Isaiah 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.

and they have rebelled against me.

My people don’t consider.”

They are estranged and backward.

and the whole heart faint.

They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.

as overthrown by strangers.

like a besieged city.

We would have been like Gomorrah.

Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

or of male goats.

who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

I can’t stand evil assemblies.

I am weary of bearing them.

Your hands are full of blood.

Cease to do evil.

Plead for the widow.”

Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

you will eat the good of the land;

for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”

but now there are murderers.

your wine mixed with water.

neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

and avenge myself on my enemies.

and will take away all your tin.

a faithful town.’

and her converts with righteousness.

and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.

and as a garden that has no water.

and no one will quench them.”