Isaiah 1:1-15 ▼

1 The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz that he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for YHWH has spoken: “Sons I have brought up and raised up, and they have rebelled against Me.

3 An ox has known his owner and a donkey the trough of its master; Israel has not known; my people have not understood.”

4 Alas, O sinning nation, a people heavy with iniquity, a seed doing evil, sons bringing corruption! They have forsaken YHWH, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they have become estranged backward.

5 For what should you⁺ be struck still? Should you⁺ continue in rebellion? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart is faint.

6 From the sole of the foot and to the head, no soundness is in it—wounds and fresh stripes and blows; they have not been pressed and not bound up and not soothed with oil.

7 Your⁺ land is a desolation, your⁺ cities burnt with fire, your⁺ ground in front of you⁺, strangers devour it, and it is a desolation, as overthrown by strangers.

8 And the daughter of Zion has been left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a lodge in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.

9 Unless YHWH of Hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.

10 Hear the word of YHWH, chiefs of Sodom; give ear to the Instruction of our God, people of Gomorrah!

11 “What to Me is the multitude of your⁺ sacrifices?” Says YHWH. “I have had my fill of burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of well-fed cattle, and in the blood of bulls and lambs and he-goats I take no delight.

12 When you⁺ come to appear before My face, who has sought this from your⁺ hand, to trample My courts?

13 You⁺ shall not add to bring an offering of worthlessness; incense, it is an abomination to Me, New Moons and Sabbaths and the calling of assemblies—I cannot endure iniquity, in a solemn assembly!

14 Your⁺ New Moons and your⁺ appointed feasts, My soul hates; they are to Me as a burden; I am weary of bearing them.

15 And in your⁺ spreading forth your⁺ hands, I will hide My eyes from you⁺; even though you⁺ multiply prayers, I will not be listening. Your⁺ hands are full of blood!