†The Book of the Prophet

Isaiah

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.

2  fHear, 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.

3  hThe ox knoweth his owner,

And the ass his master’s icrib:

But Israel kldoth not know,

My people ldoth not consider.

4  Ah 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.

5  oWhy 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 psoundness in it;

But qwounds, and qrbruises, and sputrifying sores:

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

7  uYour 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 vas a cottage in a vineyard,

As vva lodge win a garden of cucumbers,

As a besieged city.

9  xExcept 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.

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

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

11  To 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.

12  When ye come †dto appear before me,

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

13  Bring 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.

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

They are ma trouble unto me;

nI am weary to bear them.

15  And 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.

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

17  Learn to do well;

tuSeek judgment, ||relieve the oppressed,

tJudge vthe fatherless, plead for vthe widow.

18  Come 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.

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:

yFor the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

21  How is the faithful city zbecome an harlot!

It was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it;

But now murderers.

22  aThy silver is become dross,

bThy wine mixed with water:

23  cThy 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.

24  Therefore 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:

25  And I will lturn my hand upon thee,

And †purely mpurge away athy dross,

And take away all thy tin:

26  And 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.

27  Zion shall be redeemed with judgment,

And ||her converts with righteousness.

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

And they that rforsake the Lord shall be consumed.

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

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

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

And as ua garden that hath no water.

31  And 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.

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

2  aaAnd 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.

3  And 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.

4  And 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.

5  O house of Jacob, come ye,

And let us owalk in the light of the Lord.

6  Therefore 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.

7  Their 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:

8  Their land also is vfull of widols;

They worship the work of their own hands,

That which their own fingers have made:

9  And xthe mean man boweth down,

And xthe great man yhumbleth himself:

Therefore forgive them not.

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

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

11  bThe 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.

12  For 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:

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

And upon all gthe oaks of Bashan,

14  And hupon all the high mountains,

And hupon all the hills that are lifted up,

15  And upon every high tower,

And upon every fenced wall,

16  And upon all ithe ships of Tarshish,

And upon all †pleasant pictures.

17  And 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.

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

19  And 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.

20  dIn 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;

21  lTo 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.

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

For wherein is he to be accounted of?