Isaiah 1

1The 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.Cross-references: Num 12:6 · Num 24:4 · Num 24:16 · 2Ki 15:1 · 2Ki 15:7 · 2Ki 15:32 · +20 more

2Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.Cross-references: Deut 1:31 · Deut 4:7 · Deut 4:26 · Deut 9:22 · Deut 30:19 · Deut 32:1 · +23 more

3The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”Cross-references: Deut 32:28 · Ps 94:8 · Prov 6:6 · Isa 5:12 · Isa 27:11 · Isa 44:18 · +9 more

4Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.Cross-references: Gen 13:13 · Num 32:14 · Deut 29:25 · Deut 31:16 · Deut 32:19 · Judg 10:10 · +41 more

5Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.Cross-references: 2Chr 28:22 · Neh 9:34 · Isa 1:23 · Isa 9:13 · Isa 9:21 · Isa 31:6 · +12 more

6From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.Cross-references: 2Chr 6:28 · Job 2:7 · Job 5:18 · Ps 38:3 · Ps 77:2 · Jer 6:14 · +9 more

7Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.Cross-references: Lev 26:34 · Deut 28:33 · Deut 28:43 · Deut 28:48 · 2Chr 28:5 · 2Chr 28:16 · +15 more

8The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.Cross-references: Job 27:18 · Ps 9:14 · Isa 4:4 · Isa 8:8 · Isa 10:32 · Isa 37:22 · +8 more

9Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom. We would have been like Gomorrah.Cross-references: Gen 18:26 · Gen 18:32 · Gen 19:24 · Deut 29:23 · 1Ki 19:18 · Isa 6:13 · +20 more

10Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!Cross-references: Gen 13:13 · Deut 32:32 · 1Ki 22:19 · Isa 3:9 · Isa 8:20 · Isa 28:14 · +10 more

11“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.Cross-references: 1Sam 15:22 · Ps 50:8 · Ps 51:16 · Prov 15:8 · Prov 21:27 · Isa 66:3 · +6 more

12When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?Cross-references: Ex 23:17 · Ex 34:23 · Deut 16:16 · Ps 40:6 · Eccl 5:1 · Isa 58:1 · +2 more

13Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations— I can’t stand evil assemblies.Cross-references: Ex 12:16 · Lev 23:1 · Num 28:1 · Deut 16:1 · 1Chr 23:31 · Ps 78:40 · +13 more

14My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.Cross-references: Isa 7:13 · Isa 29:1 · Isa 43:24 · Isa 61:8 · Amos 2:13 · Amos 5:21 · +2 more

15When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:22 · 1Ki 8:54 · Ezra 9:5 · Job 27:8 · Job 27:20 · Ps 55:1 · +16 more

16Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.Cross-references: Job 11:13 · Ps 26:6 · Ps 34:14 · Ps 37:27 · Isa 52:11 · Isa 55:6 · +15 more

17Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”Cross-references: Ps 82:3 · Prov 31:9 · Isa 1:23 · Jer 22:3 · Jer 22:15 · Dan 4:27 · +4 more

18“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.Cross-references: 1Sam 12:7 · Ps 51:7 · Isa 41:1 · Isa 41:21 · Isa 43:24 · Isa 44:22 · +9 more

19If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;Cross-references: Deut 30:15 · Isa 3:10 · Isa 55:1 · Isa 55:6 · Jer 3:12 · Jer 31:18 · +4 more

20but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword; for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.”Cross-references: Lev 26:33 · Num 23:19 · 1Sam 12:25 · 1Sam 15:29 · 2Chr 36:14 · Isa 3:11 · +7 more

21How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice. Righteousness lodged in her, but now there are murderers.Cross-references: 2Sam 8:15 · 2Chr 19:9 · Neh 11:1 · Ps 46:4 · Ps 48:1 · Ps 48:8 · +17 more

22Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.Cross-references: Jer 6:28 · Lam 4:1 · Ezek 22:18 · Hos 4:18 · Hos 6:4 · 2Cor 2:17

23Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.Cross-references: Ex 23:8 · Deut 16:19 · 2Chr 24:17 · 2Chr 36:14 · Prov 17:23 · Prov 29:24 · +21 more

24Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: “Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself on my enemies.Cross-references: Deut 28:63 · Deut 32:43 · Ps 132:2 · Prov 1:25 · Isa 30:29 · Isa 35:4 · +10 more

25I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.Cross-references: Isa 1:22 · Isa 4:4 · Isa 6:11 · Jer 6:29 · Jer 9:7 · Ezek 20:38 · +7 more

26I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness, a faithful town.’Cross-references: Num 12:3 · Num 16:15 · 1Sam 12:2 · Isa 1:21 · Isa 32:1 · Isa 33:5 · +16 more

27Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.Cross-references: Isa 5:16 · Isa 45:21 · Isa 62:12 · Isa 63:4 · Rom 3:24 · Rom 11:26 · +5 more

28But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.Cross-references: 1Sam 12:25 · 1Ki 9:6 · 1Chr 28:9 · Job 31:3 · Ps 1:6 · Ps 5:6 · +17 more

29For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.Cross-references: Isa 30:22 · Isa 31:7 · Isa 45:16 · Isa 57:5 · Isa 65:3 · Isa 66:17 · +9 more

30For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.Cross-references: Isa 5:6 · Isa 58:11 · Jer 17:5 · Jer 31:12 · Ezek 17:9 · Ezek 17:24 · +2 more

31The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. They will both burn together, and no one will quench them.”Cross-references: Judg 15:14 · Isa 5:24 · Isa 9:19 · Isa 26:11 · Isa 27:4 · Isa 33:14 · +13 more