Isaiah 1:2-20 - Rebellious Judah

² Hear, ye heavens, and give ear thou earth, for Jehovah spake: for I caused to grow and lifted up sons, and they rebelled against me. ³ . The ox knew his possessor, and the ass his lord's stall: Israel knew not; my people understood not

⁴ Wo! sinful nation, a people heavy with sin, a seed doing evil, sons acting wickedly; they forsook Jehovah; they despised the holy one of Israel; they separated themselves backward.

⁵ For what shall ye be yet struck? will ye add apostasy? every head for sickness, and every heart sick ⁶ From the sole of the foot and even to the head, no wholeness in it; a wound and bruise, and a fresh blow: they were not pressed out, and they were not bound up, and they were not softened with oil.

⁷ Your land made desolate, your cities burnt with fire, your land before your strangers eating it up, and made desolate, as the overthrow of strangers. ⁸ And the daughter of Zion was left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a field of cucumbers, as a city besieged. ⁹ Unless Jehovah of armies left to us an escaping so small, we were as Sodom and we were made like to Gomorrah.

¹⁰ Hear the word of Jehovah, ye leaders of Sodom: give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. ¹¹ For what to me the multitude of your sacrifices? Jehovah will say: I was filled with the burnt-offerings of rams and the fat of fatlings; and I delighted not in the blood of bullocks, and of he lambs and of he goats. ¹² When ye shall come to be seen before me who sought this from your hand to tread my enclosure. ¹³ Ye shall not add to bring gifts of iniquity; incense, this an abomination to me; the new moon and the Sabbath, the calling of the assembly; I shall not be able to bear vanity and restraining. ¹⁴ Your new moons and your appointments my soul hated; they were for a burden upon me; I was wearied to lift up. ¹⁵ And in the spreading forth of your hands I will hide mine eyes from you.; also when ye shall multiply prayer I hear not: your hands were full of blood.

¹⁶ Wash ye, cleanse yourselves: turn away evil from your doings from before mine eyes; leave off the evil; ¹⁷ Learn to do good; seek out judgment, lead right the oppressor, judge the orphan, contend for the widow.

¹⁸ Come now we will confute together Jehovah will say: if your sins shall be as deep scarlet, they shall be white as snow; if they shall be red as crimson, they shall be as wool. ¹⁹ If ye shall be willing and hear, ye shall eat the good of the land. ²⁰ And if ye shall refuse and rebel, ye shall be eaten by the sword: for the mouth of Jehovah spake.