Isaiah 1–5

1^*The ^avision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem ^aain the days of ^bUzziah, ^cJotham, ^dAhaz, and ^eHezekiah, kings of Judah.

^2fHear, O heavens, and ^ggive ear, O earth:

For the Lord hath spoken,

I have ^ggnourished and brought up children,

And they have rebelled against me.

^3hThe ox knoweth his owner,

And the ass his master’s ⁱcrib:

But Israel ^kldoth not know,

My people ^ldoth not consider.

⁴Ah sinful nation, a people ^†laden with iniquity,

^mA seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters:

They have forsaken the Lord,

They have ⁿprovoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger,

They are ^†gone away backward.

^5oWhy should ye be stricken any more?

Ye will ^†revolt more and more:

The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

⁶From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no ^psoundness in it;

But ^qwounds, and ^qrbruises, and ^sputrifying sores:

They have not been closed, neither bound up, neither ^tmollified with ^||ointment.

^7uYour 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.

⁸And the daughter of Zion is left ^vas a cottage in a vineyard,

As ^vva lodge ^win a garden of cucumbers,

As a besieged city.

^9xExcept the Lord of hosts had left unto us ^ya very small remnant,

We should have been as ^zSodom,

And we should have been like unto ^zGomorrah.

¹⁰Hear the word of the Lord, ye ^arulers of ^bSodom;

Give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

¹¹To what purpose is ^cthe 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.

¹²When ye come ^†dto appear before me,

^eWho hath required this at your hand, to tread ^fmy courts?

¹³Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me;

^ghThe new moons and ^gsabbaths, the calling of assemblies, ⁱI cannot away with;

It is ^||iniquity, even ^kthe solemn meeting.

¹⁴Your ^hnew moons and your ^lappointed feasts my soul hateth:

They are ^ma trouble unto me;

ⁿI am weary to bear them.

¹⁵And ^owhen ye spread forth your hands, ^pI will hide mine eyes from you:

Yea, when ye ^†make many prayers, I will not hear:

^qYour hands are full of ^†blood.

^16rWash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; ^scease to do evil;

¹⁷Learn to do well;

^tuSeek judgment, ^||relieve the oppressed,

^tJudge ^vthe fatherless, plead for ^vthe widow.

¹⁸Come now, and ^wlet us reason together, saith the Lord:

Though your sins be as scarlet, ^xthey shall be as white as snow;

Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

¹⁹If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

²⁰But if ye refuse and rebel,

Ye shall be devoured with the sword:

^yFor the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

²¹How is the faithful city ^zbecome an harlot!

It was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it;

But now murderers.

^22aThy silver is become dross,

^bThy wine mixed with water:

^23cThy princes are rebellious, and ^dcompanions of thieves:

Every one ^eloveth gifts, and followeth after rewards:

^fThey judge not the fatherless,

Neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

²⁴Therefore saith ^gthe Lord, the Lord of hosts, ^hthe mighty One of Israel,

Ah, I will ⁱease me of mine adversaries,

And ^kavenge me of mine enemies:

²⁵And I will ^lturn my hand upon thee,

And ^†purely ^mpurge away ^athy dross,

And take away all thy tin:

²⁶And I will restore thy judges ⁿas at the first,

And thy counsellers as at the beginning:

Afterward thou shalt be called,

The city of righteousness, ^othe faithful city.

²⁷Zion shall be redeemed with judgment,

And ^||her converts with righteousness.

²⁸And ^pthe ^†qdestruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together,

And they that ^rforsake the Lord shall be consumed.

²⁹For they shall be ^sashamed of ^tthe oaks which ye have desired,

And ye shall be confounded for ^uthe gardens that ye have chosen.

³⁰For ye shall be as ^van oak whose leaf fadeth,

And as ^ua garden that hath no water.

³¹And the strong shall be ^xas tow,

^||And the maker of it as a spark,

And ^ythey shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

2The word that ^aIsaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

^2aaAnd it shall come to pass ^bin the last days,

That ^cthe mountain of the Lord’s house shall be ^||destablished in the top of the mountains,

And shall be exalted above the hills;

And ^efall nations shall flow unto it.

³And many people shall go and say,

^gCome ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,

To the house of the God of Jacob;

And he will ^hteach us of his ways,

And we will walk in his paths:

For ⁱout of Zion shall go forth the law,

And ^fthe word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

⁴And he shall judge among the nations,

And shall rebuke many people:

And ^kthey shall beat their swords into ^lplowshares,

^kAnd their spears into ^||mpruninghooks:

Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,

ⁿNeither shall they learn war any more.

⁵O house of Jacob, come ye,

And let us ^owalk in the light of the Lord.

⁶Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob,

Because they be replenished ^||pfrom the east,

And are ^qsoothsayers ^rlike the Philistines,

And they ^||splease themselves in the children of strangers.

⁷Their land also is ^tfull of silver and gold,

Neither is there any end of their treasures;

Their land is also ^ufull of horses,

Neither is there any end of their chariots:

⁸Their land also is ^vfull of ^widols;

They worship the work of their own hands,

That which their own fingers have made:

⁹And ^xthe mean man boweth down,

And ^xthe great man ^yhumbleth himself:

Therefore forgive them not.

^10zEnter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust,

^zaFor fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty.

^11bThe lofty looks of man shall be humbled,

And the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down,

And ^cthe Lord alone shall be exalted ^din that day.

¹²For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is ^eproud and lofty,

And upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be ^ebrought low:

¹³And upon all ^fthe cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up,

And upon all ^gthe oaks of Bashan,

¹⁴And ^hupon all the high mountains,

And ^hupon all the hills that are lifted up,

¹⁵And upon every high tower,

And upon every fenced wall,

¹⁶And upon all ⁱthe ships of Tarshish,

And upon all ^†pleasant pictures.

¹⁷And ^jthe loftiness of man shall be bowed down,

And the haughtiness of men shall be made low:

And the Lord alone shall be exalted ^jin that day.

¹⁸And ^k||the ^widols he shall utterly abolish.

¹⁹And ^lthey shall go into the ^mholes of the rocks,

And into the caves of ^†the earth,

^lFor fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty,

When he ariseth ⁿto shake terribly the earth.

^20dIn that day ^oa man shall cast ^†his ^widols of silver, and his ^widols of gold,

^||Which they made each one for himself to worship,

To the moles and to ^pthe bats;

^21lTo go into ^qthe clefts of the rocks,

And into ^rthe tops of the ragged rocks,

^lFor fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty,

When he ariseth ⁿto shake terribly the earth.

^22sCease ye from man, ^twhose breath is in his nostrils:

For wherein is he to be accounted of?

3For, behold, ^athe Lord, the Lord of hosts,

^bDoth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah ^cthe stay and the staff,

The whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

^2dThe mighty man, and the man of war,

The judge, and the prophet, and ^ethe prudent, and the ancient,

³The captain of fifty, and ^†the honourable man,

And the counseller, and ^fthe cunning artificer, and the ^||eloquent orator.

⁴And ^hI will give children to be their princes,

And ⁱbabes shall rule over them.

⁵And the people shall be ^joppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour:

The child shall ^kbehave himself proudly against the ancient,

And the base against the honourable.

⁶When ^la man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying,

Thou hast clothing, be thou our ^mruler,

And let this ⁿruin be under thy hand:

^7oIn that day shall he ^†swear, saying,

I will not be an ^†healer;

For in my house is neither bread nor clothing:

Make me not a ^mruler of the people.

⁸For Jerusalem ⁿis ruined, and Judah is fallen:

Because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord,

^pTo provoke the eyes of his glory.

⁹The shew of their countenance doth witness against them;

And they ^qdeclare their sin ^ras Sodom, they hide it not.

Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

¹⁰Say ye to the righteous, ^sthat it shall be ^twell with him:

For ^uthey shall eat the fruit of their doings.

¹¹Woe unto the wicked! ^vit shall be ill with him:

For ^wthe reward of his hands shall be ^†given him.

¹²As for my people, ^hchildren are their ^joppressors,

And women rule over them.

O my people, ^||they which lead thee cause thee to err,

And ^†destroy the way of thy paths.

¹³The Lord ^xstandeth up ^yto plead,

And standeth to judge the people.

¹⁴The Lord ^zwill enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof:

For ye have ^||eaten up ^athe vineyard;

The spoil of the poor is in your houses.

¹⁵What mean ye that ye ^bbeat my people to pieces,

And grind the faces of the poor?

Saith the Lord God of hosts.

¹⁶Moreover the Lord saith,

^cBecause ^dthe daughters of Zion are haughty,

And walk with stretched forth necks and ^†wanton eyes,

Walking and ^||mincing as they go,

And ^emaking a tinkling with their feet:

¹⁷Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of ^dthe daughters of Zion,

And the Lord will ^†fdiscover their secret parts.

^18gIn that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their ^etinkling ornaments about their feet,

And ^htheir ^||cauls, and their ⁱround tires like the moon,

¹⁹The ^||chains, and the bracelets, and the ^||mufflers,

^20kThe bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and ^lthe headbands,

And the ^†tablets, and ^mthe earrings,

²¹ⁿThe rings, and ^onose jewels,

^22pThe changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles,

And ^qthe wimples, and ^rthe crisping pins,

^23rrThe glasses, and ^sthe fine linen,

And ^tthe hoods, and ^uthe vails.

²⁴And it shall come to pass, that…