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Isaiah 1-6
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Isaiah 1-6
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1 The (A)vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem (B)in the days of (C)Uzziah, (D)Jotham, (E)Ahaz, and (F)Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
The Wickedness of Judah
2 (G)Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O (H)earth;
for the Lord has spoken:
“Children[a] (I)have I reared and brought up,
but they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox (J)knows its owner,
and the donkey its master's crib,
but Israel does (K)not know,
my people do not understand.”
4 Ah, sinful nation,
a people laden with iniquity,
(L)offspring of evildoers,
children who deal corruptly!
They have forsaken the Lord,
they have (M)despised (N)the Holy One of Israel,
they are utterly (O)estranged.
5 Why will you still be (P)struck down?
Why will you (Q)continue to rebel?
The whole head is sick,
and the whole heart faint.
6 (R)From the sole of the foot even to the head,
there is no soundness in it,
but bruises and sores
and raw wounds;
they are (S)not pressed out or bound up
or softened with oil.
7 (T)Your country lies desolate;
your cities are burned with fire;
in your very presence
foreigners devour your land;
it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.
8 And (U)the daughter of Zion is left
like a (V)booth in a vineyard,
like a lodge in a cucumber field,
like a besieged city.
9 (W)If the Lord of hosts
had not left us (X)a few survivors,
we should have been like (Y)Sodom,
and become like (Z)Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the Lord,
you rulers of (AA)(AB)Sodom!
Give ear to the teaching[b] of our God,
you people of (AC)Gomorrah!
11 (AD)“What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?
says the Lord;
I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
and the fat of well-fed beasts;
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
or of lambs, or of goats.
12 “When you come to (AE)appear before me,
who has required of you
this trampling of my courts?
13 Bring no more vain offerings;
incense is an abomination to me.
(AF)New moon and Sabbath and the (AG)calling of convocations—
I cannot endure (AH)iniquity and (AI)solemn assembly.
14 Your (AJ)new moons and your appointed feasts
my soul hates;
they have become a burden to me;
I am weary of bearing them.
15 When you (AK)spread out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
(AL)even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
(AM)your hands are full of blood.
16 (AN)Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;
(AO)cease to do evil,
17 learn to do good;
(AP)seek justice,
correct oppression;
(AQ)bring justice to the fatherless,
plead the widow's cause.
18 “Come now, (AR)let us reason[c] together, says the Lord:
though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as (AS)white as snow;
though they are red like crimson,
they shall become like wool.
19 (AT)If you are willing and obedient,
you shall eat the good of the land;
20 but if you refuse and rebel,
you shall be eaten by the sword;
(AU)for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
The Unfaithful City
21 How the faithful city
(AV)has become a whore,[d]
(AW)she who was full of justice!
Righteousness lodged in her,
but now murderers.
22 (AX)Your silver has become dross,
your best wine mixed with water.
23 Your princes are rebels
and companions of thieves.
Everyone (AY)loves a bribe
and runs after gifts.
(AZ)They do not bring justice to the fatherless,
and the widow's cause does not come to them.
24 Therefore the (BA)Lord declares,
the Lord of hosts,
the (BB)Mighty One of Israel:
“Ah, I will get relief from my enemies
(BC)and avenge myself on my foes.
25 (BD)I will turn my hand against you
and will smelt away your (BE)dross as with lye
and remove all your alloy.
26 And I will restore your judges (BF)as at the first,
and your counselors as at the beginning.
Afterward (BG)you shall be called the city of righteousness,
the faithful city.”
27 (BH)Zion shall be redeemed by justice,
and those in her who repent, by righteousness.
28 (BI)But rebels and sinners shall be broken together,
and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
29 (BJ)For they[e] shall be ashamed of (BK)the oaks
that you desired;
and you shall blush for (BL)the gardens
that you have chosen.
30 For you shall be (BM)like an oak
whose leaf withers,
and like a garden without water.
31 And the strong shall become (BN)tinder,
and his work a spark,
and both of them shall burn together,
with (BO)none to quench them.
The Mountain of the Lord
2 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 (BP)It shall come to pass in the latter days
that (BQ)the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
and shall be lifted up above the hills;
and (BR)all the nations shall flow to it,
3 and (BS)many peoples shall come, and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
and that we may walk in his paths.”
For (BT)out of Zion shall go forth the law,[f]
and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 He shall judge between the nations,
and shall decide disputes for many peoples;
(BU)and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks;
(BV)nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war anymore.
5 O house of Jacob,
come, let us walk
in (BW)the light of the Lord.
The Day of the Lord
6 For you have rejected your people,
the house of Jacob,
because they are full of things (BX)from the east
and (BY)of fortune-tellers (BZ)like the Philistines,
and they (CA)strike hands with the children of foreigners.
7 Their land is (CB)filled with silver and gold,
and there is no end to their treasures;
their land is (CC)filled with horses,
and there is no end to their chariots.
8 Their land is (CD)filled with idols;
they bow down to (CE)the work of their hands,
to what their own fingers have made.
9 So man (CF)is humbled,
and each one (CG)is brought low—
do not forgive them!
10 (CH)Enter into the rock
and hide in the dust
(CI)from before the terror of the Lord,
and from the splendor of his majesty.
11 (CJ)The haughty looks of man shall be brought low,
and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled,
and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
12 (CK)For the Lord of hosts has a day
against all that is proud and lofty,
against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low;
13 against all the (CL)cedars of Lebanon,
lofty and lifted up;
and against all the (CM)oaks of Bashan;
14 against all (CN)the lofty mountains,
and against all the uplifted hills;
15 against every high tower,
and against every fortified wall;
16 against all (CO)the ships of Tarshish,
and against all the beautiful craft.
17 (CP)And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled,
and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low,
and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
18 (CQ)And the idols shall utterly pass away.
19 (CR)And people shall enter the caves of the rocks
and the holes of the ground,[g]
from before the terror of the Lord,
and from the splendor of his majesty,
(CS)when he rises to terrify the earth.
20 In that day (CT)mankind will cast away
their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
which they made for themselves to worship,
to the moles and to the (CU)bats,
21 (CV)to enter the caverns of the rocks
and the clefts of the cliffs,
from before the terror of the Lord,
and from the splendor of his majesty,
(CW)when he rises to terrify the earth.
22 (CX)Stop regarding man
(CY)in whose nostrils is breath,
for of what account is he?
Judgment on Judah and Jerusalem
3 For behold, the (CZ)Lord God of hosts
is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah
support and supply,[h]
all (DA)support of bread,
and all support of water;
2 (DB)the mighty man and the soldier,
the judge and the prophet,
the diviner and the elder,
3 the captain of fifty
and the man of rank,
the counselor and the skillful magician
and the expert in charms.
4 (DC)And I will make boys their princes,
and infants[i] shall rule over them.
5 (DD)And the people will oppress one another,
every one his fellow
and every one his neighbor;
the youth will be insolent to the elder,
and the despised to the honorable.
6 For (DE)a man will take hold of his brother
in the house of his father, saying:
“You have a cloak;
you shall be our leader,
and this heap of ruins
shall be under your rule”;
7 in that day he will speak out, saying:
“I will not be a (DF)healer;[j]
in my house there is neither bread nor cloak;
you shall not make me
leader of the people.”
8 For Jerusalem has stumbled,
and Judah has fallen,
because their (DG)speech and their deeds are against the Lord,
(DH)defying his glorious presence.[k]
9 For the look on their faces bears witness against them;
they proclaim their sin (DI)like Sodom;
they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
(DJ)For they have brought evil on themselves.
10 (DK)Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them,
(DL)for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
11 (DM)Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him,
for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.
12 My people—(DN)infants are their oppressors,
and women rule over them.
O my people, (DO)your guides mislead you
and they have swallowed up[l] the course of your paths.
13 The Lord (DP)has taken his place to contend;
he stands to judge peoples.
14 The Lord will enter into judgment
with the (DQ)elders and princes of his people:
“It is you who (DR)have devoured[m] the vineyard,
(DS)the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What do you mean by (DT)crushing my people,
by grinding the face of the poor?”
declares the Lord God of hosts.
16 The Lord said:
(DU)Because (DV)the daughters of Zion are haughty
and walk with outstretched necks,
glancing wantonly with their eyes,
mincing along as they go,
(DW)tinkling with their feet,
17 therefore the Lord (DX)will strike with a scab
the heads of (DY)the daughters of Zion,
and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away (DZ)the finery of the anklets, the (EA)headbands, and the (EB)crescents; 19 the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves; 20 the (EC)headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets; 21 the signet rings and (ED)nose rings; 22 the (EE)festal robes, the mantles, the cloaks, and the handbags; 23 the mirrors, the linen garments, the turbans, and the veils.
24 Instead of (EF)perfume there will be rottenness;
and instead of a (EG)belt, a rope;
and instead of (EH)well-set hair, (EI)baldness;
and instead of a rich robe, a (EJ)skirt of sackcloth;
and (EK)branding instead of beauty.
25 Your men shall fall by the sword
and your mighty men in battle.
26 And (EL)her gates shall lament and mourn;
empty, she shall (EM)sit on the ground.
4 (EN)And seven women (EO)shall take hold of (EP)one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; (EQ)take away our reproach.”
The Branch of the Lord Glorified
2 In that day (ER)the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and (ES)the fruit of the land shall be the pride and honor of the survivors of Israel. 3 (ET)And he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called (EU)holy, everyone who has (EV)been recorded for life in Jerusalem, 4 when (EW)the Lord shall have washed away the filth of (EX)the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by (EY)a spirit of burning.[n] 5 Then the Lord will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies (EZ)a cloud by day, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be (FA)a canopy. 6 (FB)There will be a (FC)booth for shade by day from the heat, and (FD)for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.
The Vineyard of the Lord Destroyed
5 Let me sing for my beloved
my love song concerning his vineyard:
My beloved had (FE)a vineyard
on a very fertile hill.
2 He dug it and cleared it of stones,
and planted it with (FF)choice vines;
he built a watchtower in the midst of it,
and hewed out a wine vat in it;
and (FG)he looked for it to yield grapes,
but it yielded wild grapes.
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem
and men of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.
4 (FH)What more was there to do for my vineyard,
that I have not done in it?
(FI)When I looked for it to yield grapes,
why did it yield wild grapes?
5 And now I will tell you
what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove (FJ)its hedge,
and it shall be devoured;[o]
(FK)I will break down its wall,
and it shall be trampled down.
6 I will make it a waste;
it shall not be pruned or hoed,
and (FL)briers and thorns shall grow up;
(FM)I will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it.
7 (FN)For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah
are his pleasant planting;
and he looked for justice,
but behold, bloodshed;[p]
for righteousness,
but behold, an outcry![q]
Woe to the Wicked
8 Woe to those who (FO)join house to house,
who add field to field,
until there is no more room,
and you are made to dwell alone
in the midst of the land.
9 The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing:
(FP)“Surely many houses shall be desolate,
large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.
10 (FQ)For ten acres[r] of vineyard shall yield but one bath,
and a (FR)homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.”[s]
11 Woe to those who (FS)rise early in the morning,
that they may run after strong drink,
who tarry late into the evening
as wine inflames them!
12 (FT)They have lyre and harp,
tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts,
(FU)but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord,
or see the work of his hands.
13 Therefore my people go into exile
(FV)for lack of knowledge;[t]
their (FW)honored men go hungry,[u]
and their multitude is parched with thirst.
14 Therefore Sheol has (FX)enlarged its appetite
and opened (FY)its mouth beyond measure,
and the nobility of Jerusalem[v] and her multitude will go down,
her revelers and he who (FZ)exults in her.
15 (GA)Man is humbled, and each one is brought low,
and the eyes of the haughty[w] are brought low.
16 (GB)But the Lord of hosts is exalted[x] in justice,
and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.
17 Then shall the lambs graze (GC)as in their pasture,
and (GD)nomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich.
18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with (GE)cords of falsehood,
who draw sin as with cart ropes,
19 who say: (GF)“Let him be quick,
let him speed his work
that we may see it;
let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near,
and let it come, that we may know it!”
20 Woe to (GG)those who call evil good
and good evil,
(GH)who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are (GI)wise in their own eyes,
and shrewd in their own sight!
22 Woe to those who are (GJ)heroes at drinking wine,
and valiant men in mixing strong drink,
23 who (GK)acquit the guilty for a bribe,
and deprive the innocent of his right!
24 Therefore, (GL)as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so (GM)their root will be (GN)as rottenness,
and their blossom go up like dust;
for they have (GO)rejected the law of the Lord of hosts,
and have (GP)despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore (GQ)the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,
and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them,
and (GR)the mountains quaked;
and their corpses were (GS)as refuse
in the midst of the streets.
(GT)For all this his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is stretched out still.
26 He will (GU)raise a signal for nations far away,
and (GV)whistle for them (GW)from the ends of the earth;
and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
27 (GX)None is weary, none stumbles,
none slumbers or sleeps,
not a waistband is loose,
not a sandal strap broken;
28 (GY)their arrows are sharp,
all their bows bent,
their horses' hoofs seem like flint,
and their wheels (GZ)like the whirlwind.
29 Their roaring is like a lion,
like young lions they roar;
they growl and (HA)seize their prey;
they carry it off, and none can rescue.
30 They will growl over it on that day,
like the growling of the sea.
And if one looks to the land,
behold, (HB)darkness and distress;
and the light is darkened by its clouds.
Isaiah's Vision of the Lord
6 In the year that (HC)King Uzziah died I (HD)saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train[y] of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had (HE)six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one called to another and said:
4 And (HH)the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and (HI)the house was filled with smoke. 5 And I said: “Woe is me! (HJ)For I am lost; (HK)for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the (HL)King, the Lord of hosts!”
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 And he (HM)touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”
Isaiah's Commission from the Lord
8 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for (HN)us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.” 9 And he said, “Go, and say to this people:
(HO)“‘Keep on hearing,[aa] but do not understand;
keep on seeing,[ab] but do not perceive.’
10 (HP)Make the heart of this people (HQ)dull,[ac]
and their ears heavy,
and blind their eyes;
(HR)lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears,
and understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed.”
11 Then I said, (HS)“How long, O Lord?”
And he said:
“Until (HT)cities lie waste
without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is a desolate waste,
12 and the Lord removes people far away,
and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
13 (HU)And though a tenth remain in it,
it will be burned[ad] again,
like a terebinth or an oak,
whose stump (HV)remains
when it is felled.”
(HW)The holy seed[ae] is its stump.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 1:2 Or Sons; also verse 4
- Isaiah 1:10 Or law
- Isaiah 1:18 Or dispute
- Isaiah 1:21 Or become unchaste
- Isaiah 1:29 Some Hebrew manuscripts you
- Isaiah 2:3 Or teaching
- Isaiah 2:19 Hebrew dust
- Isaiah 3:1 Hebrew staff
- Isaiah 3:4 Or caprice
- Isaiah 3:7 Hebrew binder of wounds
- Isaiah 3:8 Hebrew the eyes of his glory
- Isaiah 3:12 Or they have confused
- Isaiah 3:14 Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5
- Isaiah 4:4 Or purging
- Isaiah 5:5 Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5
- Isaiah 5:7 The Hebrew words for justice and bloodshed sound alike
- Isaiah 5:7 The Hebrew words for righteous and outcry sound alike
- Isaiah 5:10 Hebrew ten yoke, the area ten yoke of oxen can plow in a day
- Isaiah 5:10 A bath was about 6 gallons or 22 liters; a homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters; an ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
- Isaiah 5:13 Or without their knowledge
- Isaiah 5:13 Or die of hunger
- Isaiah 5:14 Hebrew her nobility
- Isaiah 5:15 Hebrew high
- Isaiah 5:16 Hebrew high
- Isaiah 6:1 Or hem
- Isaiah 6:3 Or may his glory fill the whole earth
- Isaiah 6:9 Or Hear indeed
- Isaiah 6:9 Or see indeed
- Isaiah 6:10 Hebrew fat
- Isaiah 6:13 Or purged
- Isaiah 6:13 Or offspring
Isaiah 1-6
New International Version
Isaiah 1-6
New International Version
1 The vision(A) concerning Judah and Jerusalem(B) that Isaiah son of Amoz saw(C) during the reigns of Uzziah,(D) Jotham,(E) Ahaz(F) and Hezekiah,(G) kings of Judah.
A Rebellious Nation
2 Hear me, you heavens! Listen, earth!(H)
For the Lord has spoken:(I)
“I reared children(J) and brought them up,
but they have rebelled(K) against me.
3 The ox knows(L) its master,
the donkey its owner’s manger,(M)
but Israel does not know,(N)
my people do not understand.(O)”
4 Woe to the sinful nation,
a people whose guilt is great,(P)
a brood of evildoers,(Q)
children given to corruption!(R)
They have forsaken(S) the Lord;
they have spurned the Holy One(T) of Israel
and turned their backs(U) on him.
5 Why should you be beaten(V) anymore?
Why do you persist(W) in rebellion?(X)
Your whole head is injured,
your whole heart(Y) afflicted.(Z)
6 From the sole of your foot to the top of your head(AA)
there is no soundness(AB)—
only wounds and welts(AC)
and open sores,
not cleansed or bandaged(AD)
or soothed with olive oil.(AE)
7 Your country is desolate,(AF)
your cities burned with fire;(AG)
your fields are being stripped by foreigners(AH)
right before you,
laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.(AI)
8 Daughter Zion(AJ) is left(AK)
like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a hut(AL) in a cucumber field,
like a city under siege.
9 Unless the Lord Almighty
had left us some survivors,(AM)
we would have become like Sodom,
we would have been like Gomorrah.(AN)
10 Hear the word of the Lord,(AO)
you rulers of Sodom;(AP)
listen to the instruction(AQ) of our God,
you people of Gomorrah!(AR)
11 “The multitude of your sacrifices—
what are they to me?” says the Lord.
“I have more than enough of burnt offerings,
of rams and the fat of fattened animals;(AS)
I have no pleasure(AT)
in the blood of bulls(AU) and lambs and goats.(AV)
12 When you come to appear before me,
who has asked this of you,(AW)
this trampling of my courts?
13 Stop bringing meaningless offerings!(AX)
Your incense(AY) is detestable(AZ) to me.
New Moons,(BA) Sabbaths and convocations(BB)—
I cannot bear your worthless assemblies.
14 Your New Moon(BC) feasts and your appointed festivals(BD)
I hate with all my being.(BE)
They have become a burden to me;(BF)
I am weary(BG) of bearing them.
15 When you spread out your hands(BH) in prayer,
I hide(BI) my eyes from you;
even when you offer many prayers,
I am not listening.(BJ)
16 Wash(BM) and make yourselves clean.
Take your evil deeds out of my sight;(BN)
stop doing wrong.(BO)
17 Learn to do right;(BP) seek justice.(BQ)
Defend the oppressed.[a](BR)
Take up the cause of the fatherless;(BS)
plead the case of the widow.(BT)
18 “Come now, let us settle the matter,”(BU)
says the Lord.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;(BV)
though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.(BW)
19 If you are willing and obedient,(BX)
you will eat the good things of the land;(BY)
20 but if you resist and rebel,(BZ)
you will be devoured by the sword.”(CA)
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.(CB)
21 See how the faithful city
has become a prostitute!(CC)
She once was full of justice;
righteousness(CD) used to dwell in her—
but now murderers!(CE)
22 Your silver has become dross,(CF)
your choice wine is diluted with water.
23 Your rulers are rebels,(CG)
partners with thieves;(CH)
they all love bribes(CI)
and chase after gifts.
They do not defend the cause of the fatherless;
the widow’s case does not come before them.(CJ)
24 Therefore the Lord, the Lord Almighty,
the Mighty One(CK) of Israel, declares:
“Ah! I will vent my wrath on my foes
and avenge(CL) myself on my enemies.(CM)
25 I will turn my hand against you;[b](CN)
I will thoroughly purge(CO) away your dross(CP)
and remove all your impurities.(CQ)
26 I will restore your leaders as in days of old,(CR)
your rulers as at the beginning.
Afterward you will be called(CS)
the City of Righteousness,(CT)
the Faithful City.(CU)”
27 Zion will be delivered with justice,
her penitent(CV) ones with righteousness.(CW)
28 But rebels and sinners(CX) will both be broken,
and those who forsake(CY) the Lord will perish.(CZ)
29 “You will be ashamed(DA) because of the sacred oaks(DB)
in which you have delighted;
you will be disgraced because of the gardens(DC)
that you have chosen.
30 You will be like an oak with fading leaves,(DD)
like a garden without water.
31 The mighty man will become tinder
and his work a spark;
both will burn together,
with no one to quench the fire.(DE)”
The Mountain of the Lord(DF)
2 This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:(DG)
2 In the last days(DH)
the mountain(DI) of the Lord’s temple will be established
as the highest of the mountains;(DJ)
it will be exalted(DK) above the hills,
and all nations will stream to it.(DL)
3 Many peoples(DM) will come and say,
“Come, let us go(DN) up to the mountain(DO) of the Lord,
to the temple of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us his ways,
so that we may walk in his paths.”
The law(DP) will go out from Zion,
the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.(DQ)
4 He will judge(DR) between the nations
and will settle disputes(DS) for many peoples.
They will beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.(DT)
Nation will not take up sword against nation,(DU)
nor will they train for war anymore.
The Day of the Lord
6 You, Lord, have abandoned(DX) your people,
the descendants of Jacob.(DY)
They are full of superstitions from the East;
they practice divination(DZ) like the Philistines(EA)
and embrace(EB) pagan customs.(EC)
7 Their land is full of silver and gold;(ED)
there is no end to their treasures.(EE)
Their land is full of horses;(EF)
there is no end to their chariots.(EG)
8 Their land is full of idols;(EH)
they bow down(EI) to the work of their hands,(EJ)
to what their fingers(EK) have made.
9 So people will be brought low(EL)
and everyone humbled(EM)—
do not forgive them.[c](EN)
10 Go into the rocks, hide(EO) in the ground
from the fearful presence of the Lord
and the splendor of his majesty!(EP)
11 The eyes of the arrogant(EQ) will be humbled(ER)
and human pride(ES) brought low;(ET)
the Lord alone will be exalted(EU) in that day.(EV)
12 The Lord Almighty has a day(EW) in store
for all the proud(EX) and lofty,(EY)
for all that is exalted(EZ)
(and they will be humbled),(FA)
13 for all the cedars of Lebanon,(FB) tall and lofty,(FC)
and all the oaks of Bashan,(FD)
14 for all the towering mountains
and all the high hills,(FE)
15 for every lofty tower(FF)
and every fortified wall,(FG)
16 for every trading ship[d](FH)
and every stately vessel.
17 The arrogance of man will be brought low(FI)
and human pride humbled;(FJ)
the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,(FK)
18 and the idols(FL) will totally disappear.(FM)
19 People will flee to caves(FN) in the rocks
and to holes in the ground(FO)
from the fearful presence(FP) of the Lord
and the splendor of his majesty,(FQ)
when he rises to shake the earth.(FR)
20 In that day(FS) people will throw away
to the moles and bats(FT)
their idols of silver and idols of gold,(FU)
which they made to worship.(FV)
21 They will flee to caverns in the rocks(FW)
and to the overhanging crags
from the fearful presence of the Lord
and the splendor of his majesty,(FX)
when he rises(FY) to shake the earth.(FZ)
22 Stop trusting in mere humans,(GA)
who have but a breath(GB) in their nostrils.
Why hold them in esteem?(GC)
Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah
3 See now, the Lord,
the Lord Almighty,
is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah
both supply and support:(GD)
all supplies of food(GE) and all supplies of water,(GF)
2 the hero and the warrior,(GG)
the judge and the prophet,
the diviner(GH) and the elder,(GI)
3 the captain of fifty(GJ) and the man of rank,(GK)
the counselor, skilled craftsman(GL) and clever enchanter.(GM)
4 “I will make mere youths their officials;
children will rule over them.”(GN)
5 People will oppress each other—
man against man, neighbor against neighbor.(GO)
The young will rise up against the old,
the nobody against the honored.
6 A man will seize one of his brothers
in his father’s house, and say,
“You have a cloak, you be our leader;
take charge of this heap of ruins!”
7 But in that day(GP) he will cry out,
“I have no remedy.(GQ)
I have no food(GR) or clothing in my house;
do not make me the leader of the people.”(GS)
8 Jerusalem staggers,
Judah is falling;(GT)
their words(GU) and deeds(GV) are against the Lord,
defying(GW) his glorious presence.
9 The look on their faces testifies(GX) against them;
they parade their sin like Sodom;(GY)
they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
They have brought disaster(GZ) upon themselves.
10 Tell the righteous it will be well(HA) with them,
for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.(HB)
11 Woe to the wicked!(HC)
Disaster(HD) is upon them!
They will be paid back(HE)
for what their hands have done.(HF)
12 Youths(HG) oppress my people,
women rule over them.
My people, your guides lead you astray;(HH)
they turn you from the path.
13 The Lord takes his place in court;(HI)
he rises to judge(HJ) the people.
14 The Lord enters into judgment(HK)
against the elders and leaders of his people:
“It is you who have ruined my vineyard;
the plunder(HL) from the poor(HM) is in your houses.
15 What do you mean by crushing my people(HN)
and grinding(HO) the faces of the poor?”(HP)
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.(HQ)
16 The Lord says,
“The women of Zion(HR) are haughty,
walking along with outstretched necks,(HS)
flirting with their eyes,
strutting along with swaying hips,
with ornaments jingling on their ankles.
17 Therefore the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the women of Zion;
the Lord will make their scalps bald.(HT)”
18 In that day(HU) the Lord will snatch away their finery: the bangles and headbands and crescent necklaces,(HV) 19 the earrings and bracelets(HW) and veils,(HX) 20 the headdresses(HY) and anklets and sashes, the perfume bottles and charms, 21 the signet rings and nose rings,(HZ) 22 the fine robes and the capes and cloaks,(IA) the purses 23 and mirrors, and the linen garments(IB) and tiaras(IC) and shawls.
24 Instead of fragrance(ID) there will be a stench;(IE)
instead of a sash,(IF) a rope;
instead of well-dressed hair, baldness;(IG)
instead of fine clothing, sackcloth;(IH)
instead of beauty,(II) branding.(IJ)
25 Your men will fall by the sword,(IK)
your warriors in battle.(IL)
26 The gates(IM) of Zion will lament and mourn;(IN)
destitute,(IO) she will sit on the ground.(IP)
4 1 In that day(IQ) seven women
will take hold of one man(IR)
and say, “We will eat our own food(IS)
and provide our own clothes;
only let us be called by your name.
Take away our disgrace!”(IT)
The Branch of the Lord
2 In that day(IU) the Branch of the Lord(IV) will be beautiful(IW) and glorious, and the fruit(IX) of the land will be the pride and glory(IY) of the survivors(IZ) in Israel. 3 Those who are left in Zion,(JA) who remain(JB) in Jerusalem, will be called holy,(JC) all who are recorded(JD) among the living in Jerusalem. 4 The Lord will wash away the filth(JE) of the women of Zion;(JF) he will cleanse(JG) the bloodstains(JH) from Jerusalem by a spirit[e] of judgment(JI) and a spirit[f] of fire.(JJ) 5 Then the Lord will create(JK) over all of Mount Zion(JL) and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night;(JM) over everything the glory[g](JN) will be a canopy.(JO) 6 It will be a shelter(JP) and shade from the heat of the day, and a refuge(JQ) and hiding place from the storm(JR) and rain.
The Song of the Vineyard
5 I will sing for the one I love
a song about his vineyard:(JS)
My loved one had a vineyard
on a fertile hillside.
2 He dug it up and cleared it of stones
and planted it with the choicest vines.(JT)
He built a watchtower(JU) in it
and cut out a winepress(JV) as well.
Then he looked for a crop of good grapes,
but it yielded only bad fruit.(JW)
3 “Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.(JX)
4 What more could have been done for my vineyard
than I have done for it?(JY)
When I looked for good grapes,
why did it yield only bad?(JZ)
5 Now I will tell you
what I am going to do to my vineyard:
I will take away its hedge,
and it will be destroyed;(KA)
I will break down its wall,(KB)
and it will be trampled.(KC)
6 I will make it a wasteland,(KD)
neither pruned nor cultivated,
and briers and thorns(KE) will grow there.
I will command the clouds
not to rain(KF) on it.”
7 The vineyard(KG) of the Lord Almighty
is the nation of Israel,
and the people of Judah
are the vines he delighted in.
And he looked for justice,(KH) but saw bloodshed;
for righteousness,(KI) but heard cries of distress.(KJ)
Woes and Judgments
8 Woe(KK) to you who add house to house
and join field to field(KL)
till no space is left
and you live alone in the land.
9 The Lord Almighty(KM) has declared in my hearing:(KN)
“Surely the great houses will become desolate,(KO)
the fine mansions left without occupants.
10 A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath[h] of wine;
a homer[i] of seed will yield only an ephah[j] of grain.”(KP)
11 Woe(KQ) to those who rise early in the morning
to run after their drinks,
who stay up late at night
till they are inflamed with wine.(KR)
12 They have harps and lyres at their banquets,
pipes(KS) and timbrels(KT) and wine,
but they have no regard(KU) for the deeds of the Lord,
no respect for the work of his hands.(KV)
13 Therefore my people will go into exile(KW)
for lack of understanding;(KX)
those of high rank(KY) will die of hunger
and the common people will be parched with thirst.(KZ)
14 Therefore Death(LA) expands its jaws,
opening wide its mouth;(LB)
into it will descend their nobles and masses
with all their brawlers and revelers.(LC)
15 So people will be brought low(LD)
and everyone humbled,(LE)
the eyes of the arrogant(LF) humbled.
16 But the Lord Almighty will be exalted(LG) by his justice,(LH)
and the holy God will be proved holy(LI) by his righteous acts.
17 Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture;(LJ)
lambs will feed[k] among the ruins of the rich.
18 Woe(LK) to those who draw sin along with cords(LL) of deceit,
and wickedness(LM) as with cart ropes,
19 to those who say, “Let God hurry;
let him hasten(LN) his work
so we may see it.
The plan of the Holy One(LO) of Israel—
let it approach, let it come into view,
so we may know it.”(LP)
20 Woe(LQ) to those who call evil good(LR)
and good evil,(LS)
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,(LT)
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.(LU)
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes(LV)
and clever in their own sight.
22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine(LW)
and champions at mixing drinks,(LX)
23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe,(LY)
but deny justice(LZ) to the innocent.(MA)
24 Therefore, as tongues of fire(MB) lick up straw(MC)
and as dry grass sinks down in the flames,
so their roots will decay(MD)
and their flowers blow away like dust;(ME)
for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty
and spurned the word(MF) of the Holy One(MG) of Israel.
25 Therefore the Lord’s anger(MH) burns against his people;
his hand is raised and he strikes them down.
The mountains shake,(MI)
and the dead bodies(MJ) are like refuse(MK) in the streets.(ML)
26 He lifts up a banner(MO) for the distant nations,
he whistles(MP) for those at the ends of the earth.(MQ)
Here they come,
swiftly and speedily!
27 Not one of them grows tired(MR) or stumbles,
not one slumbers or sleeps;
not a belt(MS) is loosened at the waist,(MT)
not a sandal strap is broken.(MU)
28 Their arrows are sharp,(MV)
all their bows(MW) are strung;
their horses’ hooves(MX) seem like flint,
their chariot wheels like a whirlwind.(MY)
29 Their roar is like that of the lion,(MZ)
they roar like young lions;
they growl as they seize(NA) their prey
and carry it off with no one to rescue.(NB)
30 In that day(NC) they will roar over it
like the roaring of the sea.(ND)
And if one looks at the land,
there is only darkness(NE) and distress;(NF)
even the sun will be darkened(NG) by clouds.
Isaiah’s Commission
6 In the year that King Uzziah(NH) died,(NI) I saw the Lord,(NJ) high and exalted,(NK) seated on a throne;(NL) and the train of his robe(NM) filled the temple. 2 Above him were seraphim,(NN) each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet,(NO) and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one another:
4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.(NT)
5 “Woe(NU) to me!” I cried. “I am ruined!(NV) For I am a man of unclean lips,(NW) and I live among a people of unclean lips,(NX) and my eyes have seen(NY) the King,(NZ) the Lord Almighty.”(OA)
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal(OB) in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips;(OC) your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.(OD)”
8 Then I heard the voice(OE) of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send?(OF) And who will go for us?(OG)”
And I said, “Here am I.(OH) Send me!”
9 He said, “Go(OI) and tell this people:
“‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding;
be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’(OJ)
10 Make the heart of this people calloused;(OK)
make their ears dull
and close their eyes.[l](OL)
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,(OM)
understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed.”(ON)
11 Then I said, “For how long, Lord?”(OO)
And he answered:
“Until the cities lie ruined(OP)
and without inhabitant,
until the houses are left deserted(OQ)
and the fields ruined and ravaged,(OR)
12 until the Lord has sent everyone far away(OS)
and the land is utterly forsaken.(OT)
13 And though a tenth remains(OU) in the land,
it will again be laid waste.(OV)
But as the terebinth and oak
leave stumps(OW) when they are cut down,
so the holy(OX) seed will be the stump in the land.”(OY)
Footnotes
- Isaiah 1:17 Or justice. / Correct the oppressor
- Isaiah 1:25 That is, against Jerusalem
- Isaiah 2:9 Or not raise them up
- Isaiah 2:16 Hebrew every ship of Tarshish
- Isaiah 4:4 Or the Spirit
- Isaiah 4:4 Or the Spirit
- Isaiah 4:5 Or over all the glory there
- Isaiah 5:10 That is, about 6 gallons or about 22 liters
- Isaiah 5:10 That is, probably about 360 pounds or about 160 kilograms
- Isaiah 5:10 That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms
- Isaiah 5:17 Septuagint; Hebrew / strangers will eat
- Isaiah 6:10 Hebrew; Septuagint ‘You will be ever hearing, but never understanding; / you will be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ / 10 This people’s heart has become calloused; / they hardly hear with their ears, / and they have closed their eyes
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