Isaiah 1
World English Bible (WEB) • 31 verses
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.
Related2 Chronicles 26:1-32:33 · 2 Kings 18:1-20:21 · Psalms 89:19 · 2 Kings 15:7 · Isaiah 40:9 · Isaiah 21:2
2Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for the LORD has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.
RelatedDeuteronomy 32:1 · Deuteronomy 30:19 · Micah 1:2 · Deuteronomy 4:26 · Psalms 50:4 · Malachi 1:6
3The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”
4Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
5Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
RelatedDaniel 9:8-11 · Ezekiel 24:13 · Jeremiah 5:3 · Revelation 16:8-11 · Zephaniah 3:1-4 · Isaiah 31:6
6From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.
7Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
RelatedDeuteronomy 28:43 · Lamentations 5:2 · Deuteronomy 28:33 · Hosea 7:9 · Ezekiel 30:12 · 2 Chronicles 28:5
8The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.
9Unless the LORD of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom. We would have been like Gomorrah.
RelatedRomans 9:29 · Isaiah 37:31-32 · Genesis 19:24 · Lamentations 3:22 · Romans 11:4-6 · Amos 4:11
10Hear the LORD’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
RelatedIsaiah 3:9 · Revelation 11:8 · Ezekiel 16:49 · Deuteronomy 32:32 · Isaiah 8:20 · Isaiah 28:14
11“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says the LORD. “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.
12When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
13Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations— I can’t stand evil assemblies.
14My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.
15When you spread out 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.
16Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
RelatedIsaiah 55:6-7 · 1 Peter 3:11 · 1 Peter 2:1 · 2 Corinthians 7:1 · James 4:8 · Ezekiel 18:30-31
17Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
18“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says the LORD: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
RelatedIsaiah 44:22 · Revelation 7:14 · Psalms 51:7 · Micah 7:18-19 · Isaiah 43:24-26 · Ephesians 1:6-8
19If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;
RelatedDeuteronomy 30:15-16 · Isaiah 3:10 · Joel 2:26 · Hebrews 5:9 · Isaiah 55:6-7 · Matthew 21:28-32
20but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword; for the LORD’s mouth has spoken it.”
21How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice. Righteousness lodged in her, but now there are murderers.
22Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.
RelatedLamentations 4:1-2 · Hosea 4:18 · Ezekiel 22:18-22 · Jeremiah 6:28-30 · Hosea 6:4 · 2 Corinthians 2:17
23Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
24Therefore the Lord, GOD of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: “Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself on my enemies.
25I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.
26I 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.’
RelatedJeremiah 33:7 · Zechariah 8:3 · Isaiah 62:1-2 · Isaiah 60:14 · Ezekiel 34:23-24 · Isaiah 32:1-2
27Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.
RelatedIsaiah 62:12 · Isaiah 5:16 · Isaiah 45:21-25 · Isaiah 63:4 · Romans 3:24-26 · Ephesians 1:7-8
28But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
29For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.
30For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.
RelatedJeremiah 17:5-6 · Matthew 21:19 · Jeremiah 31:12 · Ezekiel 17:24 · Isaiah 5:6 · Ezekiel 17:9-10
31The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. They will both burn together, and no one will quench them.”
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