LEB - Isaiah - 1

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

1:2  Hear, heavens, and listen, earth, for Yahweh has spoken: “I reared children and I brought them up, but they rebelled against me.

1:3  An ox knows its owner and a donkey the manger of its master. Israel does not know; my people do not understand.

1:4  Ah, sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly. They have forsaken Yahweh; they have despised the holy one of Israel. They are estranged and gone backward.

1:5  Why do you want to be beaten again? You continue in rebellion. The whole of the head is sick, and the whole of the heart is faint.

1:6  From the sole of the foot and up to the head there is no health in it; bruise and sore and bleeding wound have not been cleansed, and they have not been bound up and not softened with the oil.

1:7  Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; As for your land, aliens are devouring it in your presence, and it is desolate, like devastation by foreigners.

1:8  And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a shelter in a cucumber field, like a city that is besieged.

1:9  If Yahweh of hosts had not left us survivors, we would have been as few as Sodom, we would have become like Gomorrah.

1:10  Hear the word of Yahweh, rulers of Sodom! Listen to the teaching of our God, people of Gomorrah!

1:11  What is the abundance of your sacrifices to me? says Yahweh. I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fattened animals and I do not delight in the blood of bulls and ram-lambs and goats.

1:12  When you come to appear before me, who asked for this from your hand: you trampling my courts?

1:13  You must not ⌞continue⌟ to bring offerings of futility, incense—it is an abomination to me; new moon and Sabbath, the calling of a convocation— I cannot endure iniquity with solemn assembly.

1:14  Your new moons and your appointed festivals my soul hates; they have become to me like a burden, I am not able to bear them.

1:15  And when you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not be listening. Your hands are full of blood.

1:16  Wash! Make yourselves clean! Remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes! Cease to do evil!

1:17  Learn to do good! Seek justice! Rescue the oppressed! Defend the orphan! Plead for the widow!

1:18  “Come now, and let us argue,” says Yahweh. “Even though your sins are like scarlet, they will be white like snow; even though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

1:19  If you are willing and you are obedient, you shall eat the good of the land.

1:20  But if you refuse and you rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword. For the mouth of Yahweh has spoken.”

1:21  How has a faithful city become like a whore? Full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

1:22  Your silver has become as dross; Your wine is diluted with waters.

1:23  Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the orphan and the legal dispute of the widow does not come before them.

1:24  Therefore, the declaration of the Lord Yahweh of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: “Ah, I will be relieved of my enemies, and I will avenge myself on my foes.

1:25  And I will turn my hand against you; I will purify your dross like lye, and I will remove all of your tin.

1:26  And I will restore your judges, as at the first, and your counselors, as at the beginning. After this ⌞you will be called⌟ the city of righteousness, faithful city.

1:27  Zion will be redeemed by justice, and those of her who repent, by righteousness.

1:28  But the destruction of rebels and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh will perish.

1:29  For you will be ashamed of the oaks in which you delighted, and you will be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen.

1:30  For you shall be like an oak withering its leaves, and like a garden where there is no water for her.

1:31  And the strong man shall become like tinder, and his work like a spark. And both of them shall burn together, and there is not one to quench them.”