| 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. |
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א. |
| 2. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord has spoken; Children I have raised and exalted, yet they have rebelled against Me. |
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ב. |
| 3. An ox knows his owner and a donkey his master's crib; Israel does not know, my people does not consider. |
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ג. |
| 4. Woe to a sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, evildoing seed, corrupt children. They forsook the Lord; they provoked the Holy One of Israel; they drew backwards. |
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ד. |
| 5. Why are you beaten when you still continue to rebel? Every head is [afflicted] with illness and every heart with malaise. |
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ה. |
| 6. From the sole of the foot until the head there is no soundness-wounds and contusions and lacerated sores; they have not sprinkled, neither have they been bandaged, nor was it softened with oil. |
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ו. |
| 7. Your land is desolate; your cities burnt with fire. Your land-in your presence, strangers devour it; and it is desolate as that turned over to strangers. |
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ז. |
| 8. And the daughter of Zion shall be left like a hut in a vineyard, like a lodge in a cucumber field, like a besieged city. |
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ח. |
| 9. "Had not the Lord of Hosts left us a remnant, we would soon be like Sodom; we would resemble Gomorrah." |
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ט. |
| 10. Hear the word of the Lord, O rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, O people of Gomorrah! |
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| 11. Of what use are your many sacrifices to Me? says the Lord. I am sated with the burnt-offerings of rams and the fat of fattened cattle; and the blood of bulls and sheep and hegoats I do not want. |
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יא. |
| 12. When you come to appear before Me, who requested this of you, to trample My courts? |
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יב. |
| 13. You shall no longer bring vain meal-offerings, it is smoke of abomination to Me; New Moons and Sabbaths, calling convocations, I cannot [bear] iniquity with assembly. |
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יג. |
| 14. Your New Moons and your appointed seasons My soul hates, they are a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing [them]. |
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יד. |
| 15. And when you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you, even when you pray at length, I do not hear; your hands are full of blood. |
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טו. |
| 16. Wash, cleanse yourselves, remove the evil of your deeds from before My eyes, cease to do evil. |
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טז. |
| 17. Learn to do good, seek justice, strengthen the robbed, perform justice for the orphan, plead the case of the widow. |
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יז. |
| 18. Come now, let us debate, says the Lord. If your sins prove to be like crimson, they will become white as snow; if they prove to be as red as crimson dye, they shall become as wool. |
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יח. |
| 19. If you be willing and obey, you shall eat the best of the land. |
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יט. |
| 20. But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword, for the mouth of the Lord spoke. |
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כ. |
| 21. How has she become a harlot, a faithful city; full of justice, in which righteousness would lodge, but now murderers. |
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כא. |
| 22. Your silver has become dross; your wine is diluted with water. |
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כב. |
| 23. Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves; everyone loves bribes and runs after payments; the orphan they do not judge, and the quarrel of the widow does not come to them. |
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כג. |
| 24. "Therefore," says the Master, the Lord of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, "Oh, I will console Myself from My adversaries, and I will avenge Myself of My foes. |
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כד. |
| 25. And I will return My hand upon you and purge away your dross as with lye, and remove all your tin. |
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כה. |
| 26. And I will restore your judges as at first and your counsellors as in the beginning; afterwards you shall be called City of Righteousness, Faithful City. |
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כו. |
| 27. Zion shall be redeemed through justice and her penitent through righteousness. |
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כז. |
| 28. And destruction shall come over rebels and sinners together, and those who forsake the Lord shall perish. |
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כח. |
| 29. For they shall be ashamed of the elms that you desired, and you shall be humiliated because of the gardens that you chose. |
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כט. |
| 30. For you shall be like an elm whose leaves are wilting, and like a garden that has no water. |
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ל. |
| 31. And the[ir] strength shall become as tow, and its perpetrator as a spark, and both of them shall burn together, with no one to extinguish [the fire]. |
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לא. |
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