6 From the sole of the foot even to the head There is no soundness in it;

A wound, a swelling, and a putrifying sore;

And they have not been plastered, nor bound up,

Nor softened with ointment.

7 Your country is desolation; Your cities are burnt with fire;

Your land do strangers devour in your presence,

It is reduced to solitude, like the destruction of foreigners. 8 And the daughter of Zion shall be left,

As a cottage in a vineyard,

As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers,

As a city laid waste.

9 Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a very small remnant, We should have been as Sodom,

And like Gomorrah.

10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye princes of Sodom!

Give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah!
Of what value to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?
Saith the Lord.

11 I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams,

And of the fat of fed beasts;

And in the blood of oxen, or of sheep, or of he-goats,

I delight not.

12 When you come that you may appear before my face, Who hath required this at your hand?

Even to tread my courts.

13 Do not continue to bring an offering of vanity.

Incense is an abomination to me.

The new-moon, and the sabbath, and the yearly assemblies,

I cannot endure,

(It is a vain thing.)

Nor the assembly.

14 Your new-moons and your yearly festivals

My soul hateth;

They have been a burden to me;

I am weary of bearing them.

15 When ye spread forth your hands,
I will hide mine eyes from you.
Even though you multiply prayer,
I will not hear.

Your hands are full of blood.

16 Wash you, make you clean ;

Take away the wickedness of your practices from before mine

eyes;

Cease to do evil;

17 Learn to do well:

Seek judgment, restore1 the oppressed; Plead for the orphan, defend the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, Hath the Lord said:

If your sins be as scarlet,

They shall be white as snow;

If they be red like purple,
They shall be as wool.

19 If ye shall be willing and shall hearken,
Ye shall eat the good of the land.

20 But if ye shall refuse and rebel,

Ye shall be consumed by the sword;
For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

21 How is the faithful city become a harlot!
She was full of judgment,

And righteousness lodged by night2 in her;
But now murderers.

22 Thy silver is become dross,

And thy wine is mixed with water.

23 Thy princes are rebellious,

And are companions of thieves;

Every one loveth a gift,

And seeketh eagerly for rewards.

They judge not the cause of the fatherless,
Nor doth the cause of the widow come to them.

24 Therefore saith the Lord,3 Jehovah of hosts,
The mighty One of Israel;

Alas! I will take consolation on mine adversaries,
I will be avenged of mine enemies.

25. I will turn my hand upon thee;

I will purely purge away thy dross,
And I will take away all thy tin.

26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first,
And thy counsellors as at the beginning.
Then shall it be said of thee,

The city of righteousness,

The faithful city.

27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment,

And they who shall be brought back to her with righteousness. 28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners

shall be together,

And they who have revolted from the Lord shall be consumed. 29 Yea, they shall be ashamed

Of the trees which ye have desired,

1 Or, Guide.

2

Or, Dwelt.

3

Or, The Governor.

And they shall be covered with disgrace
By the groves which ye have chosen.

30 Ye shall surely be as a tree whose leaf fadeth,
And as a grove that hath no water.

31

And your strong man1 shall be as tow,

And the maker of it as a spark ;

And they shall both be burnt,

And there shall be none to quench them.

CHAPTER II.

1 The word which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

2 And it shall come to pass in the last of the days,

That the mountain of the house of Jehovah

Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills;

And all nations shall flow to it.

3 And many peoples shall come, and shall say, Come, and we shall go up

To the mountain of Jehovah,

To the house of the God of Jacob;
And he will teach us in his ways,

And we shall walk in his paths;

For out of Zion shall go forth the law,

And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

4 And he will judge among the nations,

And will rebuke many peoples:

And they shall beat their swords into spades,

And their spears into pruning-hooks;

And nation shall not lift up sword against nation,

Neither shall they practise war any more.

5

O house of Jacob, come ye,

And we shall walk in the light of the Lord.

6 Verily thou hast forsaken thy people, the house of Jacob; Because they are filled with the east,2

And with soothsayers, like the Philistines;

And they have delighted in the children of foreigners.

7 Their land is full of silver and gold,

And there is no end to their treasures.

Their land is also full of horses,

And there is no end to their chariots.

8 Their land is also full of idols,

1 Otherwise, Your god.

2 Or, With antiquity.

And they have bowed down

Before the work of their own hands,

Before that which their fingers have made. 9 And the man of low degree boweth down, And the man of rank humbleth himself; Therefore do not thou forgive them.1

10 Enter into the rock,

Hide thee in the dust,

From before the fear of the Lord

And the glory of his majesty.

11 The loftiness of the eyes of men shall be humbled, And the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down; And Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day. 12 For the day of Jehovah of hosts shall be On every one that is proud and lofty,

And on all that is lifted up,

And it shall be brought low.

13 Even on all the cedars of Lebanon high and lifted up, On all the oaks of Bashan,

14 And on all the lofty mountains,

And on all the high hills,

15 And on every lofty tower,

And on every fortified wall;

16 On all the ships of Tarshish,

And on delightful pictures.

17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, And the haughtiness of men shall be humbled; And Jehovah alone shall be exalted on that day. 18 And he will utterly abolish the idols.

19 And they shall enter into caverns of the rocks,
And into clefts of the earth,

From the presence of the terror of Jehovah,
And from the glory of his majesty,

When he shall arise to shake the earth.

20 In that day shall a man cast away

His idols of silver,

And his idols of gold,

Which they made for him to worship,

Into the cavern of the moles and of the bats;

21 And they shall enter into the clefts of the rocks, And into the tops of the ragged rocks,

From before the fear of the Lord,

And from the glory of his majesty,
When he shall arise to shake the earth.

22 Cease then from man,

1 Or, Thou wilt not forgive them.

Whose breath is in his nostrils ;

For in what respect1 is he valued?

CHAPTER III.

1 For, behold, the Governor, Jehovah of hosts, Will take away from Jerusalem and Judah The stay and the strength;

The whole stay of bread;

The whole stay of water;

2 The strong man and the man of war, The judge and the prophet,

And the diviner and the elder;

3 The captain of fifty, and the man of rank,

The senator, and the skilful artificer, and the eloquent.2 4 And I will appoint boys to be their rulers,

And babes shall rule over them.

5 The people shall violently oppress each other,

A man his neighbour;

The youth shall behave insolently towards the old man,

The despicable towards the honourable.

6 When every man shall take hold of his brother

Of the family of his father, saying,

Thou hast raiment ;

Be thou our ruler;

Let this ruin be under thy hand;

7 He shall swear in that day, saying,

I will not be a healer;

For in my house is neither bread nor raiment;
Therefore make me not a ruler of the people.

8 Verily Jerusalem is ruined,

And Judah is fallen;

Because their tongue and their practices are against Jehovah, To provoke the eyes of his glory.

9 The proof of their countenance answereth in them ;3

They have declared their sin, as Sodom,

And have not hid it.

Wo to their soul!

For they have brought evil on them.

10 Say ye to the righteous man,

It shall be well;

For they shall eat the fruit of their hands.

11 Wo to the wicked man!

It shall be ill;