rwbs - Isaiah:1-5

rwbs@Isaiah:1:1 @ The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

rwbs@Isaiah:1:2 @ Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

rwbs@Isaiah:1:3 @ The ox knoweth his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib: Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

rwbs@Isaiah:1:4 @ Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they are gone away backward. (note:)laden: Hebrews. of heaviness(:note)gone…: Heb. alienated, or, separated

rwbs@Isaiah:1:5 @ Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. (note:)revolt…: Hebrews. increase revolt(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:1:6 @ From the sole of the foot even to the head no soundness in it; wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. (note:)ointment: or, oil(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:1:7 @ Your country desolate, your cities burned with fire: your land, foreigners devour it in your presence, and desolate, as overthrown by foreigners. (note:)overthrown…: Hebrews. the overthrow of(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:1:8 @ And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

rwbs@Isaiah:1:9 @ Except the LORD of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like Gomorrah.

rwbs@Isaiah:1:10 @ Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

rwbs@Isaiah:1:11 @ To what purpose the multitude of your sacrifices to 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 bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats. (note:)he goats: Hebrews. great he goats(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:1:12 @ When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? (note:)to appear: Hebrews. to be seen(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:1:13 @ Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination to me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure; iniquity, even the solemn meeting. (note:)iniquity: or, grief(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:1:14 @ Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble to me; I am weary of bearing.

rwbs@Isaiah:1:15 @ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. (note:)make…: Hebrews. multiply prayer(:note)blood: Heb. bloods

rwbs@Isaiah:1:16 @ Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;

rwbs@Isaiah:1:17 @ Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. (note:)relieve: or, righten(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:1:18 @ Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

rwbs@Isaiah:1:19 @ If ye are willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

rwbs@Isaiah:1:20 @ But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken.

rwbs@Isaiah:1:21 @ How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

rwbs@Isaiah:1:22 @ Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:

rwbs@Isaiah:1:23 @ Thy princes rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come to them.

rwbs@Isaiah:1:24 @ Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will rid myself of my adversaries, and avenge me of my enemies:

rwbs@Isaiah:1:25 @ And I will turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: (note:)purely: Hebrews. according to pureness(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:1:26 @ And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

rwbs@Isaiah:1:27 @ Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. (note:)her…: or, they that return of her(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:1:28 @ And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed. (note:)destruction: Hebrews. breaking(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:1:29 @ For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

rwbs@Isaiah:1:30 @ For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

rwbs@Isaiah:1:31 @ And the strong shall be as a wick, and its maker as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench. (note:)maker…: or, and his work(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:2:1 @ The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

rwbs@Isaiah:2:2 @ And it shall come to pass in the last days, the mount of the LORD’S house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it. (note:)established: or, prepared(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:2:3 @ 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; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

rwbs@Isaiah:2:4 @ And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. (note:)pruninghooks: or, scythes(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:2:5 @ O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

rwbs@Isaiah:2:6 @ Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, and soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of foreigners. (note:)from…: or, more than the(:note)please…: or, abound with the

rwbs@Isaiah:2:7 @ Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither end of their chariots:

rwbs@Isaiah:2:8 @ Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

rwbs@Isaiah:2:9 @ And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.

rwbs@Isaiah:2:10 @ Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.

rwbs@Isaiah:2:11 @ The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be abased, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

rwbs@Isaiah:2:12 @ For the day of the LORD of hosts upon every proud and lofty, and upon every lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

rwbs@Isaiah:2:13 @ And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

rwbs@Isaiah:2:14 @ And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills lifted up,

rwbs@Isaiah:2:15 @ And upon every high tower, and upon every fortified wall,

rwbs@Isaiah:2:16 @ And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures. (note:)pleasant…: Hebrews. pictures of desire(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:2:17 @ And the loftiness of man shall be abased, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

rwbs@Isaiah:2:18 @ And the idols he shall utterly abolish. (note:)he…: or, shall utterly pass away(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:2:19 @ 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 ariseth to shake terribly the earth. (note:)of the earth: Hebrews. of the dust(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:2:20 @ In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; (note:)his idols of silver…: Hebrews. the idols of his silver, etc(:note)each…: or, for him

rwbs@Isaiah:2:21 @ 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 ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

rwbs@Isaiah:2:22 @ Cease ye from man, whose breath in his nostrils: for why is he to be esteemed?

rwbs@Isaiah:3:1 @ For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the rod and the staff, the whole support of bread, and the whole support of water,

rwbs@Isaiah:3:2 @ The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,

rwbs@Isaiah:3:3 @ The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the skilful craftsman, and the eloquent orator. (note:)the honourable…: Hebrews. a man eminent in countenance(:note)eloquent…: or, skilful of speech

rwbs@Isaiah:3:4 @ And I will give children their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

rwbs@Isaiah:3:5 @ And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the elder, and the base against the honourable.

rwbs@Isaiah:3:6 @ When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father,, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and this ruin under thy hand:

rwbs@Isaiah:3:7 @ In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people. (note:)swear: Hebrews. lift up the hand(:note)healer: Heb. binder up

rwbs@Isaiah:3:8 @ For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

rwbs@Isaiah:3:9 @ The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide not. Woe to their soul! for they have rewarded evil to themselves.

rwbs@Isaiah:3:10 @ Say ye to the righteous, that well: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

rwbs@Isaiah:3:11 @ Woe to the wicked! ill: for the reward of his hands shall be given him. (note:)given…: Hebrews. done to him(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:3:12 @ my people, children their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they who lead thee cause to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. (note:)lead…: or, call thee blessed(:note)destroy: Hebrews. swallow up

rwbs@Isaiah:3:13 @ The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.

rwbs@Isaiah:3:14 @ The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and with their princes: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor in your houses. (note:)eaten: or, burnt(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:3:15 @ What mean ye ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

rwbs@Isaiah:3:16 @ Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with extended necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: (note:)wanton…: Hebrews. deceiving with their eyes(:note)mincing: or, tripping nicely

rwbs@Isaiah:3:17 @ Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will uncover their secret parts. (note:)discover: Hebrews. make naked(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:3:18 @ In that day the Lord will take away the show of tinkling anklets, and scarves, and necklaces like the moon, (note:)cauls: or, networks(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:3:19 @ The pendant, and the bracelets, and the veils, (note:)chains: or, sweet balls(:note)mufflers: or, spangled ornaments

rwbs@Isaiah:3:20 @ The headdresses, and the leg ornaments, and the headbands, and the perfume bottles, and the charms, (note:)tablets: Hebrews. houses of the soul(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:3:21 @ The rings, and nose jewels,

rwbs@Isaiah:3:22 @ The fine robes, and the mantles, and the outer garments, and the purses,

rwbs@Isaiah:3:23 @ The mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the veils.

rwbs@Isaiah:3:24 @ And it shall come to pass, instead of sweet smell there shall be a foul odour; and instead of a belt a rope; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a rich robe a girding of sackcloth; a brand instead of beauty.

rwbs@Isaiah:3:25 @ Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. (note:)mighty: Hebrews. might(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:3:26 @ And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she desolate shall sit upon the ground. (note:)desolate: or, emptied: Hebrews. cleansed(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:4:1 @ And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach. (note:)let…: Hebrews. let thy name be called upon us(:note)to take…: or, take thou away

rwbs@Isaiah:4:2 @ In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth the pride and glory of them that have escaped of Israel. (note:)beautiful…: Hebrews. beauty and glory(:note)them…: Heb. the escaping

rwbs@Isaiah:4:3 @ And it shall come to pass, left in Zion, and remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: (note:)among…: or, to life(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:4:4 @ When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst of it by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

rwbs@Isaiah:4:5 @ And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory a defence. (note:)upon all: or, above all(:note)defence: Hebrews. covering

rwbs@Isaiah:4:6 @ And there shall be a tabernacle for shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.

rwbs@Isaiah:5:1 @ Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: (note:)a very…: Hebrews. the horn of the son of oil(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:5:2 @ And he dug it, and removed its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it: and he expected that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. (note:)fenced: or, made a wall about(:note)made: Hebrews. hewed

rwbs@Isaiah:5:3 @ And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.

rwbs@Isaiah:5:4 @ What more could have been done to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I expected that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

rwbs@Isaiah:5:5 @ And now come; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; break down the wall of it, and it shall be trodden down: (note:)trodden…: Hebrews. for a treading(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:5:6 @ And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dug; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

rwbs@Isaiah:5:7 @ For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry. (note:)his…: Hebrews. plant of his pleasures(:note)oppression: Heb. a scab

rwbs@Isaiah:5:8 @ Woe to them that join house to house, lay field to field, till no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! (note:)they: Hebrews. ye(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:5:9 @ In my ears the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, great and fair, without inhabitant. (note:)In…: or, This is in mine ears, saith the LORD, etc(:note)Of a…: Hebrews. If not, etc

rwbs@Isaiah:5:10 @ Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

rwbs@Isaiah:5:11 @ Woe to them that rise early in the morning, they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, wine inflames them! (note:)inflame: of, pursue(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:5:12 @ And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

rwbs@Isaiah:5:13 @ Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because no knowledge: and their honourable men famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. (note:)honourable…: Hebrews. glory are men of famine(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:5:14 @ Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

rwbs@Isaiah:5:15 @ And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be abased:

rwbs@Isaiah:5:16 @ But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness. (note:)God…: or, the holy God: Hebrews. the God the holy(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:5:17 @ Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

rwbs@Isaiah:5:18 @ Woe to them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

rwbs@Isaiah:5:19 @ That say, Let him make speed, hasten his work, that we may see: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know!

rwbs@Isaiah:5:20 @ Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (note:)call…: Hebrews. say concerning evil, It is good, etc(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:5:21 @ Woe to wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! (note:)in their own sight: Hebrews. before their face(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:5:22 @ Woe to mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink:

rwbs@Isaiah:5:23 @ Who justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

rwbs@Isaiah:5:24 @ Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. (note:)fire: Hebrews. tongue of fire(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:5:25 @ Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills trembled, and their dead bodies torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand stretched out still. (note:)torn: or, as dung(:note)

rwbs@Isaiah:5:26 @ And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from afar, and will hiss to them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:

rwbs@Isaiah:5:27 @ None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

rwbs@Isaiah:5:28 @ Whose arrows sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:

rwbs@Isaiah:5:29 @ Their roaring like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry away safe, and none shall deliver.

rwbs@Isaiah:5:30 @ And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if looketh to the land, behold darkness sorrow, and the light is darkened in its heavens. (note:)sorrow: or, distress(:note)and the light…: or, when it is light, it shall be dark in the destructions thereof

rwbs@Isaiah:6:1 @ In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. (note:)his…: or, the skirts thereof(:note)