---
title: Isaiah 1
slug: kjv/isaiah-1
createdAt: 2024-08-21T02:23:17.440Z
---

**1 **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.

**2 **Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

**3 **The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: *but* Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

**4 **Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

**5 **Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

**6 **From the sole of the foot even unto the head *there is* no soundness in it; *but* wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

**7 **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 strangers.

**8 **And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

**9 **Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, *and* we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

**10 **Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

**11 **To what purpose *is* the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: 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.

**12 **When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

**13 **Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; *it is* iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

**14 **Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear *them*.

**15 **And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

**16 **Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

**17 **Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

**18 **Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

**19 **If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

**20 **But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken *it*.

**21 **How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

**22 **Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:

**23 **Thy princes *are* rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

**24 **Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:

**25 **And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

**26 **And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

**27 **Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.

**28 **And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners *shall be* together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

**29 **For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

**30 **For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

**31 **And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench *them*.