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Judah's Rebellion and Call to Repentance

Isaiah 1:1-31

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1 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 heavens, and give ear, O land, for the LORD has spoken: "I have raised up sons and exalted them, but they have rebelled against me." 3 The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's manger; but Israel does not know, my people do not understand. 4 Alas, sinful nation, people weighed down with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, corrupting sons! They have abandoned the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they have turned away backward. 5 Why will you strike it again? Will you add rebellion? Every head is sick, and every heart is sick. 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it. Wound and welt and fresh stroke—they have not poured them out nor bound them up nor softened them with oil. 7 Your country is a desolation, your cities burned with fire, your fields—strangers devour them before your eyes, a desolation like an overthrow by foreigners. 8 She was left, daughter Zion, like a shelter in a vineyard, like a lodging in a cucumber field, like a city besieged. 9 Unless the LORD of hosts had left us a remnant, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah. 10 Hear the word of the LORD, princes of Sodom; give ear to the Torah of our God, people of Gomorrah. 11 "Why to me the multitude of your sacrifices?" says the LORD. "I am full of burnt offerings of rams and fat of fatlings and blood of bulls and lambs and goats—I do not desire them." 12 When you come to see the face of whom—this did he seek from your hand, trampling my courts? 13 Do not keep bringing worthless sacrifices; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath, calling a sacred convocation—I cannot bear iniquity and restraint. 14 Your new moons and your appointed times my soul hates; they have become a burden to me—I am weary to bear them! 15 When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even when you multiply prayer, I will not listen—your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash yourselves, purify yourselves. Remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil. 17 Learn to do well, seek justice, champion the oppressed, judge the orphan, plead the widow's case. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD. If your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; if they are red like crimson, they shall be like wool. 19 If you are willing and obey, you will eat the good of the land. 20 And if you refuse and rebel, you will eat the sword, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken. 21 How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers. 22 Your silver has become dross, your wine diluted with water. 23 Your officials are rebels and companions of thieves. All of them love bribery and pursue shalmonim. They do not judge the orphan, and the widow's dispute does not come to them. 24 Therefore, says the Lord GOD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah, I will be comforted concerning my oppressors, and I will be avenged on my enemies. 25 And I will turn my hand against you, and I will refine your dross like kabarit, and I will remove all your alloys. 26 And I will restore your judges as at the first and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City. 27 Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her captives with righteousness. 28 But he will shatter transgression and sinners together; those who forsake the LORD shall perish. 29 For they will be ashamed of the rams which you desired, and you will dig in the gardens which you chose. 30 For you will be like an oak whose leaf withers and like a garden that has no water. 31 And it will be: the strong one to a girl, and his work to a spark, and they will burn both of them together, and there is no extinguisher.