[1] The vision of Yeshayahu son of Amots, which he saw concerning Yehuḏah and Yerushalayim in the days of Uzziyahu, Yotham, Aḥaz, Ḥizqiyahu – sovereigns of Yehuḏah. [2] Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth! For יהוה has spoken, “I have reared and brought up children, but they have transgressed against Me. [3] An ox knows its owner and a donkey its master’s crib – Yisra’ĕl does not know, My people have not understood.” [4] Alas, sinning nation, a people loaded with crookedness, a seed of evil-doers, sons acting corruptly! They have forsaken יהוה, they have provoked the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl, they went backward. [5] Why should you be stricken any more? You continue in apostasy! All the head is sick, and all the heart faints. [6] From the sole of the foot, to the head, there is no soundness in it – wounds and bruises and open sores; they have not been closed or bound up, or soothed with ointment. [7] Your land is laid waste, your cities are burned with fire, strangers devour your land in your presence. And it is laid waste, as overthrown by strangers. [8] And the daughter of Tsiyon is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a hut in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. [9] Unless יהוה of hosts had left to us a small remnant, we would have become like Seḏom, we would have been made like Amorah.
[10] Hear the word of יהוה, you rulers of Seḏom; give ear to the Torah of our Elohim, you people of Amorah! [11] “Of what use to Me are your many slaughterings?” declares יהוה. “I have had enough of ascending offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs or goats. [12] “When you come to appear before Me, who has required this from your hand, to trample My courtyards? [13] “Stop bringing futile offerings, incense, it is an abomination to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, the calling of gatherings – I am unable to bear unrighteousness and assembly. [14] “My being hates your New Moons and your appointed times, they are a trouble to Me, I am weary of bearing them. [15] “And when you spread out your hands, I hide My eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I do not hear. Your hands have become filled with blood. [16] “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Stop doing evil!
[17] “Learn to do good! Seek right-ruling, reprove the oppressor, defend the fatherless, plead for the widow. [18] “Come now, and let us reason together,” says יהוה. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
[19] “If you submit and obey, you shall eat the good of the land; [20] but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword,” for the mouth of יהוה has spoken. [21] How the steadfast city has become a whore! I have filled it with right-ruling; righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers. [22] Your silver has become dross, your wine is mixed with water. [23] Your rulers are stubborn, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and runs after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow reach them. [24] Therefore the Master declares, יהוה of hosts, the Mighty One of Yisra’ĕl, “Ah, I shall be eased of My adversaries, and I shall be avenged of My enemies. [25] “And I shall turn My hand against you, and shall refine your dross as with lye, and shall remove all your alloy. [26] “And I shall give back your judges as at the first, and your counsellors as at the beginning. After this you shall be called the city of righteousness, a steadfast city.” [27] Tsiyon shall be ransomed with right-ruling, and her returning ones with righteousness. [28] And the destruction of transgressors and of sinners is together, and those who forsake יהוה shall be consumed. [29] For they shall be ashamed of the terebinth trees which you have desired. And you shall be embarrassed because of the gardens which you have chosen. [30] For you shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water. [31] The strong shall be for tow, and his work for a spark. And both shall burn together, with no one to extinguish.
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