Isaiah 1:1-8 ▼

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.