1. The vision which Isaiah, son of Amoz, saw 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 rebelled against 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 offspring, corrupt children!They have forsaken the Lord,spurned the Holy One of Israel,apostatized,
5. Why would you yet be struck,that you continue to rebel?The whole head is sick,the whole heart faint.
6. From the sole of the foot to the headthere is no sound spot in it;Just bruise and welt and oozing wound,not drained, or bandaged,or eased with salve.
7. Your country is waste,your cities burnt with fire;Your land—before your eyesstrangers devour it,a waste, like the devastation of Sodom.
8. And daughter Zion is leftlike a hut in a vineyard,Like a shed in a melon patch,like a city blockaded.
9. If the Lord of hosts had notleft us a small remnant,We would have become as Sodom,would have resembled Gomorrah.
10. Hear the word of the Lord,princes of Sodom!Listen to the instruction of our God,people of Gomorrah!
11. What do I care for the multitude of your sacrifices?says the Lord.I have had enough of whole-burnt ramsand fat of fatlings;In the blood of calves, lambs, and goatsI find no pleasure.
12. When you come to appear before me,who asks these things of you?
13. Trample my courts no more!To bring offerings is useless;incense is an abomination to me.New moon and sabbath, calling assemblies—festive convocations with wickedness—these I cannot bear.