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Isaiah 1 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:1 - The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he saw about Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:2 - Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:3 - Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:4 - O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:5 - Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:6 - The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 - Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:8 - And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman's house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:9 - If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours.

God Has Had Enough

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:10 - Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:11 - What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:12 - At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:13 - Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:14 - Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:15 - And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:16 - Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:17 - Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.

"Let Us Reason"

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:18 - Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:19 - If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:20 - But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said.

Zion Corrupted, to Be Redeemed

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:21 - The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:22 - Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:23 - Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:24 - For this reason the Lord, the Lord of armies, the Strong One of Israel, has said, I will put an end to my haters, and send punishment on those who are against me;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:25 - And my hand will again be on you, washing away what is unclean as with soap, and taking away all your false metal;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:26 - And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:27 - Upright acts will be the price of Zion's forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:28 - But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:29 - For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:30 - For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:31 - And the strong will be as food for the fire, and his work as a flame; and they will be burned together, with no one to put out the fire.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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