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1 A 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.
2 Hear, O heavens, and listen, O Earth! For the LORD has said, “I have nourished and brought up children, but they have rebelled against Me.
3 “The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib. Israel has not known. My people have not understood.”
4 Ah, sinful nation! A people laden with iniquity! A seed of the wicked! Corrupt children! They have forsaken the LORD. They have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger. They have gone backward.
5 Why should you be stricken anymore? For you fall away more and more. The whole head is sick and the whole heart is heavy.
6 From the sole of the foot to the head, there is nothing whole therein. Wounds and swelling and sores full of corruption, they have not been wrapped or bound up or softened with oil.
7 Your land is desolate, your cities burnt with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence and devastate it, as is the overthrow of strangers.
8 And the Daughter of Zion shall remain like a cottage in a vineyard, like a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, like a besieged city.
9 Except the LORD of Hosts had reserved to us even a small remnant, we would have been as Sodom, would have been like Gomorrah.
10 Hear the Word of the LORD, O princes of Sodom! Listen to the Law of our God, O people of Gomorrah!
11 “What have I to do with the multitude of your sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full of the Burnt Offerings of rams, and of the fat of fed beasts. And I do not desire the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of goats.
12 “When you come to appear before Me, who required this of your hands, to trample upon My courts?
13 “Bring no more oblations in vain. Incense is an abomination to Me. I cannot abide iniquitous new moons, or Sabbath, solemn days or solemn assemblies.
14 “My soul hates your new moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to Me. I am weary of bearing them.
15 “And when you shall stretch out your hands, I will hide My Eyes from you. And though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
16 “Wash yourself and make yourself clean. Take away the evil of your works from before My Eyes. Cease to do evil.
17 “Learn to do well. Seek judgment. Relieve the oppressed. Govern the fatherless. Defend the widow.
18 “Come now, and let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins were as crimson, they shall be made white as snow. Though they were red like scarlet, they shall be as wool.
19 “If you consent and obey, you shall eat the goods of the land.
20 “But if you refuse and are rebellious, you shall be devoured with the sword.” For the Mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
21 How has the faithful city become a harlot? It was full of judgment. Justice lodged therein—but now, murderers.
22 Your silver has become dross. Your wine is mixed with water.
23 Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves gifts and follows after rewards. They do not govern the fatherless. Nor does the widow’s cause come before them.
24 “Therefore,” says the LORD God of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, “Ah, I will relieve Myself of My adversaries and avenge Myself of My enemies.
25 “Then I will turn My Hand upon you and burn out your dross until it is pure and take away all your tin.
26 “And I will restore your Judges, as at the first, and your counselors, as at the beginning. Afterward, you shall be called a City of Righteousness, a faithful city.”
27 Zion shall be redeemed in judgment, and those who return in her, in justice.
28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together. And those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks, which you have desired. And you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.
30 For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.
31 And the strong shall be as tinder, and their work as a spark. And they shall both burn together. And no one shall quench them.
2 The Word that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw upon Judah and Jerusalem.
2 It shall be in the last days that the Mountain of the House of the LORD shall be prepared in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills. And all nations shall flow to it.
3 And many people shall go, and say, “Come, and let us go up to the Mountain of the LORD, to the House of the God of Jacob. And He will teach us His ways. And we will walk in His paths.” For the Law shall go forth from Zion, and the Word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And He shall judge among the nations and rebuke many people. And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into scythes. Nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, nor shall they learn to fight anymore.
5 O, House of Jacob, come and let us walk in the Law of the LORD.
6 Surely you have forsaken your people, the House of Jacob, because they are full of the East, and sorcerers as the Philistines, and abound with strange children.
7 Their land was also full of silver and gold. And there was no end of their treasures. And their land was full of horses, and their chariots infinite.
8 Their land was also full of idols. They worshipped the work of their own hands which their own fingers had made.
9 And a man bowed himself. And a man humbled himself. Therefore, do not spare them.
10 Enter into the rock and hide yourself in the dust from before the fear of the LORD, and from the Glory of His Majesty.
11 The high look of man shall be humbled. And the loftiness of men shall be abased. And the LORD only shall be exalted on that day.
12 For the day of the LORD of Hosts is upon all the proud and haughty, and upon all that is exalted. And it shall be made low.
13 Even upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and exalted, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
14 and upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
15 and upon every high tower, and upon every strong wall,
16 and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
17 And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low. And the loftiness of men shall be abased. And the LORD alone shall be exalted on that day.
18 And He will utterly destroy the idols.
19 Then they shall go into the holes of the rocks and into the caves of the Earth from before the fear of the LORD, and from the Glory of His Majesty, when He shall arise to destroy the Earth.
20 At that day, man shall cast away his silver idols and his golden idols (which they had made for themselves to worship them) to the moles and to the bats,
21 to go into the holes of the rocks and into the tops of the ragged rocks from before the fear of the LORD, and from the Glory of His Majesty, when He shall rise to destroy the Earth.
22 Cease from man, whose breath is in his nostrils. For of what account is he?
3 For lo, the LORD God of Hosts will take away from Jerusalem, and from Judah, the support and the strength, all the supply of bread, and all the supply of water,
2 the strong man and the man of war, the judge and the Prophet, the diviners and the aged,
3 the Captain of Fifty and the honorable and the counselor and the skilled craftsman and expert whisperer.
4 And I will appoint children to be their princes. And tyrants shall rule over them.
5 The people shall be oppressed by one another, and everyone by his neighbor. The children shall be insolent toward the aged, and the vile toward the honorable.
6 When everyone shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, and say, “You have clothing. You shall be our prince. And let this fall be under your hand.”
7 On that day he shall swear, saying, “I cannot be a helper. For there is neither bread in my house nor clothing. Make me no prince of the people.”
8 Doubtless, Jerusalem has fallen and Judah has fallen down, because their tongue and works are against the LORD, to provoke the Eyes of His Glory.
9 The look on their face testifies against them. Yea, they declare their sins. As Sodom, they do not hide them. Woe to their souls! For they have rewarded evil to themselves.
10 Say, “Surely it shall be well with the just. For they shall eat the fruit of their works.
11 “Woe be to the wicked! It shall be evil with him. For the reward of his hands shall be given him.
12 “Children are extortioners of my people. And women have rule over them. O, my people! Those who lead you cause you to err and destroy the way of your paths.”
13 The LORD stands up to plead. Yea, He stands to judge the people.
14 The LORD shall enter into judgment with the ancients of His people and their princes. “For you have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 “What do you mean by beating My people to pieces and grinding the faces of the poor?” says the LORD, the LORD of Hosts.
16 The LORD also says, “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks, and with wandering eyes, walking and skipping as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet,
17 “therefore the LORD shall make the heads of the daughters of Zion bald. And the LORD shall uncover their secret parts.
18 “On that day, the LORD shall take away the beauty of the anklets and the headbands and the crescent ornaments
19 “the pendants and the bracelets and the veils
20 “the headdresses and the leg ornaments and the sashes and the tablets, and the earrings
21 “the rings and the nose jewels
22 “the costly apparel and the overtunics and the cloaks and the purses
23 “and the glasses and the fine linen and the turbans and the large veils.
24 “And instead of sweet savor, there shall be stink. And instead of a girdle, a rope. And instead of dressing the hair, baldness. And instead of a robe, a belt of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
25 “Your men shall fall by the sword, and your strength in the battle.
26 “Then shall her gates mourn and lament. And she, being desolate, shall sit upon the ground.”
4 And on that day, seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, “We will eat our own bread and we will wear our own clothes. Only, let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”
2 On that day, the Branch of the LORD shall be beautiful and glorious. And the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and pleasant for those of Israel who have escaped.
3 Then he who shall be left in Zion, and he who shall remain in Jerusalem, shall be called holy. Everyone in Jerusalem shall be written among the living
4 when the LORD shall wash the filthiness of the daughters of Zion and purge the blood of Jerusalem out of its midst by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning.
5 And the LORD shall create upon every place of Mount Zion, and upon its assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night. For upon all the Glory shall be a defense.
6 And a covering shall be for shade from the heat during the day, and a place of refuge and a shelter from the storm and from the rain.
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