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| Isaiah 1:1 | 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. | The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he saw about Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. |
| Isaiah 1:2 | Hear, heavens, And listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against me. | Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me. |
| Isaiah 1:3 | The ox knows his owner, And the donkey his master's crib; But Israel doesn't know, My people don't consider. | Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me. |
| Isaiah 1:4 | Ah sinful nation, A people laden with iniquity, A seed of evil-doers, Children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward. | O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him. |
| Isaiah 1:5 | Why should you be beaten more, That you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faint. | Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble. |
| Isaiah 1:6 | From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: Wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven't been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil. | The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds. |
| Isaiah 1:7 | Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, And it is desolate, As overthrown by strangers. | Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands. |
| Isaiah 1:8 | The daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, As a besieged city. | And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman's house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies. |
| Isaiah 1:9 | Unless Yahweh of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, We would have been as Sodom; We would have been like Gomorrah. | If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours. |
| Isaiah 1:10 | Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom. Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah. | Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah. |
| Isaiah 1:11 | What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?, says Yahweh. I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, And the fat of fed animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls, Or of lambs, Or of male goats. | What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats. |
| Isaiah 1:12 | When you come to appear before me, Who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts? | At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet? |
| Isaiah 1:13 | Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can't bear with evil assemblies. | Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings. |
| Isaiah 1:14 | My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts; they are a trouble to me; I am weary of bearing them. | Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them. |
| Isaiah 1:15 | When you spread forth 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. | And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood. |
| Isaiah 1:16 | Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil; | Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning; |
| Isaiah 1:17 | learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. | Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow. |
| Isaiah 1:18 | Come now, and let us reason together, says Yahweh: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. | Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool? |
| Isaiah 1:19 | If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land: | If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours; |
| Isaiah 1:20 | but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it. | But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said. |
| Isaiah 1:21 | How is the faithful city become a prostitute! she who was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers. | The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives. |
| Isaiah 1:22 | Your silver is become dross, your wine mixed with water. | Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water. |
| Isaiah 1:23 | Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards: they don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them. | Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them. |
| Isaiah 1:24 | Therefore says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of my adversaries, and avenge me of my enemies; | For this reason the Lord, the Lord of armies, the Strong One of Israel, has said, I will put an end to my haters, and send punishment on those who are against me; |
| Isaiah 1:25 | and I will turn my hand on you, and thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin; | And my hand will again be on you, washing away what is unclean as with soap, and taking away all your false metal; |
| Isaiah 1:26 | and I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning: afterward you shall be called The city of righteousness, a faithful town. | And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town. |
| Isaiah 1:27 | Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness. | Upright acts will be the price of Zion's forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there. |
| Isaiah 1:28 | But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed. | But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off. |
| Isaiah 1:29 | For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen. | For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure. |
| Isaiah 1:30 | For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water. | For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water. |
| Isaiah 1:31 | The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. They will both burn together, and no one will quench them. | And the strong will be as food for the fire, and his work as a flame; and they will be burned together, with no one to put out the fire. |
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