Isaiah 1

1 The vision which Isaiah, son of Amoz, had concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
2 Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth, for the LORD speaks: Sons have I raised and reared, but they have disowned me!
3 An ox knows its owner, and an ass, its master's manger; But Israel does not know, my people has not understood.
4 Ah! sinful nation, people laden with wickedness, evil race, corrupt children! They have forsaken the LORD, spurned the Holy One of Israel, apostatized.
5 Where would you yet be struck, you that rebel again and again? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint.
6 From the sole of the foot to the head there is no sound spot: Wound and welt and gaping gash, not drained, or bandaged, or eased with salve.
7 Your country is waste, your cities burnt with fire; Your land before your eyes strangers devour (a waste, like Sodom overthrown)--
8 And daughter Zion is left like a hut in a vineyard, Like a shed in a melon patch, like a city blockaded.
9 Unless the LORD of hosts had left us a scanty remnant, We had become as Sodom, we should be like Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the LORD, princes of Sodom! Listen to the instruction of our God, people of Gomorrah!
11 What care I for the number of your sacrifices? says the LORD. I have had enough of whole-burnt rams and fat of fatlings; In the blood of calves, lambs and goats I find no pleasure.
12 When you come in to visit me, who asks these things of you?
13 Trample my courts no more! Bring no more worthless offerings; your incense is loathsome to me. New moon and sabbath, calling of assemblies, octaves with wickedness: these I cannot bear.
14 Your new moons and festivals I detest; they weigh me down, I tire of the load.
15 When you spread out your hands, I close my eyes to you; Though you pray the more, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood!
16 Wash yourselves clean! Put away your misdeeds from before my eyes; cease doing evil;
17 learn to do good. Make justice your aim: redress the wronged, hear the orphan's plea, defend the widow.
18 Come now, let us set things right, says the LORD: Though your sins be like scarlet, they may become white as snow; Though they be crimson red, they may become white as wool.
19 If you are willing, and obey, you shall eat the good things of the land;
20 But if you refuse and resist, the sword shall consume you: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken!
21 How has she turned adulteress, the faithful city, so upright! Justice used to lodge within her, but now, murderers.
22 Your silver is turned to dross, your wine is mixed with water.
23 Your princes are rebels and comrades of thieves; Each one of them loves a bribe and looks for gifts. The fatherless they defend not, and the widow's plea does not reach them.
24 Now, therefore, says the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah! I will take vengeance on my foes and fully repay my enemies!
25 I will turn my hand against you, and refine your dross in the furnace, removing all your alloy.
26 I will restore your judges as at first, and your counselors as in the beginning; After that you shall be called city of justice, faithful city.
27 Zion shall be redeemed by judgment, and her repentant ones by justice.
28 Rebels and sinners alike shall be crushed, those who desert the LORD shall be consumed.
29 You shall be ashamed of the terebinths which you prized, and blush for the groves which you chose.
30 You shall become like a tree with falling leaves, like a garden that has no water.
31 The strong man shall turn to tow, and his work shall become a spark; Both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench the flames.

Isaiah 2

1 This is what Isaiah, son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 In days to come, The mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established as the highest mountain and raised above the hills. All nations shall stream toward it;
3 many peoples shall come and say: Come, let us climb the LORD'S mountain, to the house of the God of Jacob, That he may instruct us in his ways, and we may walk in his paths. For from Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 He shall judge between the nations, and impose terms on many peoples. They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; One nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again.
5 O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the LORD!
6 You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with fortunetellers and soothsayers, like the Philistines; they covenant with strangers.
7 Their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; Their land is full of horses, and there is no end to their chariots.
8 Their land is full of idols; they worship the works of their hands, that which their fingers have made.
9 But man is abased, each one brought low. (Do not pardon them!)
10 Get behind the rocks, hide in the dust, From the terror of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty!
11 The haughty eyes of man will be lowered, the arrogance of men will be abased, and the LORD alone will be exalted, on that day.
12 For the LORD of hosts will have his day against all that is proud and arrogant, all that is high, and it will be brought low;
13 Yes, against all the cedars of Lebanon and all the oaks of Bashan,
14 Against all the lofty mountains and all the high hills,
15 Against every lofty tower and every fortified wall,
16 Against all the ships of Tarshish and all stately vessels.
17 Human pride will be abased, the arrogance of men brought low, And the LORD alone will be exalted, on that day.
18 The idols will perish forever.
19 Men will go into caves in the rocks and into holes in the earth, From the terror of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty, when he arises to overawe the earth.
20 On that day men will throw to the moles and the bats the idols of silver and gold which they made for worship.
21 They go into caverns in the rocks and into crevices in the cliffs, From the terror of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty, when he arises to overawe the earth.
22 As for you, let man alone, in whose nostrils is but a breath; for what is he worth?

Isaiah 3

1 The Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall take away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and prop (all supplies of bread and water):
2 Hero and warrior, judge and prophet, fortune-teller and elder,
3 The captain of fifty and the nobleman, counselor, skilled magician, and expert charmer.
4 I will make striplings their princes; the fickle shall govern them,
5 And the people shall oppress one another, yes, every man his neighbor. The child shall be bold toward the elder, and the base toward the honorable.
6 When a man seizes his brother in his father's house, saying, You have clothes! Be our ruler, and take in hand this ruin!--
7 Then shall he answer in that day: I will not undertake to cure this, when in my own house there is no bread or clothing! You shall not make me ruler of the people.
8 Jerusalem is crumbling, Judah is falling; for their speech and their deeds are before the LORD, a provocation in the sight of his majesty.
9 Their very look bears witness against them; their sin like Sodom they vaunt, They hide it not. Woe to them! they deal out evil to themselves.
10 Happy the just, for it will be well with them, the fruit of their works they will eat.
11 Woe to the wicked man! All goes ill, with the work of his hands he will be repaid.
12 My people--a babe in arms will be their tyrant, and women will rule them! O my people, your leaders mislead, they destroy the paths you should follow.
13 The LORD rises to accuse, standing to try his people.
14 The Lord enters into judgment with his people's elders and princes: It is you who have devoured the vineyard; the loot wrested from the poor is in your houses.
15 What do you mean by crushing my people, and grinding down the poor when they look to you? says the Lord, the GOD of hosts.
16 The LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with necks outstretched Ogling and mincing as they go, their anklets tinkling with every step,
17 The Lord shall cover the scalps of Zion's daughters with scabs, and the LORD shall bare their heads.
18 On that day the LORD will do away with the finery of the anklets, sunbursts, and crescents;
19 the pendants, bracelets, and veils;
20 the headdresses, bangles, cinctures, perfume boxes, and amulets;
21 the signet rings, and the nose rings;
22 the court dresses, wraps, cloaks, and purses;
23 the mirrors, linen tunics, turbans, and shawls.
24 Instead of perfume there will be stench, instead of the girdle, a rope, And for the coiffure, baldness; for the rich gown, a sackcloth skirt. Then, instead of beauty:
25 Your men will fall by the sword, and your champions, in war;
26 Her gates will lament and mourn, as the city sits desolate on the ground.

Isaiah 4

1 Seven women will take hold of one man on that day, saying: We will eat our own food and wear our own clothing; Only let your name be given us, put an end to our disgrace!
2 On that day, The branch of the LORD will be luster and glory, and the fruit of the earth will be honor and splendor for the survivors of Israel.
3 He who remains in Zion and he that is left in Jerusalem Will be called holy: every one marked down for life in Jerusalem.
4 When the Lord washes away the filth of the daughters of Zion, And purges Jerusalem's blood from her midst with a blast of searing judgment,
5 Then will the LORD create, over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her place of assembly, A smoking cloud by day and a light of flaming fire by night.
6 For over all, his glory will be shelter and protection: shade from the parching heat of day, refuge and cover from storm and rain.