Isaiah 1

1 The vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

A Rebellious Nation

2 Hear me, you heavens! Listen, earth! For the LORD has spoken: “I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner’s manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.”
4 Woe to the sinful nation, a people whose guilt is great, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the LORD; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him.
5 Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted.
6 From the sole of your foot to the top of your head there is no soundness— only wounds and welts and open sores, not cleansed or bandaged or soothed with olive oil.
7 Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.
8 Daughter Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a city under siege.
9 Unless the LORD Almighty had left us some survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
11 “The multitude of your sacrifices— what are they to me?” says the LORD. “I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
12 When you come to appear before me, who has asked this of you, this trampling of my courts?
13 Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations— I cannot bear your worthless assemblies.
14 Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals I hate with all my being. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.
15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood!
16 Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong.
17 Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed.[a]Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.
18 “Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.
19 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land;
20 but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
21 See how the faithful city has become a prostitute! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her— but now murderers!
22 Your silver has become dross, your choice wine is diluted with water.
23 Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them.
24 Therefore the Lord, the LORD Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: “Ah! I will vent my wrath on my foes and avenge myself on my enemies.
25 I will turn my hand against you;[b]I will thoroughly purge away your dross and remove all your impurities.
26 I will restore your leaders as in days of old, your rulers as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”
27 Zion will be delivered with justice, her penitent ones with righteousness.
28 But rebels and sinners will both be broken, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.
29 “You will be ashamed because of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen.
30 You will be like an oak with fading leaves, like a garden without water.
31 The mighty man will become tinder and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the fire.”

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Cross References 109

  • 1. Numbers 12:6; 1 Samuel 3:1; Isaiah 22:1,5; Obadiah 1:1; Nahum 1:1
  • 2. Isaiah 40:9; Isaiah 44:26
  • 3. Isaiah 2:1; Isaiah 13:1
  • 4. S 2 Kings 14:21; S 2 Chronicles 26:22
  • 5. S 1 Chronicles 3:12
  • 6. S 2 Kings 16:1
  • 7. S 1 Chronicles 3:13
  • 8. S Deuteronomy 4:26
  • 9. Judges 11:10; Jeremiah 42:5; Micah 1:2
  • 10. Isaiah 23:4; Isaiah 63:16
  • 11. ver 4,23; Isaiah 24:5,20; Isaiah 30:1,9; Isaiah 46:8; Isaiah 48:8; Isaiah 57:4; Isaiah 65:2; Isaiah 66:24; Ezekiel 24:3; Haggai 1:12; Malachi 1:6; Malachi 3:5
  • 12. Job 12:9
  • 13. S Genesis 42:27
  • 14. Jeremiah 4:22; Jeremiah 5:4; Jeremiah 8:7; Jeremiah 9:3,6; Hosea 2:8; Hosea 4:1
  • 15. S Deuteronomy 32:28; Isaiah 42:25; Isaiah 48:8; Hosea 4:6; Hosea 7:9
  • 16. Isaiah 5:18
  • 17. S ver 2; Isaiah 9:17; Isaiah 14:20; Isaiah 31:2; Jeremiah 23:14
  • 18. Psalms 14:3
  • 19. S Deuteronomy 32:15; S Psalms 119:87
  • 20. S 2 Kings 19:22; Isaiah 5:19,24; Isaiah 31:1; Isaiah 37:23; Isaiah 41:14; Isaiah 43:14; Isaiah 45:11; Isaiah 47:4; Ezekiel 39:7
  • 21. S Proverbs 30:9; Isaiah 59:13
  • 22. Proverbs 20:30
  • 23. Jeremiah 2:30; Jeremiah 5:3; Jeremiah 8:5
  • 24. S ver 2; Isaiah 31:6; Jeremiah 44:16-17; Hebrews 3:16
  • 25. Lamentations 2:11; Lamentations 5:17
  • 26. Isaiah 30:26; Isaiah 33:6,24; Isaiah 58:8; Jeremiah 30:17
  • 27. S Deuteronomy 28:35
  • 28. Psalms 38:3
  • 29. Isaiah 53:5
  • 30. S Psalms 147:3; Isaiah 30:26; Jeremiah 8:22; Jeremiah 14:19; Jeremiah 30:17; Lamentations 2:13; Ezekiel 34:4
  • 31. 2 Samuel 14:2; Psalms 23:5; Psalms 45:7; Psalms 104:15; Isaiah 61:3; Luke 10:34
  • 32. S Leviticus 26:34
  • 33. S Leviticus 26:31; S Deuteronomy 29:23
  • 34. Leviticus 26:16; Judges 6:3-6; Isaiah 62:8; Jeremiah 5:17
  • 35. S 2 Kings 18:13; S Psalms 109:11
  • 36. S Psalms 9:14; S Isaiah 10:32
  • 37. Isaiah 30:17; Isaiah 49:21
  • 38. S Job 27:18
  • 39. S Genesis 45:7; S 2 Kings 21:14; Isaiah 10:20-22; Isaiah 4:2; Isaiah 6:13; Isaiah 27:12; Isaiah 28:5; Isaiah 37:4,31-32; Isaiah 45:25; Isaiah 56:8; Jeremiah 23:3; Joel 2:32
  • 40. S Genesis 19:24; Romans 9:29*
  • 41. Isaiah 28:14
  • 42. S Genesis 13:13; S Genesis 18:20; Isaiah 3:9; Ezekiel 16:49; Romans 9:29; Revelation 11:8
  • 43. Isaiah 5:24; Isaiah 8:20; Isaiah 30:9
  • 44. Isaiah 13:19
  • 45. Psalms 50:8; Amos 6:4
  • 46. S Job 22:3
  • 47. Isaiah 66:3; Jeremiah 6:20
  • 48. 1 Samuel 15:22; S Psalms 40:6; Malachi 1:10; Hebrews 10:4
  • 49. Exodus 23:17; Deuteronomy 31:11
  • 50. Proverbs 15:8; Isaiah 66:3; Haggai 2:14
  • 51. Jeremiah 7:9; Jeremiah 18:15; Jeremiah 44:8
  • 52. S 1 Kings 14:24; Psalms 115:8; Proverbs 28:9; Isaiah 41:24; Malachi 2:11
  • 53. S Numbers 10:10
  • 54. 1 Chronicles 23:31
  • 55. S Nehemiah 10:33
  • 56. Exodus 12:16; Leviticus 23:1-44; Nu 28:11-29:39; Deuteronomy 16:1-17; Isaiah 5:12; Isaiah 29:1; Hosea 2:11
  • 57. S Psalms 11:5
  • 58. S Job 7:12
  • 59. Psalms 69:3; Isaiah 7:13; Isaiah 43:22,24; Jeremiah 44:22; Malachi 2:17; Malachi 3:14
  • 60. S Exodus 9:29
  • 61. S Deuteronomy 31:17; Isaiah 8:17; Isaiah 57:17; Isaiah 59:2; Micah 3:4
  • 62. S Deuteronomy 1:45; S 1 Samuel 8:18; S Job 15:31; S John 9:31
  • 63. S Job 9:30
  • 64. Isaiah 4:4; Isaiah 59:3; Jeremiah 2:34; Ezekiel 7:23; Hosea 4:2; Joel 3:21
  • 65. S Ruth 3:3; Matthew 27:24; James 4:8
  • 66. Numbers 19:11,16; Isaiah 52:11
  • 67. Isaiah 55:7; Jeremiah 25:5
  • 68. S Psalms 34:14
  • 69. S Psalms 72:1; Isaiah 11:4; Isaiah 33:5; Isaiah 56:1; Isaiah 61:8; Amos 5:14-15; Micah 6:8; Zephaniah 2:3
  • 70. S Deuteronomy 14:29
  • 71. ver 23; Job 22:9; Psalms 82:3; Psalms 94:6; Isaiah 10:2
  • 72. S Exodus 22:22; Ezekiel 18:31; Ezekiel 22:7; Luke 18:3; James 1:27
  • 73. S 1 Samuel 2:25; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 43:9,26
  • 74. S Psalms 51:7; Revelation 7:14
  • 75. Isaiah 55:7
  • 76. S Job 36:11; S Isaiah 50:10
  • 77. Deuteronomy 30:15-16; Ezra 9:12; Psalms 34:10; Isaiah 30:23; Isaiah 55:2; Isaiah 58:14; Isaiah 62:9; Isaiah 65:13,21-22
  • 78. S 1 Samuel 12:15
  • 79. S Job 15:22; Isaiah 3:25; Isaiah 27:1; Isaiah 65:12; Isaiah 66:16; Jeremiah 17:27
  • 80. Numbers 23:19; Isaiah 21:17; Isaiah 34:16; Isaiah 40:5; Isaiah 58:14; Jeremiah 49:13; Micah 4:4; Zechariah 1:6; Revelation 1:16
  • 81. Isaiah 57:3-9; Jeremiah 2:20; Jeremiah 3:2,9; Jeremiah 13:27; Ezekiel 23:3; Hosea 2:1-13
  • 82. Isaiah 5:7; Isaiah 46:13; Isaiah 59:14; Amos 6:12
  • 83. S Proverbs 6:17
  • 84. S Psalms 119:119
  • 85. S ver 2
  • 86. S Deuteronomy 19:14; Micah 2:1-2; Micah 6:12
  • 87. S Exodus 23:8; Amos 5:12
  • 88. Isaiah 10:2; Jeremiah 5:28; Ezekiel 22:6-7; Micah 3:9; Habakkuk 1:4; Zechariah 7:10
  • 89. S Genesis 49:24
  • 90. Isaiah 34:2,8; Isaiah 35:4; Isaiah 47:3; Isaiah 59:17; Isaiah 61:2; Isaiah 63:4; Jeremiah 51:6; Ezekiel 5:13
  • 91. S Deuteronomy 32:43; S Isaiah 10:3
  • 92. Deuteronomy 28:63
  • 93. S Psalms 78:38
  • 94. S Psalms 119:119
  • 95. 2 Chronicles 29:15; Isaiah 48:10; Jeremiah 6:29; Jeremiah 9:7; Ezekiel 22:22; Malachi 3:3
  • 96. Jeremiah 33:7,11; Micah 4:8
  • 97. S Genesis 32:28
  • 98. Isaiah 32:16; Isaiah 33:5; Isaiah 46:13; Isaiah 48:18; Isaiah 61:11; Isaiah 62:1; Jeremiah 31:23; Zechariah 8:3
  • 99. Isaiah 4:3; Isaiah 48:2; Isaiah 52:1; Isaiah 60:14; Isaiah 62:2; Isaiah 64:10; Daniel 9:24
  • 100. Isaiah 30:15; Isaiah 31:6; Isaiah 59:20; Ezekiel 18:30
  • 101. Isaiah 35:10; Isaiah 41:14; Isaiah 43:1; Isaiah 52:3; Isaiah 62:12; Isaiah 63:4; Hosea 2:19
  • 102. Isaiah 33:14; Isaiah 43:27; Isaiah 48:8; Isaiah 50:1; Isaiah 59:2; Jeremiah 4:18
  • 103. S Deuteronomy 32:15
  • 104. Psalms 9:5; Isaiah 24:20; Isaiah 66:24; Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 42:22; Jeremiah 44:12; 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9
  • 105. Psalms 97:7; Isaiah 42:17; Isaiah 44:9,11; Isaiah 45:16; Jeremiah 10:14
  • 106. Isaiah 57:5; Ezekiel 6:13; Hosea 4:13
  • 107. Isaiah 65:3; Isaiah 66:17
  • 108. S Psalms 1:3
  • 109. Isaiah 4:4; Isaiah 5:24; Isaiah 9:18-19; Isaiah 10:17; Isaiah 24:6; Isaiah 26:11; Isaiah 30:27,33; Isaiah 33:14; Malachi 4:10">3Malachi 4:10; Isaiah 66:15-16,24; Jeremiah 5:14; Jeremiah 7:20; Jeremiah 21:12; Obadiah 1:18; Malachi 3:2; Malachi 4:1; S Matthew 25:41

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Or "justice." / "Correct the oppressor"
  • [b]. That is, against Jerusalem

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