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Isaiah 1 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:1 - The vision which Esaias the son of Amos saw, which he saw against Juda and against Jerusalem, in the reign of Ozias, and Joatham, and Achaz, and Ezekias, who reigned over Judea.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:2 - Hear, O heaven, and hearken, O earth: for the Lord has spoken, saying, I have begotten and reared up children, but they have [fn]rebelled against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:3 - The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel does not know me, and the people has not regarded me.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:4 - Ah sinful nation, a people full of sins, an evil seed, lawless children: ye have forsaken the Lord, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:5 - Why should ye be smitten any more, transgressing more and more? the whole head is pained, and the whole heart sad.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:6 - From the feet to the head, there is no soundness in them; neither wound, nor bruise, nor festering ulcer are healed: it is not possible to apply a plaister, nor oil, nor bandages.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 - Your land is desolate, your cities burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is made desolate, overthrown by strange nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:8 - The daughter of Sion shall be deserted as a tent in a vineyard, and as a storehouse of fruits in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:9 - [fn] And if the Lord of Sabaoth had not left us a seed, we should have been as Sodoma, and we should have been made like to Gomorrha.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:10 - Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodoma; attend to the law of God, thou people of Gomorrha.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:11 - Of what value to me is the abundance of your sacrifices? saith the Lord: I am full of whole-burnt-offerings of rams; and I delight not in the fat of lambs, and the blood of bulls and goats:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:12 - neither shall ye come with these to appear before me; for who has required these things at your hands? Ye shall no more tread my court.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:13 - Though ye bring fine flour, it is vain; incense is an abomination to me; I cannot bear your new moons, and your sabbaths, and the great day;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:14 - your fasting, and rest from work, your new moons also, and your feasts my soul hates: ye have become loathsome to me; I will no more pardon your sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:15 - When ye stretch forth your hands, I will turn away mine eyes from you: and though ye make many supplications, I will not hearken to you; for your hands are full of blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:16 - Wash you, be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before mine eyes; cease from your iniquities;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:17 - learn to do well; diligently seek judgment, deliver him that is suffering wrong, plead for the orphan, and obtain justice for the widow.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:18 - And come, let us reason together, saith the Lord: and though your sins be as purple, I will make them white as snow; and though they be as scarlet, I will make them white as wool.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:19 - And if ye be willing, and hearken to me, ye shall eat the good of the land:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:20 - but if ye be not willing, nor hearken to me, a sword shall devour you: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:21 - How has the faithful city Sion, once full of judgment, become a harlot! wherein righteousness lodged, but now murderers.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:22 - Your silver is worthless, thy wine merchants mix the wine with water.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:23 - Thy princes are rebellious, companions of thieves, loving bribes, seeking after rewards; not pleading for orphans, and not heeding the cause of widows.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:24 - Therefore thus saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, Woe to the mighty men of Israel; for my wrath shall not cease against mine adversaries, and I will execute judgment on mine enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:25 - And I will bring my hand upon thee, and purge thee [fn]completely, and I will destroy the rebellious, and will take away from thee all transgressors.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:26 - And I will establish thy judges as before, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: and afterward thou shalt be called the city of righteousness, the faithful mother-city Sion.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:27 - For her captives shall be saved with judgment, and with mercy.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:28 - And the transgressors and the sinners shall be crushed together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be utterly consumed.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:29 - For they shall be ashamed of their idols, which they delighted in, and they are made ashamed of the gardens which they coveted.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:30 - For they shall be as a turpentine tree that has cast its leaves, and as a garden that has no water.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:31 - And their strength shall be as a thread of tow, and their works as sparks, and the transgressors and the sinners shall be burnt up together, and there shall be none to quench them.
BES Footnotes
Or, 'set me at nought.'
Rom. 9:29.
Gr. to pureness.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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