Isaiah 1
1:1The vision which Isaiah son of Amoz beheld, which he beheld against Judea, and against Jerusalem, during the kingdom of Uzziah, and Jotham, and Ahaz, and Hezekiah, the ones who reigned over Judea.
1:2Hear, O heaven, and give ear O earth! For the lord spoke, saying, I have engendered sons, and raised them, but they disregarded me.
1:3The ox knows the one acquiring it, and the donkey knows the stable of its master; but Israel does not know me, and my people perceived not.
1:4Woe, O sinful nation, people full of sins, an evil seed, lawless sons. You abandoned the lord, and provoked to anger the holy one of Israel; they were separated into the rear.
1:5Why still should you be struck, proceeding in lawlessness? The whole head is in misery, and the whole heart is in distress.
1:6From feet unto head there is no wholeness in it. Neither wound, nor stripe, nor inflamed wound are healed; there is no dressing to place upon it, nor oil, nor bandages.
1:7Your land is desolate; your cities scorched; your place before you -- strangers devoure it, and it is made desolate, being eradicated by alien peoples.
1:8The daughter of Zion shall be abandoned as a tent in a vineyard, and as a storehouse in a cucumber garden, as a city being assaulted.
1:9And unless the lord of Hosts left us a seed, we would have become as Sodom, and likened as Gomorrah.
1:10Hear the word of the lord, O rulers of Sodom! Take heed to the law of our God, O people of Gomorrah!
1:11What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me, says the lord? I am full of whole burnt-offerings of rams, and fat of lambs; and I do not want blood of bulls and he-goats.
1:12And neither should you come to appear to me; for who required these from out of your hands? You shall not proceed to tread my courtyard.
1:13If you should bring fine flour, it is in vain; incense is an abomination to me; I cannot endure your new moons and the Sabbaths and the great day.
1:14Your fasting, and idleness, and your new moons, and your holidays my soul detests. You became to me as a glut; no longer shall I spare your sins.
1:15Whenever you should stretch out your hands, I shall turn my eyes from you. And if you should multiply your supplication, I will not listen to you, for your hands are full of blood.
1:16Bathe yourself! Become clean! Remove the wickednesses from your souls before my eyes! Cease from your wickednesses!
1:17Learn to do good! Inquire of equity! Rescue the one wronged! Judge for the orphan! and do justice for the widow!
1:18And come, we should plead, says the lord. And if your sins should be as crimson, I shall whiten as snow; and if they should be as scarlet, I shall whiten as wool.
1:19And if you should want, and if you should listen to me, you shall eat the good things of the earth.
1:20But if you should not want, nor should you listen to me, a sword shall devour you. For the mouth of the lord spoke these things.
1:21O how the trustworthy city Zion became a harlot, full of judgment; in which righteousness slept in it, but now murderers.
1:22Your silver is debased; your peddlers mingle the wine with water.
1:23Your rulers resist persuasion, they are partners of thieves, loving bribes, pursuing recompense, not arbitrating for orphans, and not heeding equity of widows.
1:24On account of this, thus says the master, the lord of Hosts, Woe the ones being strong of Israel, for my rage will not cease among the contrary ones, and I will execute judgment on my enemies.
1:25And I will bring my hand against you, and I will purify you to cleanness. But the ones resisting persuasion I will destroy, and I will remove all lawless ones from you.
1:26And all the proud I will abase; and I will stand your judges as formerly, and your counselors as at the beginning. And after these things you shall be called, City of Righteousness, the trustworthy mother-city Zion.
1:27For with judgment her captivity shall be delivered, and with charity.
1:28And the lawless ones and the sinners shall be broken together; and the ones abandoning the lord shall be finished off entirely.
1:29For they shall be ashamed of their idols, which they preferred; and they shall be ashamed over the gardens which they desired.
1:30For they will be as a terebinth tree throwing off its leaves, and as a park not having water.
1:31And their strength will be as the stubble of hemp; and their works as sparks, and the lawless ones and the sinners shall be incinerated together, and there will not be one extinguishing.