Isaiah 1

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1 The vision of Isaiah, son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, - the kings of Judah.

2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knoweth his owner, and a donkey - his master's crib; but Israel does not know [me], my people doth not consider.
4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children are corrupters! Have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel, --povernulis ago.
5 What you have to beat another, continuing its persistence? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it: ulcers, spots, suppurating wounds, untreated and neobvyazannye not mollified with ointment.
7 Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your fields in your land, strangers devour; it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
8 And the daughter of Zion as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
9 If the Lord of hosts had left us a few survivors, we should have been as Sodom, and like unto Gomorrah.

10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; hearken to the law of our God, people of Gomorrah!
eleven What I multitude of your sacrifices? Saith the LORD. I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts, and the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
12 When you come to appear before me, who requires of you, to trample My courts?
13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and Sabbaths, assemblies can not endure iniquity - and a celebration!
14 Your new moons and your feasts my soul hateth: they are a burden to me; I am weary to bear them.
15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I hide my eyes from you; when ye 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 mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17 learn to do good; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.
18 Come now - and let us reason together, saith the LORD. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white --As snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be white --As wave.
19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land;
20 if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

21 How to become a harlot faithful city, full of justice! Righteousness lodged in it, and now - the killer.
22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine is spoiled by water;
23 thy princes - and companions of thieves; they all love gifts and chasing mzdoyu; not the fatherless, and the cause of the widow come unto them.
24 Therefore saith the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah, I Myself on My adversaries, and take vengeance to my enemies!
25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and, as with lye, will I cleanse you with an impurity, and separated from all thy tin;
26 And I will restore your judges as at first, and your counselors as at the beginning; then you shall be called: `The city of righteousness, the faithful city."
27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts [the children] it - the truth;
28 all of the transgressors and sinners - destruction, and forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
29 They will be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen you;
thirty For ye shall be as an oak, [which] leaf fadeth, and as a garden that has no water.
31 And the strong shall be as tow, and his work - spark; and they shall both burn together, --and none shall quench them.

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