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Isaiah 1 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:1 - The vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

A Rebellious Nation

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:2 - Hear me, you heavens! Listen, earth! For the LORD has spoken: “I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:3 - The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner’s manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:4 - Woe to the sinful nation, a people whose guilt is great, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the LORD; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:5 - Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:6 - From the sole of your foot to the top of your head there is no soundness— only wounds and welts and open sores, not cleansed or bandaged or soothed with olive oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 - Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:8 - Daughter Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a city under siege.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:9 - Unless the LORD Almighty had left us some survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:10 - Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:11 - “The multitude of your sacrifices— what are they to me?” says the LORD. “I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:12 - When you come to appear before me, who has asked this of you, this trampling of my courts?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:13 - Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations— I cannot bear your worthless assemblies.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:14 - Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals I hate with all my being. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:15 - When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:16 - Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:17 - Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed.[fn] Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:18 - “Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:19 - If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:20 - but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.”

For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:21 - See how the faithful city has become a prostitute! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her— but now murderers!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:22 - Your silver has become dross, your choice wine is diluted with water.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:23 - Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:24 - Therefore the Lord, the LORD Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: “Ah! I will vent my wrath on my foes and avenge myself on my enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:25 - I will turn my hand against you;[fn] I will thoroughly purge away your dross and remove all your impurities.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:26 - I will restore your leaders as in days of old, your rulers as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:27 - Zion will be delivered with justice, her penitent ones with righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:28 - But rebels and sinners will both be broken, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:29 - “You will be ashamed because of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:30 - You will be like an oak with fading leaves, like a garden without water.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:31 - The mighty man will become tinder and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the fire.”
NIV Footnotes
Or justice. / Correct the oppressor
That is, against Jerusalem
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