| 1 ¶ 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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| 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.
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| 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
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| 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden1 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 gone2 away backward.
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| 5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt3 more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
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| 6 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.4
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| 7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown5 by strangers.
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| 8 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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| 9 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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| 10 ¶ 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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| 11 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.6
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| 12 When ye come to appear7 before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
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| 13 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,8 even the solemn meeting.
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| 14 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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| 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make9 many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.10
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| 16 ¶ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
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| 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve11 the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
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| 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.
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| 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
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| 20 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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| 21 ¶ How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
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| 22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
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| 23 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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| 24 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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| 25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely12 purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
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| 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.
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| 27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her13 converts with righteousness.
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| 28 And the destruction14 of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
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| 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.
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| 30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
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| 31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker15 of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
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