Isaiah 1:1-9 ▼

1 The vision which Isaiah, son of Amoz, 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 speaks: Sons have I raised and reared, but they have rebelled against me!

3 An ox knows its owner, and an ass, its master’s manger; But Israel does not know, my people has not understood.

4 Ah! Sinful nation, people laden with wickedness, evil offspring, corrupt children! They have forsaken the LORD, spurned the Holy One of Israel, apostatized,

5 Why would you yet be struck, that you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint.

6 From the sole of the foot to the head there is no sound spot in it; Just bruise and welt and oozing wound, not drained, or bandaged, or eased with salve.

7 Your country is waste, your cities burnt with fire; Your land—before your eyes strangers devour it, a waste, like the devastation of Sodom.

8 And daughter Zion is left like a hut in a vineyard, Like a shed in a melon patch, like a city blockaded.

9 If the LORD of hosts had not left us a small remnant, We would have become as Sodom, would have resembled Gomorrah.