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| The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw
concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and
Hezekiah, kings of Judah. |
| Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD
hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have
rebelled against me. |
| The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's
crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. |
| Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a
seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the
LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are
gone away backward. |
| Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt
more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. |
| From the sole of the foot even unto the head there
is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores:
they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with
ointment. |
| Your country is desolate, your cities are burned
with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is
desolate, as overthrown by strangers. |
| And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a
vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. |
| Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very
small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been
like unto Gomorrah. |
| Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give
ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. |
| To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices
unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and
the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of
lambs, or of he goats. |
| When ye come to appear before me, who hath required
this at your hand, to tread my courts? |
| Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an
abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of
assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. |
| Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul
hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. |
| And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide
mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear:
your hands are full of blood. |
| Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your
doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; |
| Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the
oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. |
| Come now, and let us reason together, saith the
LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. |
| If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good
of the land: |
| But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured
with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. |
| How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was
full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. |
| Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with
water: |
| Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of
thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge
not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. |
| Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the
mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge
me of mine enemies: |
| And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge
away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: |
| And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and
thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The
city of righteousness, the faithful city. |
| Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her
converts with righteousness. |
| And the destruction of the transgressors and of the
sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be
consumed. |
| For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have
desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. |
| For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as
a garden that hath no water. |
| And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it
as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench
them. |
| The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning
Judah and Jerusalem. |
| And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the
mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the
mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall
flow unto it. |
| And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let
us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob;
and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out
of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. |
| And he shall judge among the nations, and shall
rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. |
| O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the
light of the LORD. |
| Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of
Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers
like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of
strangers. |
| Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither
is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses,
neither is there any end of their chariots: |
| Their land also is full of idols; they worship the
work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: |
| And the mean man boweth down, and the great man
humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not. |
| Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for
fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. |
| The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the
haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be
exalted in that day. |
| For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every
one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and
he shall be brought low: |
| And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high
and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, |
| And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the
hills that are lifted up, |
| And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced
wall, |
| And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all
pleasant pictures. |
| And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and
the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be
exalted in that day. |
| And the idols he shall utterly abolish. |
| And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and
into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of
his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. |
| In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver,
and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship,
to the moles and to the bats; |
| To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the
tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his
majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. |
| Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils:
for wherein is he to be accounted of? |
| For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take
away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole
stay of bread, and the whole stay of water. |
| The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and
the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, |
| The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and
the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. |
| And I will give children to be their princes, and
babes shall rule over them. |
| And the people shall be oppressed, every one by
another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself
proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable. |
| When a man shall take hold of his brother of the
house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and
let this ruin be under thy hand: |
| In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an
healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a
ruler of the people. |
| For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen:
because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke
the eyes of his glory. |
| The show of their countenance doth witness against
them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto
their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. |
| Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with
him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. |
| Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for
the reward of his hands shall be given him. |
| As for my people, children are their oppressors, and
women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to
err, and destroy the way of thy paths. |
| The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge
the people. |
| The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients
of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the
vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses. |
| What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and
grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts. |
| Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of
Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes,
walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: |
| Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown
of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their
secret parts. |
| In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of
their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their
round tires like the moon, |
| The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, |
| The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the
headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, |
| The rings, and nose jewels, |
| The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles,
and the wimples, and the crisping pins, |
| The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and
the veils. |
| And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet
smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead
of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of
sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty. |
| Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in
the war. |
| And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being
desolate shall sit upon the ground. |
| And in that day seven women shall take hold of one
man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only
let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach. |
| In that day shall the branch of the LORD be
beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent
and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. |
| And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in
Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even
every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: |
| When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of
the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from
the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of
burning. |
| And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place
of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and
the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be
a defence. |
| And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the
daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from
storm and from rain. |
| Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my
beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very
fruitful hill: |
| And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones
thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the
midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it
should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. |
| And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of
Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. |
| What could have been done more to my vineyard, that
I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring
forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? |
| And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my
vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up;
and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: |
| And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor
digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command
the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. |
| For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house
of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for
judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry. |
| Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay
field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in
the midst of the earth! |
| In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many
houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. |
| Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and
the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah. |
| Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning,
that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine
inflame them! |
| And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe,
and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD,
neither consider the operation of his hands. |
| Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because
they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their
multitude dried up with thirst. |
| Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her
mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their
pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. |
| And the mean man shall be brought down, and the
mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled: |
| But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment,
and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness. |
| Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and
the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. |
| Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of
vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: |
| That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work,
that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw
nigh and come, that we may know it! |
| Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil;
that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for
sweet, and sweet for bitter! |
| Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and
prudent in their own sight! |
| Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men
of strength to mingle strong drink: |
| Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away
the righteousness of the righteous from him! |
| Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the
flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and
their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law
of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. |
| Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against
his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath
smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in
the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but
his hand is stretched out still. |
| And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from
far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold,
they shall come with speed swiftly: |
| None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none
shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be
loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: |
| Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent,
their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a
whirlwind. |
| Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar
like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and
shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it. |
| And in that day they shall roar against them like
the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness
and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof. |
| In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the
Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the
temple. |
| Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six
wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his
feet, and with twain he did fly. |
| And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy,
holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. |
| And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him
that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. |
| Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I
am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of
unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. |
| Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a
live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the
altar: |
| And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this
hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin
purged. |
| Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom
shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. |
| And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye
indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. |
| Make the heart of this people fat, and make their
ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear
with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be
healed. |
| Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until
the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and
the land be utterly desolate, |
| And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be
a great forsaking in the midst of the land. |
| But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return,
and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in
them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the
substance thereof. |
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