1The 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.2Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: Sons I have magnified and I have exalted, yet they have transgressed against me.3The ox knows its buyer, and the donkey knows the crib of its master; Israel does not know, my people do not understand.4Woe, sinning nation, people heavy with iniquity, seed of evildoers, sons who are ruining; they have forsaken the LORD, they have spurned the Holy One of Israel, they have turned backward.5Upon what are you still smitten that you add revolt? Every head is to sickness and every heart is faint.6From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wound and bruise and fresh wound; they were not pressed out, nor bound up, nor softened with oil.7Your land is devastation, your cities are burned with fire; your land-soil before you, strangers are eating it, and devastation like the overthrow of strangers.8And the daughter of Zion has remained like a booth in a vineyard, like a lodge in a cucumber field, like a watched city.9Unless the LORD of Hosts had caused a survivor to remain for us, like a little, we would have been like Sodom; we would have resembled Gomorrah.10Hear the word of the LORD, O chiefs of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, O people of Gomorrah.11To what is the abundance of your sacrifices to me? says the LORD; I am satisfied with burnt offerings of rams and fat of fatlings, and I have not delighted in the blood of bullocks and lambs and goats.12For you come to see my face; who sought this from your hand, to trample my court?13You shall not continue to bring a worthless offering; incense is an abomination to me; new moon and Sabbath, the calling of assembly—I cannot bear iniquity and solemn assembly.14Your months and your meetings my soul has hated; they have been a burden upon me; I am weary of lifting.15And in your spreading of your palms I conceal my eyes from you; also, though you multiply prayer, I am not hearing; your hands are filled with bloods.16Wash, be clean, remove evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to be evil.17Learn to be good, seek justice, bless the oppressed, judge the orphan, contend for the widow.18Come 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 become like wool.19If you are willing and you hear, the goodness of the land you shall eat.20And if you refuse and you rebel, sword you shall be eaten, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.21How she has become a fornicating town, the faithful city, full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.22Your silver has become dross; your liquor is diluted with water.23Your rulers are rebels and companions of thieves; each of them loves a bribe and pursues rewards; they do not defend the orphan, and the cause of the widow does not come before them.24Therefore the utterance of the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: "Woe, I will comfort myself from my enemies and I will avenge myself on my enemies."25And I will turn my hand against you; I will refine away your dross as with lye and remove all your tin.26And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. After this you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful town.27Zion shall be ransomed with justice, and her returners with righteousness.28But transgressors and sinners shall be broken together, and those who forsake the LORD shall come to an end.29For they shall be ashamed because of the terebinths that you desired, and you shall be ashamed because of the gardens that you chose.30For you shall be like an oak whose leaf withers, and like a garden that has no water.31And the strong shall become tow, and his work a spark, and they shall burn together with none to quench them.