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1:1  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.
1:2  Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
1:3  The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people do not consider.
1:4  Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a descendant of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they have turned away backward.
1:5  Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
1:6  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, neither bound up, neither soothed with ointment.
1:7  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.
1:8  And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a hut in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
1:9  Unless 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.
1:10  Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
1:11  To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? says 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 male goats.
1:12  When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
1:13  Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
1:14  Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary of bearing them.
1:15  And when you spread forth 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.
1:16  Wash you, make yourself clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;
1:17  Learn to do good; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
1:18  Come now, and let us reason together, says 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.
1:19  If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land:
1:20  But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
1:21  How has the faithful city become a harlot! it was full of justice; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
1:22  Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water:
1:23  Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come before them.
1:24  Therefore says the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will rid myself of my adversaries, and avenge myself of my enemies:
1:25  And I will turn my hand upon you, and thoroughly purge away your dross, and take away all your alloy:
1:26  And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning: afterward you shall be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
1:27  Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.
1:28  And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
1:29  For you shall be ashamed of the sacred oaks which you have desired, and you shall be embarrassed for the gardens that you have chosen.
1:30  For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.
1:31  And the strong shall be as tinder, and the work of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.