LEB ISA chapter 1

Rebellious Judah

2 and listen, earth,
- for Yahweh has spoken:

“I reared children
- and I brought them up,
  - but they rebelled against me.
- 3  and a donkey the manger of its master.
Israel does not know;
- my people do not understand.
- 4  a people heavy with iniquity,
offspring of evildoers,
- children who deal corruptly.
They have forsaken Yahweh;
- they have despised the holy one of Israel.
  - They are estranged and gone backward.
- 5  You continue in rebellion.
The whole of the head is sick,
- and the whole of the heart is faint.
- 6 the head there is no health in it;
bruise and sore and bleeding wound have not been cleansed,
- and they have not been bound up
- and not softened with the oil.
- 7 is desolate, your cities are burned with fire;
As for your land, aliens are devouring it in your presence,
- and it is desolate, like devastation by foreigners.
- 8  like a shelter in a cucumber field,
- like a city that is besieged.[fn]
- 9 [fn] we would have been as few as Sodom,
- we would have become like Gomorrah.
- 10  Listen to the teaching of our God, people of Gomorrah!
- 11 is the abundance of your sacrifices to me? says Yahweh. I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
  - and the fat of fattened animals
- and I do not delight in the blood of bulls
  - and ram-lambs and goats.
- 12  who asked for this from your hand:
- you trampling my courts?
- 13 [fn] to bring offerings[fn] of futility, incense—it is an abomination to me;
new moon and Sabbath, the calling of a convocation—
- I cannot endure iniquity with solemn assembly.
- 14  they have become to me like a burden,
- I am not able to bear them.
- 15  I will hide my eyes from you;
even though you make many prayers,[fn]
- I will not be listening.
Your hands are full of blood.
- 16  Remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes!
Cease to do evil!
- 17  Seek justice! Rescue the oppressed!
- Defend the orphan! Plead for the widow!
- 18  “Even though your sins are like scarlet, they will be white like snow;
- even though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
- 19  you shall eat the good of the land.

20 by the sword.For the mouth of Yahweh has spoken.”

Purifying Jerusalem

21 Full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
22 as dross; Your wine is diluted with waters.
23 are rebels and companions of thieves.

Every one loves a bribe
- and runs after gifts.
They do not defend the orphan
- and the legal dispute of the widow does not come before them.
24  “Ah, I will be relieved of my enemies,
- and I will avenge myself on my foes.
25  I will purify your dross like lye,
- and I will remove all of your tin.
- 26  and your counselors, as at the beginning.
After this[fn] the city of righteousness,
- faithful city.
- 27  and those of her who repent, by righteousness.
- 28 the destruction of rebels and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh will perish.
- 29 [fn] will be ashamed of the oaks in which you delighted, and you will be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen.
- 30  and like a garden where there is no water for her.
- 31 man shall become like tinder, and his work like a spark.
And both of them shall burn together,
- and there is not one to quench them.”

1:1 Or “preserved”

1:1 Hebrew “survivor”

1:1 Literally “increase” or “add to”

1:1 Hebrew “offering”

1:1 Hebrew “prayer”

1:1 Literally “it will be called for you”

1:1 Literally “they,” but a few manuscripts read “you,” which fits the context better

LEB ISA Chapter 1