(1:10) [Prophetic visions of Isaiah, son of Amoz, about Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah]
(0:19) THE WICKEDNESS OF JUDAH (0:52) Listen, O heavens, pay attention, O earth! For the Lord speaks: “I raised children, I brought them up, but they have rebelled against me! An ox recognizes its owner, but Israel does not recognize me, my people do not understand.”
(1:58) O nation full of sin, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from Him.
(2:48) Why do you insist on being battered? Why do you continue to rebel? Your head has a massive wound, your whole body is weak. It’s a mass of open wounds and no🫒oil has been put on them.
(3:11) Your land is devastated, your cities burned with fire. Right before your eyes your crops are being destroyed by foreign invaders. They leave behind devastation and destruction.
Your country has become waste, burned and overcome (3:39) Daughter Zion is now like a watchman's shelter in a cucumber field, a town shut in by armies. (3:55) If the Lord had not kept some of us safe, our fate would have been that of Sodom & Gomorrah (4:21).
“Of what importance to me are your many sacrifices?” says the Lord. (4:39) "I am stuffed with burnt sacrifices of rams and the fat from steers (0:00) What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? (5:04) I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats. Do you think I want animals trampling on my courtyards?
(5:27) I cannot tolerate sin-stained celebrations! Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings. They are a crushing burden on My spirit (5:48).
(6:01) When you spread out your hands in prayer I look the other way, because your hands are covered with blood. (6:26) Cleanse yourselves! Remove your sinful deeds from my sight. Stop sinning! (6:45) Learn to do what is right! Take up the cause of the orphan! Defend the rights of the widow!
(0:20) “Come, let's consider your options, (7:02) though your sins have stained you like the color red, you can become white like snow; though they are as easy to see as the color scarlet, you can become white like wool.” (7:21) Let us have this argument together, says the Lord.
(7:30) If you have a willing attitude and obey, then you will again eat the good crops of the land, but if you refuse and rebel, I will send destruction on you by the sword.” Know for certain that the Lord has spoken.
THE UNFAITHFUL CITY (7:53) (9:27)
How tragic that the once-faithful city has become a prostitute! She was once a center of justice, fairness resided in her, but now only murderers. (8:14) Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.
(8:29) Your officials are rebels, they associate with thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and bribes…
(8:47) Therefore, the Strong One of Israel says: “Ah, I will seek vengeance against my adversaries, I will take revenge against my enemies (9:23) And my hand will again be on you, washing away what is unclean as with soap, taking away all your false metal. I will reestablish honest judges as in former times, then you will be called, 'The Just City, Faithful Town.' Zion will be freed by justice, and her returnees by righteousness. (9:33) And I will give you wise advisers as in the past.”
(9:54) All rebellious sinners will be shattered, those who abandon the Lord will perish. But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.
(10:19) You will be put to shame because the sacred gardens of your pleasure where you choose to worship, like a tree whose leaves wither. The powerful will be like a thread of🧶yarn (food for the fire), their deeds like a spark; both will burn together, and no one will put out the fire.