{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/isaiah/1","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T02:10:25.736Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Isaiah","bookSlug":"isaiah","chapter":1,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":null,"nextChapter":2,"totalChapters":66,"totalVerses":31},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"The vision of Isaiah the son of Amos, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Hear, ye heavens, and give ear, thou earth! for Jehovah hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children; and they have rebelled against me."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; Israel doth not know, my people hath no intelligence."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that corrupt themselves! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have despised the Holy One of Israel; they are turned away backward."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Why should ye be smitten any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in him; wounds, and weals, and open sores: they have not been dressed, nor bound up, nor mollified with oil."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers eat it up in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And the daughter of Zion is left, as a booth in a vineyard, as a night-lodge in a cucumber-garden, as a besieged city."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Unless Jehovah of hosts had left us a very small residue, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Hear the word of Jehovah, rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, people of Gomorrah!"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith Jehovah. I am sated with burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and in the blood of bullocks, and of lambs, and of he-goats I take no pleasure."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this from your hand to tread my courts?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Bring no more vain oblations! Incense is an abomination unto me, new moon and sabbath, the calling of convocations wickedness and the solemn meeting I cannot bear."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Your new moons and your set feasts my soul hateth: they are a burden to me; I am wearied of bearing them."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil,"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"learn to do well: seek judgment, gladden the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Come now, let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"If ye be willing and hearken, ye shall eat the good of the land;"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness used to lodge in it, but now murderers."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Thy silver is become dross, thy wine is mixed with water:"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth presents, and hunteth after rewards; they judge not the fatherless, and the cause of the widow cometh not unto them."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Therefore saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah! I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"And I will turn my hand upon thee, and will thoroughly purge away thy dross, and take away all thine alloy;"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning. Afterwards thou shalt be called, Town of righteousness, Faithful city."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and they that return of her with righteousness."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"But the ruin of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together; and they that forsake Jehovah shall be consumed."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"For they shall be ashamed of the terebinths that ye have desired, and ye shall blush for the gardens that ye have chosen."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"For ye shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"And the strong shall be for tow, and his work a spark; and they shall both burn together, and there shall be none to quench them."}],"citation":{"inline":"Isaiah 1 (DBT)","markdown":"[Isaiah 1](https://primebible.com/dbt/isaiah/1)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/isaiah/1 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}