in a garden of cucumbers , like a besieged city . * Except the LORD of hosts had left us a very small remnant , we would be as Sodom ; we would be like Gomorrah . * Hear the Word of the LORD , rulers of Sodom ; give ear to the law of our God , people of Gomorrah . * To what purpose [is ] the multitude of your sacrifices to Me ? says the LORD ; I am full of the burnt offerings of rams , and the fat of fed beasts ; and I do not delight in [the blood of ] bulls , or of lambs , or of he-goats . * When you come to appear before Me , who has required this at your hand , to trample My courts ? * Bring no more vain sacrifice ; incense is an abomination to Me ; the new moon and sabbath , the going to meeting ; I cannot endure evil and the assembly ! * Your new moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates ; they are a trouble to Me ; I am weary to bear [them ]. * And when you spread out your hands , I will hide My eyes from you ; yea , when you make many prayers , I will not hear ; your hands are full of blood . * Wash yourselves , make yourselves clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes ; cease to do evil ; * learn to do good ; seek judgment , reprove the oppressor . Judge the orphan , plead for the widow . * Come now , and let us reason together , says the LORD ; though your sins are as scarlet , they shall be as white as snow ; though they are red like crimson , they shall be like wool . * If you are willing and obedient , you shall eat the good of the land ; * but if you refuse and rebel , you shall be devoured [with ] the sword ; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken . * How has the faithful city become a harlot ? [It was ] full of judgment ; righteousness lodged in it , but now murderers . * Your silver has become dross , your wine mixed with water ; * your rulers [are ] rebellious , and companions of thieves ; everyone loves a bribe , and is pursuing rewards ; they do not judge the orphan , nor does the cause of the widow come to them . * And the Lord , Jehovah of Hosts , the mighty One of Israel , says , Alas ! I will ease Myself of My foes , and avenge Myself of My enemies . * And I will turn back My hand on you , and purge away your dross as with lye , and take away all your alloy . * And I will restore your judges as at first , and your counselors as at the beginning ; afterwards you shall be called the city of righteousness , the faithful city . * Zion shall be redeemed with judgment , and her returning ones with righteousness . * And the downfall of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together ; and those who forsake the LORD [shall be ] consumed . * For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired , and you shall be ashamed for the gardens which you have chosen . * For you shall be like an oak whose leaf fades , and like a garden that has no water . * And the strong shall be like tow , and the maker of it as a spark , and they shall both burn together , and none shall put [them ] out . * The Word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem . * And it shall be , in the last days the mountain of the LORD 's house shall be established in the top of the mountains , and shall be exalted above the hills ; and all nations shall flow into it . * And many people shall go and say , Come , and let us go to the mountain of the LORD , to the house of the God of Jacob . And He will teach us of His ways , and we will walk in His paths . For out of Zion shall go out the Law , and the Word of the LORD from Jerusalem . * And He shall judge among the nations , and shall rebuke many people ; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares , and their spears into pruning-hooks . Nation shall not lift up sword against nation , neither shall they learn war any more . * O house of Jacob , come and let us walk in the light of the LORD . * For You have forsaken Your people the house of Jacob , because they have become full from the east , and [are ] fortune-tellers like the Philistines . And they clap their [hands ] with the children of strangers . * And their land is full of silver and gold . [There is ] no end of their treasures and their land is full of horses ; nor an end of their chariots . * And their land is full of idols ; they worship the work of their own hands , that which their own fingers have made . * And the man bowed down , and man was humbled , but You do not lift them up . * Enter into the rock and hide in the dust for fear of the LORD , and for the glory of His majesty . * The lofty looks of man shall be humbled , and the pride of men shall be bowed down , and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day . * For the day of the LORD of hosts [shall be ] on every proud and lofty one , and on every lifted up one ; and he [shall be ] brought low , * And it shall be on all the high and lifted up cedars of Lebanon , and on all the oaks of Bashan , * and on all the high mountains , and on all the lifted up hills ; * and on every high tower , and on every fortified wall ; * and on all the ships of Tarshish , and on all pleasurable craft . * And the pride of man shall be bowed down , and the loftiness of men shall be made low ; and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day . * And the idols shall completely vanish . * And they shall go into the holes of the rocks , and into the caves of the earth for fear of the LORD and for the glory of His majesty , when He arises to shake the earth terribly . * In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver , and his idols of gold , which they made for him to worship , to the moles and to the bats ; * to go into the clefts of the rocks , and into the tops of the ragged rocks , for fear of the LORD and for the glory of His majesty , when He arises to shake the earth terribly . * Cease from man , whose breath [is ] in his nostril ; for in what is he to be esteemed ? * For behold , the Lord , the LORD of hosts , takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff , the whole stay of bread and the whole stay of water , * the mighty man , 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 adviser , and the skilled worker , and the expert charmer . * And I will give young boys [to be ] their rulers , and caprices shall rule over them . * And the people shall be crushed , every man by another , and every man by his neighbor ; the boy shall act proudly against the old man , and the low against the honorable . * When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father , [saying ], You have clothing , you be our ruler , and let this ruin be under your hand ; * in that day he shall swear , saying , I will not be a healer ; there [is ] no bread nor a cloak in my house . You shall not make me a ruler of the people . * For Jerusalem is ruined and Judah has fallen ; because their tongue and their doings [are ] against the LORD , to provoke the eyes of His glory . * The look of their faces witnesses against them ; and they declare their sin like Sodom . They do not hide [it ]! Woe to their soul ! For they have rewarded evil to themselves . * Say to the righteous that [it is ] well ; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings . * Woe to the wicked ! For the evil doing of his hand will be done to him . * [As for ] my people , children [are ] their taskmasters , and women rule over them . Oh my people , your rulers cause [you ] to go astray and destroy the way of your paths . * The LORD stands up to plead His case , and stands up to judge the people . * The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of His people , and their kings ; for you have eaten up the vineyard ; the spoil of the poor [is ] in your houses . * What do you mean ? You crush My people and grind the faces of the poor ? says the Lord , Jehovah of hosts . * And the LORD says , Because the daughters of Zion are proud , and have walked with stretched out necks and wanton eyes , walking and mincing [as ] they go , and making a tinkling with their feet ; * therefore the LORD will strike with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion , and the LORD will make their secret parts naked . * In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of ankle-bracelets , and the headbands , and the crescents , * the pendants , and the bracelets , and the veils ; * the headdresses , and the leg ornaments , and the sashes , and the houses of the soul , and the amulets ; * the rings and nose jewels ; * the festal apparel and the outer garments ; and the mantles , and the purses ; * the mirrors and the fine linen ; and the turbans and the veils . * And it shall be , instead of sweet smell , there shall be an odor of decay ; and instead of a sash , a rope ; and instead of well-set hair , baldness ; and instead of a rich robe , a wrapping of sackcloth ; burning instead of beauty . * Your men shall fall by the sword , and your mighty in the war . * And her gates shall lament and mourn ; and she shall sit deserted on the ground . * And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man , saying , we will eat our own bread and wear our own clothing ; only let us be called by your name , to take away our shame .

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