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I Isaiah Chapter 1:1-26
Isa 1:1 The vision of Yeshayahu son of Amots, which he saw concerning Yehuḏah and Yerushalayim in the days of
Uzziyahu, Yotham, Aḥaz, Ḥizqiyahu – sovereigns of Yehuḏah.
Isa 1:2 Hear, O heavens, and
listen, O earth! For יהוה has spoken, “I have reared and brought up children, but they have
transgressed against Me.
Isa 1:3 An ox knows its owner and a donkey its master’s crib – Yisra’ĕl
does not know, My people have not understood.”
Isa 1:4 Alas, sinning nation, a people loaded with crookedness,
a seed of evil-doers, sons acting corruptly! They have forsaken יהוה, they have provoked the Set-apart
One of Yisra’ĕl, they went backward.
Isa 1:5 Why should you be beaten any more? You continue in apostasy!
All the head is sick, and all the heart faints.
Isa 1:6 From the sole of the foot, to the head, there is no soundness
in it – wounds and bruises and open sores; they have not been closed or bound up, or soothed with ointment.
Isa
1:7 Your land is laid waste, your cities are burned with fire, strangers devour your land in your presence. And it is
laid waste, as overthrown by strangers.
Isa 1:8 And the daughter of Tsiyon is left as a booth in a vineyard, as
a hut in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Isa 1:9 Unless יהוה of hosts had left
to us a small remnant, we would have become like Seḏom, we would have been made like Amorah.
Isa 1:10 Hear
the word of יהוה, you rulers of Seḏom; give ear to the Torah of our Elohim, you people of Amorah!
Isa 1:11 “Of what use to Me are your many slaughterings?” declares יהוה. “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 goats.
Isa 1:12 “When you come to appear before Me, who has required this from your hand, to trample
My courtyards?
Isa 1:13 “Stop bringing futile offerings, incense, it is an abomination to Me. New Moons,
Sabbaths, the calling of meetings – I am unable to bear unrighteousness and assembly.
Isa 1:14 “My
being hates your New Moons and your appointed times, they are a trouble to Me, I am weary of bearing them.
Isa 1:15
“And when you spread out your hands, I hide My eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I do not hear. Your
hands have become filled with blood.
Isa 1:16 “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil
of your doings from before My eyes. Stop doing evil!
Isa 1:17 “Learn to do good! Seek right-ruling, reprove
the oppressor, defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Isa 1:18 “Come now, and let us reason together,”
says יהוה. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are
red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isa 1:19 “If you submit and obey, you shall eat the good of the
land;
Isa 1:20 but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword,” for the mouth of יהוה
has spoken.
Isa 1:21 How the steadfast city has become a whore! I have filled it with right-ruling; righteousness
lodged in it, but now murderers.
Isa 1:22 Your silver has become dross, your wine is mixed with water.
Isa
1:23 Your rulers are stubborn, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and runs after rewards. They do not
defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow reach them.
Isa 1:24 Therefore the Master declares, יהוה
of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, “Ah, I shall be eased of My adversaries, and I shall be avenged of My enemies.
Isa 1:25 “And I shall turn My hand against you, and shall refine your dross as with lye, and shall remove
all your alloy.
Isa 1:26 “And I shall give back your judges as at the first, and your counsellors as at
the beginning. After this you shall be called the city of righteousness, a steadfast city.”
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