{"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/drb/isaiah/1","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T09:00:13.509Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Isaiah","bookSlug":"isaiah","chapter":1,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":null,"nextChapter":2,"totalChapters":66,"totalVerses":31},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"THE vision of Isaias the son of Amos I which he saw concerning Juda and Jerusalem in the days of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have despised me. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no soundness therein: wounds and bruises and swelling sores: they are not bound up, nor dressed, nor fomented with oil. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your country strangers devour before your face, and it shall be desolate as when wasted by enemies. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in a vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and as a city that is laid waste. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrha. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts? "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination tome. The new moons, and the sabbaths, and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely, "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"if you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land. "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers. "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Thy silver is turned into dress: thy wine is mingled with water. "},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, the run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cometh not in to them. "},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Therefore saith the Lord the God of hosts, the mighty one of Israel: Ah! I will comfort myself over my adversaries: and I will be revenged of my enemies. "},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dress, and I will take away all thy tin. "},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"And I will restore thy judges se they were before, and thy counsellors as of old. After this thou shalt be called the city of the just, a faithful city. "},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring her back in justice. "},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and they that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed. "},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have chosen. "},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off, and as a garden without water. "},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a spark: and both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench it. 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