Isaie 1

¹The vision of Isaie the son of Amos, which he saw concerning Juda and Jerusalem in the days of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda.

²Hear ye heavens, & give ear o earth, because our Lord hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have despised me.

³The oxe hath known his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.

⁴Woe to the sinful nation, the people laden with grievous iniquity, the wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken our Lord, they have blasphemed the holy one of Israel, they are revolted backwards.

⁵For what shall I strike you any more, which add prevarication? Every head is sick, & every heart in heaviness.

⁶From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no health therein: wound, and wail, and swelling stroke: it is not bound up, nor cured with medicine, nor mollified with oil.

⁷Your land is desolate, your cities burnt with fire: your country strangers devour before your face, and it shall be made desolate as in the spoil of enemies.

⁸And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a vineyard, and as a cottage in a place of cucumbers, and as a city that is wasted.

⁹Unless the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom, and we should be like to Gomorrha.

¹⁰Hear the word of our Lord ye Princes of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God ye people of Gomorrha.

¹¹To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith our Lord? I am full, the holocaust of rams, and the fat of fatlings, and the blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats I have not desired.

¹²When you should have come before my sight, who sought for these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?

¹³Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is abomination to me. The New moon, and the Sabbath, and other festivities I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.

¹⁴My soul hateth your Calends, and your solemnities: they are become tedious to me, I have laboured in sustaining.

¹⁵And when you shall stretch forth your hands, I will turn away mine eyes from you: & when you shall multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.

¹⁶Wash you, be clean, take away the evil of your cogitations from mine eyes: cease to do perversely,

¹⁷Learn to do good: seek judgement, succour the oppressed, judge for the pupil, defend the widow.

¹⁸And come, and accuse me, saith our Lord: if your sins shall be as scarlet, they shall be made white as snow: and if they be red as vermilion, they shall be white as wool.

¹⁹If you be willing, and will hear me, you shall eat the good things of the earth.

²⁰But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you, because the mouth of our Lord hath spoken.

²¹How is the faithful city full of judgement become an harlot? Justice hath dwelled in it, but now mankillers.

²²Thy silver is turned into dross: thy wine is mingled with water.

²³Thy princes are unfaithful, companions of thieves: all love gifts, follow rewards. They judge not for the pupil: and the widow's cause goeth not in to them.

²⁴For this cause saith our Lord the God of hosts the mighty one of Israel: Alas! I will comfort myself upon mine adversaries: and will be revenged of mine enemies.

²⁵And I will turn mine hand to thee, and I will boil out thy dross till it be pure, & will take away all thy tin.

²⁶And I will restore thy judges as they have been before, and thy counsellers as of old. After these things thou shalt be called the just, a faithful city.

²⁷Sion shall be redeemed in judgement, and they shall bring her back in justice.

²⁸And he shall destroy the wicked and the sinners together: and they that have forsaken our Lord, shall be consumed.

²⁹For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens, which you chose.

³⁰When you shall be as an oak the leaves falling off, and as a garden without water.

³¹And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a spark: and both shall be set on fire together, and there shall be none to quench it.