Isaiah 1 - UPDV Updated Bible Version

^1:1 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.
^1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for Yahweh has spoken: I have nourished and brought up sons, and they have rebelled against me.
^1:3 The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; [but] Israel does not know, my people do not consider.
^1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged backward.
^1:5 Why will you⁺ be still stricken, that you⁺ revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
^1:6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes: they haven't been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil.
^1:7 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.
^1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
^1:9 Except Yahweh of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like Gomorrah.
^1:10 Hear the word of Yahweh, you⁺ rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, you⁺ people of Gomorrah.
^1:11 What to me is the multitude of your⁺ sacrifices? says Yahweh: I have had enough of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I do not delight in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
^1:12 When you⁺ come to see my face, who has required this at your⁺ hand, to trample my courts?
^1:13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is disgusting to me; new moon and Sabbath, the calling of assemblies--I can't endure evil and the solemn meeting.
^1:14 Your⁺ new moons and your⁺ appointed feasts my soul hates; they are a trouble to me; I am weary of bearing them.
^1:15 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.
^1:16 Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your⁺ doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;
^1:17 learn to do well; seek justice, correct oppression, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
^1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, says Yahweh: though your⁺ sins be as scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they will be as wool.
^1:19 If you⁺ are willing and obedient, you⁺ will eat the good of the land:
^1:20 but if you⁺ refuse and rebel, you⁺ will be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.
^1:21 How has the faithful city become a prostitute! She that was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
^1:22 Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.
^1:23 Your princes are rebellious, and partners of thieves; everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards: they do not judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
^1:24 Therefore says the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease myself of my adversaries, and avenge myself of my enemies;
^1:25 and I will turn my hand on you, and thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin;
^1:26 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, a faithful town.
^1:27 Zion will be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.
^1:28 But the destruction of transgressors and sinners will be together, and those who forsake Yahweh will be consumed.
^1:29 For they will be ashamed of the oaks which you⁺ have desired, and you⁺ will be confounded for the gardens that you⁺ have chosen.
^1:30 For you⁺ will be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.
^1:31 And the strong will be as flax, and his work as a spark; and they will both burn together, and none will quench them.

Isaiah, Chapter 1