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Vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.


 * Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth,
 * For the hath spoken:
 * Children I have reared, and brought up,
 * And they have rebelled against Me.
 * The ox knoweth his owner,
 * And the ass his master's crib;
 * But Israel doth not know,
 * My people doth not consider.


 * Ah sinful nation,
 * A people laden with iniquity,
 * A seed of evil-doers,
 * Children that deal corruptly;
 * They have forsaken the ,
 * They have contemned the Holy One of Israel,
 * They are turned away backward.
 * On what part will ye yet be stricken,
 * Seeing ye stray away more and more?
 * The whole head is sick,
 * And the whole heart faint;
 * From the sole of the foot even unto the head
 * There is no soundness in it;
 * But wounds, and bruises, and festering sores:
 * They have not been pressed, neither bound up,
 * Neither mollified with oil.
 * Your country is desolate;
 * Your cities are burned with fire;
 * Your land, strangers devour it in your presence,
 * And it is desolate, as overthrown by floods.
 * And the daughter of Zion is left
 * As a booth in a vineyard,
 * As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers,
 * As a besieged city.
 * Except the of hosts
 * Had left unto us a very small remnant,
 * We should have been as Sodom,
 * We should have been like unto Gomorrah.


 * Hear the word of the ,
 * Ye rulers of Sodom;
 * Give ear unto the law of our God,
 * Ye people of Gomorrah.
 * To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me?
 * Saith the ;
 * I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams,
 * And the fat of fed beasts; And I delight not in the blood
 * Of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
 * When ye come to appear before Me,
 * Who hath required this at your hand,
 * To trample My courts?
 * Bring no more vain oblations;
 * It is an offering of abomination unto Me;
 * New moon and sabbath, the holding of convocations—