1:1* The vision of Isaiah the son of Amos, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

1:2Hear, ye heavens, and give ear, thou earth! for Jehovah hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children; and they have rebelled against me.

1:3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; Israel doth not know, my people hath no intelligence.

1:4Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that corrupt themselves! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have despised the Holy One of Israel; they are turned away backward.

1:5Why should ye be smitten any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

1:6From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in him; wounds, and weals, and open sores: they have not been dressed, nor bound up, nor mollified with oil.

1:7Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers eat it up in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

1:8And the daughter of Zion is left, as a booth in a vineyard, as a night-lodge in a cucumber-garden, as a besieged city.

1:9Unless Jehovah of hosts had left us a very small residue, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

1:10Hear the word of Jehovah, rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, people of Gomorrah!

1:11To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith Jehovah. I am sated with burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and in the blood of bullocks, and of lambs, and of he-goats I take no pleasure.

1:12When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this from your hand -- to tread my courts?

1:13Bring no more vain oblations! Incense is an abomination unto me, -- new moon and sabbath, the calling of convocations -- wickedness and the solemn meeting I cannot bear.

1:14Your new moons and your set feasts my soul hateth: they are a burden to me; I am wearied of bearing them.

1:15And 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.

1:16Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; -- cease to do evil,

1:17learn to do well: seek judgment, gladden the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow.

1:18Come now, let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

1:19If ye be willing and hearken, ye shall eat the good of the land;

1:20but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.

1:21How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness used to lodge in it, but now murderers.

1:22Thy silver is become dross, thy wine is mixed with water:

1:23thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth presents, and hunteth after rewards; they judge not the fatherless, and the cause of the widow cometh not unto them.

1:24Therefore saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah! I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies.

1:25And I will turn my hand upon thee, and will thoroughly purge away thy dross, and take away all thine alloy;

1:26and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning. Afterwards thou shalt be called, Town of righteousness, Faithful city.

1:27Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and they that return of her with righteousness.

1:28But the ruin of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together; and they that forsake Jehovah shall be consumed.

1:29For they shall be ashamed of the terebinths that ye have desired, and ye shall blush for the gardens that ye have chosen.

1:30For ye shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

1:31And the strong shall be for tow, and his work a spark; and they shall both burn together, and there shall be none to quench them.

2:1The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

2:2* And it shall come to pass in the end of days, that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow unto it.

2:3And many peoples shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, 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 Jehovah's word from Jerusalem.

2:4And he shall judge among the nations, and shall reprove many peoples; and they shall forge their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

2:5House of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of Jehovah.

2:6For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with what comes from the east, and use auguries like the Philistines, and ally themselves with the children of foreigners.

2:7And their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no end of their treasures: their land also is full of horses, and there is no end of their chariots.

2:8And their land is full of idols; they bow themselves down to the work of their own hands, to that which their fingers have made.

2:9And the mean man shall be bowed down, and the great man shall be brought low: and do not thou forgive them!

2:10Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty.

2:11The lofty eyes of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.

2:12For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon everything proud and lofty, and upon everything lifted up, and it shall be brought low;

2:13and upon all the cedars of Lebanon, high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan;

2:14and upon all the lofty mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up;

2:15and upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall;

2:16and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant works of art.

2:17And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day:

2:18and the idols shall utterly pass away.

2:19And they shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to terrify the earth.

2:20In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made each for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

2:21to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the fissures of the cliffs, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to terrify the earth.

2:22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for what account is to be made of him?

3:1For behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

3:2the mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, and the diviner and the elder,

3:3the captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the clever among artificers, and the one versed in enchantments.

3:4And I will appoint youths as their princes, and children shall rule over them.

3:5And the people shall be oppressed one by the other, and each by his neighbour; the child will be insolent against the elder, and the base against the honourable.

3:6When a man shall take hold of his brother, in his father's house, and shall say: Thou hast clothing; be our chief, and let this ruin be under thy hand;

3:7he will lift up his hand in that day, saying, I cannot be a healer, and in my house there is neither bread nor clothing; ye shall not make me a chief of the people.

3:8For Jerusalem stumbleth and Judah falleth, because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

3:9The look of their face doth witness against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom: they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have brought evil upon themselves.

3:10Say ye of the righteous that it shall be well with him, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

3:11Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him, because the desert of his hands shall be rendered unto him.

3:12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people! they that guide thee mislead thee, and destroy the way of thy paths.

3:13Jehovah setteth himself to plead, and standeth to judge the peoples.

3:14Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their princes, saying: It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard: the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

3:15What mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the faces of the afflicted? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

3:16And Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-out neck and wanton eyes, and go along mincing, and making a tinkling with their feet;

3:17therefore the Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts.

3:18In that day the Lord will take away the ornament of anklets, and the little suns and crescents,

3:19the pearl-drops, and the bracelets, and the veils,

3:20the head-dresses, and the stepping chains, and the girdles, and the scent-boxes, and the amulets;

3:21the finger-rings, and the nose-rings;

3:22the festival-robes, and the tunics, and the mantles, and the wallets;

3:23the mirrors, and the fine linen bodices, and the turbans, and the flowing veils.

3:24And it shall come to pass, instead of perfume there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe of display, a girding of sackcloth; brand instead of beauty.

3:25Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the fight;

3:26and her gates shall lament and mourn; and, stripped, she shall sit upon the ground.