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The Prophecy
of Isaias 1
The vision of Isaias the son of Amos I which he saw
concerning Juda and Jerusalem in the days of Ozias,
Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda
Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord
hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted
them: but they have despised me.
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib:
but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not
understood.
Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity,
a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken
the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel,
they are gone away backwards.
For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase
transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole
heart is sad.
From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head,
there is no soundness therein: wounds and bruises and
swelling sores: they are not bound up, nor dressed,
nor fomented with oil.
Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire:
your country strangers devour before your face, and
it shall be desolate as when wasted by enemies.
And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in
a vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers,
and as a city that is laid waste.
Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been
as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrha.
Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give
ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.
To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your
victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts
of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and
lambs, and buck goats.
When you came to appear before me, who required these
things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?
Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination
tome. The new moons, and the sabbaths, and other festivals
I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.
My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities:
they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing
them.
And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away
my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will
not hear: for your hands are full of blood.
Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your
devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely,
Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed,
judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.
And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your
sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow:
and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as
wool.
if you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall
eat the good things of the land.
But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the
sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord
hath spoken it.
How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment,
become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.
Thy silver is turned into dress: thy wine is mingled
with water.
Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they
all love bribes, the run after rewards. They judge not
for the fatherless: and the widow's cometh not in to
them.
Therefore saith the Lord the God of hosts, the mighty
one of Israel: Ah! I will comfort myself over my adversaries:
and I will be revenged of my enemies.
And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge
away thy dress, and I will take away all thy tin.
And I will restore thy judges se they were before, and
thy counsellors as of old. After this thou shalt be
called the city of the just, a faithful city.
Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring
her back in justice.
And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together:
and they that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed.
For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which
they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the
gardens which you have chosen.
When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling
off, and as a garden without water.
And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and
your work as a spark: and both shall burn together,
and there shall be none to quench it.
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