1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the
days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, andHezekiah, kings of Judah.
2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought
up children, and they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: butIsrael doth not know, my people
doth not consider.
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 unto anger,
they are gone away backward.
5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick,
and the whole heart faint.
6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there isno soundness in it; butwounds, and
bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified
with ointment.
7 Your country isdesolate, your cities areburned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in
your presence, and it isdesolate, as overthrown by strangers.
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.
9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as
Sodom, andwe should have been like unto Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of
Gomorrah.
11 To what purpose isthe multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith 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.
12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and
sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it isiniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am
weary to bear them.
15 And 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.
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to
do evil;
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the
widow.
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith 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.
19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD
hath spoken it.
21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in
it; but now murderers.
22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
23 Thy princes arerebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth
after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto
them.
24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of
mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:

25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy
tin:
26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning:
afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall betogether, and they that
forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for
the gardens that ye have chosen.
30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn
together, and none shall quench them.
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, thatthe mountain of the LORD'S house shall be
established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations
shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, 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 the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their
swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from
the east, and aresoothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of
strangers.
7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there anyend of their treasures; their
land is also full of horses, neither is there anyend of their chariots:
8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their
own fingers have made:
9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them
not.
10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his
majesty.
11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down,
and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall beupon every one that isproud and lofty, and upon
every one that islifted up; and he shall be brought low:
13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that arehigh and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of
Bashan,
14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that arelifted up,
15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made
low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the
LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each

onefor himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the
LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
22 Cease ye from man, whose breath isin his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
1 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the
stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the
ancient,
3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer,
and the eloquent orator.
4 And I will give children to betheir princes, and babes shall rule over them.
5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the
child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast
clothing, be thou our ruler, and letthis ruin beunder thy hand:
7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house isneither bread nor
clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings areagainst
the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as
Sodom, they hide itnot. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall bewell with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their
doings.
11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall beill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
12 As formy people, children aretheir oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people,
they which lead thee cause theeto err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof:
for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor isin your houses.
15 What mean ye thatye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the
Lord GOD of hosts.
16 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with
stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing asthey go, and making a tinkling
with their feet:
17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion,
and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of theirtinkling ornaments about their feet,
and theircauls, and theirround tires like the moon,
19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the
earrings,
21 The rings, and nose jewels,
22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
24 And it shall come to pass, thatinstead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a
girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of
sackcloth; andburning instead of beauty.
25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she beingdesolate shall sit upon the ground.