Isaias

I. 1 The vision which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the reign of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, who ’over Judah.

2 Hear, O heaven, and give ear, earth; for the Lord hath spoken, I have begotten sons and upraised them, but they have set me at nought.

3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his ’s crib: but Israel knoweth me not, and the people understandeth me not.

4 Ah, sinful nation, a people full of sins, an evil seed, lawless sons: ye have forsaken the Lord, and angered the Holy One of Israel.

5 Why should ye be yet smitten, (for) transgressing further? every head (turns) to weariness, and every heart to grief.

6 From the feet to the head, neither wound, nor stripe, nor inflamed hurt: there is no means to apply a balm, or oil, or bandages.

7 Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire; your country, strangers devour it before your face, and it has been desolated, ruined by stranger peoples.

8 The daughter of Zion shall be left like a booth in avineyard, and like a watching-hut in a cucumber garden, like a city besieged.

9 And unless the Lord of Hosts had left us a seed there, we should have become as Sodom, and we should have been made like as Gomorrah.

10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; attend ye to the law of God, people of Gomorrah.

11 What is the abundance of your sacrifices to me? saith the Lord: I am full of burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of lambs, and the blood of bulls and of goats I desire not,