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1 The vision of Isaias the Son of Amos, which he saw concerning Juda and Jerusalem in the days of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda.
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The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
2 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.
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Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.
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The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.
4 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.
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Ah, sinful nation, people laden with iniquity, offspring who do evil, children who deal corruptly, who have forsaken the Lord, who have despised the Holy One of Israel, who are utterly estranged!
5 For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.
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Why do you seek further beatings? Why do you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6 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.
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From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and bleeding wounds; they have not been drained, or bound up, or softened with oil.
7 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.
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Your country lies desolate, your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence aliens devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.
8 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.
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And daughter Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a shelter in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.
9 Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrha.
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If the Lord of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we would have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.
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Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
11 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.
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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 fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.
12 When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?
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When you come to appear before me, who asked this from your hand? Trample my courts no more;
13 Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, and the sabbaths and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.
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bringing offerings is futile; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and sabbath and calling of convocation— I cannot endure solemn assemblies with iniquity.
14 My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.
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Your new moons and your appointed festivals my soul hates; they have become a burden to me, I am weary of bearing them.
15 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.
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When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes, cease to do perversely,
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Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil,
17 Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.
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learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.
18 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.
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Come now, let us argue it out, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be like snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
19 If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.
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If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;
20 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.
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but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
21 How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.
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How the faithful city has become a whore! She that was full of justice, righteousness lodged in her— but now murderers!
22 Thy silver is turned into dross: thy wine is mingled with water.
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Your silver has become dross, your wine is mixed with water.
23 Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow’s cause cometh not in to them.
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Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the orphan, and the widow's cause does not come before them.
24 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.
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Therefore says the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah, I will pour out my wrath on my enemies, and avenge myself on my foes!
25 And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dross, and I will take away all thy tin.
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I will turn my hand against you; I will smelt away your dross as with lye and remove all your alloy.
26 And I will restore thy judges as they were before, and thy counsellors as of old. After this thou shalt be called the city of the just, a faithful city.
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And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.
27 Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring her back in justice.
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Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who repent, by righteousness.
28 And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and they that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed.
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But rebels and sinners shall be destroyed together, and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
29 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.
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For you shall be ashamed of the oaks in which you delighted; and you shall blush for the gardens that you have chosen.
30 When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off, and as a garden without water.
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For you shall be like an oak whose leaf withers, and like a garden without water.
31 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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The strong shall become like tinder, and their work like a spark; they and their work shall burn together, with no one to quench them.
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