¹ The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he 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 has spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. ³ The ox know his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people does not consider. ⁴ Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have abandoned the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they are gone away backward. ⁵ Why should you be struck any more? You will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ⁶ From the sole of the foot even to 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 to us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrah. ¹⁰ Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah. ¹¹ To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? says 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 you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to tread my courts? ¹³ Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination to 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 hates: they are a trouble to me I am weary to bear [them]. ¹⁵ And when you spread forward your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my 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, says the LORD: even though your sins be as scarlet, they will be as white as snow; even though they be red like crimson, they will be as wool. ¹⁹ If you be willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land ²⁰ But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken [it]. ²¹ How is the faithful city become an prostitute ! it was full of judgment righteousness lodged in it but now murderers. ²² your silver is become dross, your wine mixed with water ²³ your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them. ²⁴ Therefore says the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of my adversaries, and avenge me of my enemies ²⁵ And I will turn my hand on you, and purely purge away your dross, and take away all your tin ²⁶ And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counsellors as at the beginning: afterward you will be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city. ²⁷ Zion will be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. ²⁸ And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners will be together, and those abandon the LORD will be consumed. ²⁹ For they will be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you will be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen. ³⁰ For you will be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water. ³¹ And the strong will be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they will both burn together, and none will quench [them].