From www.ebible.org with slight reformatting by Martin Ward. Book 23 Isaiah 001:001 The 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. 001:002 Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. 001:003 The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Israel doesn't know, my people don't consider. 001:004 Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward. 001:005 Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 001:006 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven't been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil. 001:007 Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. 001:008 The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city. 001:009 Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom; we would have been like Gomorrah. 001:010 Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah! 001:011 "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. 001:012 When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts? 001:013 Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can't bear with evil assemblies. 001:014 My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them. 001:015 When you spread forth 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. 001:016 Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. 001:017 Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow." 001:018 "Come now, and let us reason together," says Yahweh: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 001:019 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good