Isaiah 1

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1 The 1vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem 2in the days of 3Uzziah, 4Jotham, 5Ahaz, and 6Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

The Wickedness of Judah

2 7Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O 8earth; for the LORD has spoken: "Children[a]9have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox 10knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does 11not know, my people do not understand."
4 Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, 12offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD, they have 13despised 14the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly 15estranged.
5 Why will you still be 16struck down? Why will you 17continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6 18From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and raw wounds; they are 19not pressed out or bound up or softened with oil.
7 20Your country lies desolate; your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence foreigners devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.
8 And 21the daughter of Zion is left like a 22booth in a vineyard, like a lodge in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.
9 23If the LORD of hosts had not left us 24a few survivors, we should have been like 25Sodom, and become like 26Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching[b] of our God, you people of 27Gomorrah!
11 28"What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the LORD; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.
12 "When you come to 29appear before me, who has required of you this trampling of my courts?
13 Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me. 30New moon and Sabbath and the 31calling of convocations-- I cannot endure 32iniquity and 33solemn assembly.
14 Your 34new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.
15 When you 35spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; 36even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; 37your hands are full of blood.
16 38Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; 39cease to do evil,
17 learn to do good; 40seek justice, correct oppression; 41bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
18 "Come now, 42let us reason[c] together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as 43white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
19 44If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;
20 but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword; 45for the mouth of the LORD has spoken."

The Unfaithful City

21 How the faithful city 46has become a whore,[d] 47she who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
22 48Your silver has become dross, your best wine mixed with water.
23 Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone 49loves a bribe and runs after gifts. 50They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.
24 Therefore the 51Lord declares, the LORD of hosts, the 52Mighty One of Israel: "Ah, I will get relief from my enemies 53and avenge myself on my foes.
25 54I will turn my hand against you and will smelt away your 55dross as with lye and remove all your alloy.
26 And I will restore your judges 56as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward 57you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city."
27 58Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who repent, by righteousness.
28 59But rebels and sinners shall be broken together, and those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
29 60For they[e] shall be ashamed of 61the oaks that you desired; and you shall blush for 62the gardens that you have chosen.
30 For you shall be 63like an oak whose leaf withers, and like a garden without water.
31 And the strong shall become 64tinder, and his work a spark, and both of them shall burn together, with 65none to quench them.

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Cross References 65

  • 1. Isaiah 6:1
  • 2. Hosea 1:1; Micah 1:1
  • 3. [2 Kings 15:1, 7]; See 2 Chronicles 26
  • 4. See 2 Kings 15:32-38; 2 Chronicles 27
  • 5. Isaiah 7:1, 3, 10, 12; Isaiah 14:28; See 2 Kings 16; 2 Chronicles 28
  • 6. See Isaiah 37:2 - 39:8; 2 Kings 18-20; 2 Chronicles 29 - 32
  • 7. Deuteronomy 32:1; [Deuteronomy 4:26]
  • 8. Micah 1:2; Micah 6:2
  • 9. [Deut. 32:6, 10, 15]
  • 10. [Jeremiah 8:7]
  • 11. [Jeremiah 8:7]
  • 12. [Matthew 3:7]
  • 13. Isaiah 5:24
  • 14. See Isaiah 31:1
  • 15. Ezekiel 14:5
  • 16. Jeremiah 5:3; [Isaiah 9:13]
  • 17. Isaiah 31:6
  • 18. Psalms 38:3
  • 19. [Jeremiah 8:22]
  • 20. Isaiah 5:5; Isaiah 6:11, 12; Deuteronomy 28:51, 52
  • 21. Isaiah 10:32; Isaiah 37:22; Zechariah 2:10; Zechariah 9:9
  • 22. Job 27:18
  • 23. Lamentations 3:22
  • 24. Isaiah 10:21, 22; Cited Romans 9:29
  • 25. Isaiah 13:19; Genesis 19:24, 25
  • 26. Isaiah 13:19; Genesis 19:24, 25
  • 27. [Deuteronomy 32:32]
  • 28. Proverbs 15:8; Jeremiah 6:20; Malachi 1:10; [Isaiah 66:3]; See 1 Samuel 15:22
  • 29. Exodus 23:17; Exodus 34:23
  • 30. Numbers 28:11; 1 Chronicles 23:31
  • 31. Exodus 12:16; Leviticus 23:36
  • 32. [Jeremiah 7:9, 10]
  • 33. See Joel 2:15-17
  • 34. [See ver. 13 above]
  • 35. 1 Kings 8:22
  • 36. Proverbs 1:28; Micah 3:4
  • 37. Isaiah 59:3
  • 38. [Jeremiah 2:22]
  • 39. [1 Peter 3:11]
  • 40. Jeremiah 22:3
  • 41. [ver. 23; James 1:27]
  • 42. Micah 6:2; [Isaiah 43:26]
  • 43. Psalms 51:7; [Revelation 7:14]
  • 44. Deuteronomy 30:15, 16
  • 45. ver. 2; Isaiah 24:3; Isaiah 40:5; Isaiah 58:14; Micah 4:4; [Numbers 23:19]
  • 46. Jeremiah 2:20; [Exodus 34:15]
  • 47. [Jeremiah 31:23]
  • 48. [Jeremiah 6:30; Ezekiel 22:18]
  • 49. Micah 7:3; [Exodus 23:8]
  • 50. Jeremiah 5:28; Zechariah 7:10; [ver. 17]
  • 51. Isaiah 3:1; Isaiah 10:33
  • 52. Psalms 132:2
  • 53. [Deuteronomy 32:41]
  • 54. Psalms 81:14; Amos 1:8; [Isaiah 5:25]
  • 55. [Ezekiel 22:20; Malachi 3:3]
  • 56. Jeremiah 33:7, 11
  • 57. [Zechariah 8:3]
  • 58. Jeremiah 22:3, 4
  • 59. Job 31:3; Psalms 1:6
  • 60. Hosea 4:19
  • 61. Isaiah 57:5; Hosea 4:13
  • 62. Isaiah 65:3; Isaiah 66:17
  • 63. [Jeremiah 17:8]
  • 64. Judges 16:9
  • 65. Isaiah 66:24

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Isaiah 1 Commentaries

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