Noyes - Isaiah - 1

1:1  The visions 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.

1:2  Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth! For Jehovah speaketh: "I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against me.

1:3  The ox knoweth his owner, And the ass his master’s crib; But Israel doth not know; My people do not consider."

1:4  Ah, sinful nation! a people laden with iniquity! A race of evil-doers! degenerate children! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have despised the Holy One of Israel; They have gone backward.

1:5  Where can ye be smitten again, Since ye renew your rebellion? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint;

1:6  From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it; It is all bruises, and stripes, and flesh wounds, Neither pressed, nor bound up, nor softened with ointment.

1:7  Your country is desolate; Your cities are burnt with fire; Your ground, strangers devour it before your eyes; It is become desolate, destroyed by an enemy.

1:8  And the daughter of Zion is left as a shed in a vineyard, As a hut in a garden of cucumbers, As a besieged city.

1:9  Had not Jehovah of hosts left us a small remnant, We had soon become as Sodom; We had been like to Gomorrah.

1:10  Hear ye the word of Jehovah, ye princes of Sodom! Give ear to the instruction of our God, ye people of Gomorrah!

1:11  What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah; I am satiated with burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; In the blood of bullocks and of lambs and of goats I have no delight.

1:12  When ye come to appear before me, Who hath required this of you, to tread my courts?

1:13  Bring no more false oblations! Incense is an abomination to me, The new moon also, and the sabbath, and the calling of the assembly; Iniquity and festivals I cannot endure.

1:14  Your new moons and your feasts my soul hateth; They are a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.

1:15  When ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; Yea, when ye multiply prayers, I will not hear: Your hands are full of blood!

1:16  Wash you; make you clean; Put away your evil doings from before mine eyes;

1:17  Cease to do evil; Learn to do well; Seek justice; relieve the oppressed; Defend the fatherless; plead for the widow!

1:18  Come, now, and let us argue together, saith Jehovah. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; Though they be red as crimson, they shall be like wool.

1:19  If ye be willing and obedient, Ye shall consume the good of the land.

1:20  But if ye refuse, and be rebellious, The sword shall consume you; For the mouth of Jehovah hath said it.

1:21  How is the faithful city become a harlot, She that was full of equity! Once justice dwelt in her, but now murderers!

1:22  Thy silver is become dross; Thy wine is adulterated with water.

1:23  Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves; Every one of them loveth gifts, and seeketh rewards; They render not justice to the fatherless, And the cause of the widow cometh not before them.

1:24  Wherefore, thus saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ha! I will ease me of mine adversaries, And avenge me of mine enemies.

1:25  And I will again turn my hand toward thee, And wholly purge away thy dross, And take away all thy alloy.

1:26  And I will restore thee judges, as at the first, And counsellors, as at the beginning. Then shalt thou be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.

1:27  Through justice shall Zion be delivered, And her reformed sons through righteousness.

1:28  But destruction shall fall at once on the rebels and sinners; Yea, they that forsake Jehovah shall be consumed.

1:29  For ye shall be ashamed of the terebinths in which ye delighted; Ye shall blush for the gardens which ye loved;

1:30  And ye shall be as a terebinth-tree whose leaves are withered, And as a garden in which is no water.

1:31  The strong shall become tow, And his work a spark of fire; Both shall burn together, And none shall quench them.