Isaiah 1
About Isaiah Isaiah warns of judgment and promises comfort, a coming king, a suffering servant and a new creation.
1The 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.SelectedIsaiah 1:1Ask
2Hear, 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.SelectedIsaiah 1:2Ask
3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.SelectedIsaiah 1:3Ask
4Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.SelectedIsaiah 1:4Ask
5Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.SelectedIsaiah 1:5Ask
6From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.SelectedIsaiah 1:6Ask
7Your 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.SelectedIsaiah 1:7Ask
8And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.SelectedIsaiah 1:8Ask
9Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.SelectedIsaiah 1:9Ask
10Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.SelectedIsaiah 1:10Ask
11To what purpose is the 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.SelectedIsaiah 1:11Ask
12When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?SelectedIsaiah 1:12Ask
13Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.SelectedIsaiah 1:13Ask
14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.SelectedIsaiah 1:14Ask
15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.SelectedIsaiah 1:15Ask
16Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;SelectedIsaiah 1:16Ask
17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.SelectedIsaiah 1:17Ask
18Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.SelectedIsaiah 1:18Ask
19If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:SelectedIsaiah 1:19Ask
20But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.SelectedIsaiah 1:20Ask
21How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.SelectedIsaiah 1:21Ask
22Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:SelectedIsaiah 1:22Ask
23Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.SelectedIsaiah 1:23Ask
24Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:SelectedIsaiah 1:24Ask
25And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:SelectedIsaiah 1:25Ask
26And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.SelectedIsaiah 1:26Ask
27Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.SelectedIsaiah 1:27Ask
28And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.SelectedIsaiah 1:28Ask
29For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.SelectedIsaiah 1:29Ask
30For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.SelectedIsaiah 1:30Ask
31And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.SelectedIsaiah 1:31Ask
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