Isaiah 1:17-2:22

New King James Version

¹⁸ “Come now, and let us ^(A)reason together,”
Says the Lord,
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
^(B)They shall be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They shall be as wool.
¹⁹ If you are willing and obedient,
You shall eat the good of the land;
²⁰ But if you refuse and rebel,
You shall be devoured by the sword”;
^(C)For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

²⁴ Therefore the Lord says,
The Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel,
“Ah, ^(K)I will ^[d]rid Myself of My adversaries,
And ^[e]take vengeance on My enemies.
²⁵ I will turn My hand against you,
And ^(L)thoroughly^[f] purge away your dross,
And take away all your alloy.
²⁶ I will restore your judges ^(M)as at the first,
And your counselors as at the beginning.
Afterward ^(N)you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.”

²⁷ Zion shall be redeemed with justice,
And her ^[g]penitents with righteousness.
²⁸ The ^(O)destruction of transgressors and of sinners shall be together,
And those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
²⁹ For ^[h]they shall be ashamed of the ^[i]terebinth trees
Which you have desired;
And you shall be embarrassed because of the gardens
Which you have chosen.
³⁰ For you shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fades,
And as a garden that has no water.
^31 (P)The strong shall be as tinder,
And the work of it as a spark;
Both will burn together,
And no one shall ^(Q)quench them.

² Now ^(S)it shall come to pass ^(T)in the latter days
^(U)That the mountain 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.
³ Many people shall come and say,
^(V)“Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
He will teach us His ways,
And we shall walk in His paths.”
^(W)For out of Zion shall go forth the law,
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
⁴ He shall judge between the nations,
And rebuke many people;
They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
And their spears into pruning ^[j]hooks;
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Neither shall they learn war anymore.

⁶ For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob,
Because they are filled ^(Y)with eastern ways;
They are ^(Z)soothsayers like the Philistines,
^(AA)And they ^[k]are pleased with the children of foreigners.
^7 (AB)Their land is also full of silver and gold,
And there is no end to their treasures;
Their land is also full of horses,
And there is no end to their chariots.
^8 (AC)Their land is also full of idols;
They worship the work of their own hands,
That which their own fingers have made.
⁹ People bow down,
And each man humbles himself;
Therefore do not forgive them.

^10 (AD)Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust,
From the terror of the Lord
And the glory of His majesty.
¹¹ The ^[l]lofty looks of man shall be ^(AE)humbled,
The haughtiness of men shall be bowed down,
And the Lord alone shall be exalted ^(AF)in that day.

¹² For the day of the Lord of hosts
Shall come upon everything proud and lofty,
Upon everything lifted up—
And it shall be brought low—
¹³ Upon all ^(AG)the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up,
And upon all the oaks of Bashan;
^14 (AH)Upon all the high mountains,
And upon all the hills that are lifted up;
¹⁵ Upon every high tower,
And upon every fortified wall;
^16 (AI)Upon all the ships of Tarshish,
And upon all the beautiful sloops.
¹⁷ The ^[m]loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low;
The Lord alone will be exalted in that day,
¹⁸ But the idols ^[n]He shall utterly abolish.

¹⁹ They shall go into the ^(AJ)holes of the rocks,
And into the caves of the ^[o]earth,
^(AK)From the terror of the Lord
And the glory of His majesty,
When He arises ^(AL)to shake the earth mightily.

²⁰ In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver
And his idols of gold,
Which they made, each for himself to worship,
To the moles and bats,
²¹ To go into the clefts of the rocks,
And into the crags of the rugged rocks,
From the terror of the Lord
And the glory of His majesty,
When He arises to shake the earth mightily.

^22 (AM)Sever^[p] yourselves from such a man,
Whose ^(AN)breath is in his nostrils;
For ^[q]of what account is he?