Isaiah:1-4
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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 .
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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 .
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The ox knoweth his owner ,
and the ass his master '
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but Israel doth not know ,
my people doth not consider .
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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 unto anger ,
they are gone away backward .
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Why should ye be stricken any more ?
ye will revolt more and more :
the whole head is sick ,
and the whole heart faint .
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From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it ;
but wounds ,
and bruises ,
and putrifying sores :
they have not been closed ,
neither bound up ,
neither mollified with ointment .
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Your country is desolate ,
your cities are burned with fire :
your land ,
strangers devour it in your presence ,
and it is desolate ,
as overthrown by strangers .
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And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard ,
as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers ,
as a besieged city .
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Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant ,
we should have been as Sodom ,
and we should have been like unto Gomorrah .
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Hear the word of the LORD ,
ye rulers of Sodom ;
give ear unto the law of our God ,
ye people of Gomorrah .
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To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto 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 bullocks ,
or of lambs ,
or of he goats .
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When ye come to appear before me ,
who hath required this at your hand ,
to tread my courts ?
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Bring no more vain oblations ;
incense is an abomination unto me ;
the new moons and sabbaths ,
the calling of assemblies ,
I cannot away with ;
it is iniquity ,
even the solemn meeting .
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Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth :
they are a trouble unto me ;
I am weary to bear them .
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And when ye spread forth your hands ,
I will hide mine eyes from you :
yea ,
when ye make many prayers ,
I will not hear :
your hands are full of blood .
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Wash you ,
make you clean ;
put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes ;
cease to do evil ;
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Learn to do well ;
seek judgment ,
relieve the oppressed ,
judge the fatherless ,
plead for the widow .
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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 .
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If ye be willing and obedient ,
ye shall eat the good of the land :
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But if ye refuse and rebel ,
ye shall be devoured with the sword :
for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it .
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How is the faithful city become an harlot !
it was full of judgment ;
righteousness lodged in it ;
but now murderers .
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Thy silver is become dross ,
thy wine mixed with water :
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Thy princes are rebellious ,
and companions of thieves :
every one loveth gifts ,
and followeth after rewards :
they judge not the fatherless ,
neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them .
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Therefore saith the Lord ,
the LORD of hosts ,
the mighty One of Israel ,
Ah ,
I will ease me of mine adversaries ,
and avenge me of mine enemies :
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And I will turn my hand upon thee ,
and purely purge away thy dross ,
and take away all thy tin :
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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 .
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Zion shall be redeemed with judgment ,
and her converts with righteousness .
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And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together ,
and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed .
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For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired ,
and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen .
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For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth ,
and as a garden that hath no water .
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And the strong shall be as tow ,
and the maker of it as a spark ,
and they shall both burn together ,
and none shall quench them .
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The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem .
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And it shall come to pass in the last days ,
that 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 unto it .
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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 .
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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 .
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O house of Jacob ,
come ye ,
and let us walk in the light of the LORD .
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Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob ,
because they be replenished from the east ,
and are soothsayers like the Philistines ,
and they please themselves in the children of strangers .
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Their land also is full of silver and gold ,
neither is there any end of their treasures ;
their land is also full of horses ,
neither is there any end of their chariots :
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Their land also is full of idols ;
they worship the work of their own hands ,
that which their own fingers have made :
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And the mean man boweth down ,
and the great man humbleth himself :
therefore forgive them not .
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Enter into the rock ,
and hide thee in the dust ,
for fear of the LORD ,
and for the glory of his majesty .
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The lofty looks of man shall be humbled ,
and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down ,
and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day .
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For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty ,
and upon every one that is lifted up ;
and he shall be brought low :
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And upon all the cedars of Lebanon ,
that are high and lifted up ,
and upon all the oaks of Bashan ,
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And upon all the high mountains ,
and upon all the hills that are lifted up ,
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And upon every high tower ,
and upon every fenced wall ,
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And upon all the ships of Tarshish ,
and upon all pleasant pictures .
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And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down ,
and the haughtiness of men shall be made low :
and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day .
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And the idols he shall utterly abolish .
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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 .
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In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver ,
and his idols of gold ,
which they made each one for himself to worship ,
to the moles and to the bats ;
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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 .
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Cease ye from man ,
whose breath is in his nostrils :
for wherein is he to be accounted of ?
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For ,
behold ,
the Lord ,
the LORD of hosts ,
doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff ,
the whole stay of bread ,
and the whole stay of water ,
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The mighty man ,
and the man of war ,
the judge ,
and the prophet ,
and the prudent ,
and the ancient ,
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The captain of fifty ,
and the honourable man ,
and the counsellor ,
and the cunning artificer ,
and the eloquent orator .
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And I will give children to be their princes ,
and babes shall rule over them .
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And the people shall be oppressed ,
every one by another ,
and every one by his neighbour :
the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient ,
and the base against the honourable .
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When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father ,
saying ,
Thou hast clothing ,
be thou our ruler ,
and let this ruin be under thy hand :
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In that day shall he swear ,
saying ,
I will not be an healer ;
for in my house is neither bread nor clothing :
make me not a ruler of the people .
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For Jerusalem is ruined ,
and Judah is fallen :
because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD ,
to provoke the eyes of his glory .
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The shew of their countenance doth witness against them ;
and they declare their sin as Sodom ,
they hide it not .
Woe unto their soul !
for they have rewarded evil unto themselves .
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Say ye to the righteous ,
that it shall be well with him :
for they shall eat the fruit of their doings .
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Woe unto the wicked !
it shall be ill with him :
for the reward of his hands shall be given him .
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As for my people ,
children are their oppressors ,
and women rule over them .
O my people ,
they which lead thee cause thee to err ,
and destroy the way of thy paths .
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The LORD standeth up to plead ,
and standeth to judge the people .
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The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people ,
and the princes thereof :
for ye have eaten up the vineyard ;
the spoil of the poor is in your houses .
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What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces ,
and grind the faces of the poor ?
saith the Lord GOD of hosts .
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Moreover the LORD saith ,
Because the daughters of Zion are haughty ,
and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes ,
walking and mincing as they go ,
and making a tinkling with their feet :
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Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion ,
and the LORD will discover their secret parts .
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In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet ,
and their cauls ,
and their round tires like the moon ,
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The chains ,
and the bracelets ,
and the mufflers ,
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The bonnets ,
and the ornaments of the legs ,
and the headbands ,
and the tablets ,
and the earrings ,
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The rings ,
and nose jewels ,
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The changeable suits of apparel ,
and the mantles ,
and the wimples ,
and the crisping pins ,
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The glasses ,
and the fine linen ,
and the hoods ,
and the vails .
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And it shall come to pass ,
that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink ;
and instead of a girdle a rent ;
and instead of well set hair baldness ;
and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth ;
and burning instead of beauty .
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Thy men shall fall by the sword ,
and thy mighty in the war .
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And her gates shall lament and mourn ;
and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground .
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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 .
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In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious ,
and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel .
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And it shall come to pass ,
that he that is left in Zion ,
and he that remaineth in Jerusalem ,
shall be called holy ,
even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem :
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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 thereof by the spirit of judgment ,
and by the spirit of burning .
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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 shall be a defence .
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And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat ,
and for a place of refuge ,
and for a covert from storm and from rain .
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Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard .
My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill :