| The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000. |
The Book of the Prophet |
| Isaiah |
| 1 |
A Sinful Nation | |
| 1 |
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzzi'ah, 2 Kgs. 15.1-7 · 2 Chr. 26.1-23 Jotham, 2 Kgs. 15.32-38 · 2 Chr. 27.1-9 Ahaz, 2 Kgs. 16.1-20 · 2 Chr. 28.1-27 and Hezeki'ah, 2 Kgs. 18.1--20.21 · 2 Chr. 29.1--32.33 kings of Judah. |
| 2 |
¶ Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken; I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. |
| 3 |
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. |
| 4 |
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. |
| 5 |
¶ Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. |
| 6 |
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. |
| 7 |
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. |
| 8 |
And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. |
| 9 |
Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. Gen. 19.24 · Rom. 9.29 |
A Call to True Repentance | |
| 10 |
¶ Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. |
| 11 |
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. |
| 12 |
When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? |
| 13 |
Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. |
| 14 |
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. Amos 5.21, 22 |
| 15 |
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. |
| 16 |
Wash ye, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; |
| 17 |
learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. |
| 18 |
¶ Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. |
| 19 |
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: |
| 20 |
but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. |
The Judgment and Redemption of Zion | |
| 21 |
¶ How is the faithful city become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. |
| 22 |
Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: |
| 23 |
thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. |
| 24 |
¶ Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies. |
| 25 |
And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: |
| 26 |
and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city. |
| 27 |
¶ Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. |
| 28 |
And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed. |
| 29 |
For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. |
| 30 |
For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. |
| 31 |
And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them. |
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