1 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. Compare verse10 commentaries
2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. Compare verse6 commentaries
3 The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people does not consider. Compare verse23 commentaries
4 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 to anger, they are gone away backward. Compare verse5 commentaries
5 Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. Compare verse3 commentaries
6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. Compare verse6 commentaries
7 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. Compare verse7 commentaries
8 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. Compare verse7 commentaries
9 Except the LORD of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrah. Compare verse6 commentaries
10 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah. Compare verse1 commentary
11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? said 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. Compare verse4 commentaries
12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to tread my courts? Compare verse5 commentaries
13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination to me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Compare verse7 commentaries
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble to me; I am weary to bear them. Compare verse4 commentaries
15 And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. Compare verse5 commentaries
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil; Compare verse11 commentaries
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Compare verse5 commentaries
18 Come now, and let us reason together, said 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. Compare verse13 commentaries
23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them. Compare verse2 commentaries
24 Therefore said the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of my adversaries, and avenge me of my enemies: Compare verse2 commentaries
25 And I will turn my hand on you, and purely purge away your dross, and take away all your tin: Compare verse5 commentaries
26 And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counsellors as at the beginning: afterward you shall be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city. Compare verse5 commentaries
27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. Compare verse1 commentary
28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed. Compare verse2 commentaries
29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen. Compare verse1 commentary
30 For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water. Compare verse2 commentaries
31 And the strong shall be as wick, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them. Compare verse1 commentary