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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Hear me, you heavens! Listen, earth! For the LORD has spoken: "I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner's manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand." |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Woe to the sinful nation, a people whose guilt is great, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the LORD; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6From the sole of your foot to the top of your head there is no soundness-- only wounds and welts and open sores, not cleansed or bandaged or soothed with olive oil. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Daughter Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a city under siege. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Unless the LORD Almighty had left us some survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah! |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12When you come to appear before me, who has asked this of you, this trampling of my courts? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations-- I cannot bear your worthless assemblies. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals I hate with all my being. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood! |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"Come now, let us settle the matter," says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land; |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword." For the mouth of the LORD has spoken. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21See how the faithful city has become a prostitute! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her-- but now murderers! |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Your silver has become dross, your choice wine is diluted with water. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow's case does not come before them. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Therefore the Lord, the LORD Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: "Ah! I will vent my wrath on my foes and avenge myself on my enemies. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25I will turn my hand against you; I will thoroughly purge away your dross and remove all your impurities. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26I will restore your leaders as in days of old, your rulers as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City." |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Zion will be delivered with justice, her penitent ones with righteousness. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28But rebels and sinners will both be broken, and those who forsake the LORD will perish. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29"You will be ashamed because of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30You will be like an oak with fading leaves, like a garden without water. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31The mighty man will become tinder and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the fire." |
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