CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Isaiah 1 JPS Tanakh 1917</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/jps/isaiah/1.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> > Isaiah 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../songs/8.htm" title="Song of Solomon 8">◄</a> Isaiah 1 <a href="../isaiah/2.htm" title="Isaiah 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>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. <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth,</div><div class="po2">For the LORD hath spoken:</div><div class="po2">Children I have reared, and brought up,</div><div class="po2">And they have rebelled against Me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The ox knoweth his owner,</div><div class="po2">And the ass his master’s crib;</div><div class="po2">But Israel doth not know,</div><div class="po2">My people doth not consider.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Ah sinful nation,</div><div class="po2">A people laden with iniquity,</div><div class="po2">A seed of evil-doers,</div><div class="po2">Children that deal corruptly;</div><div class="po2">They have forsaken the LORD,</div><div class="po2">They have contemned the Holy One of Israel,</div><div class="po2">They are turned away backward.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>On what part will ye yet be stricken,</div><div class="po2">Seeing ye stray away more and more?</div><div class="po2">The whole head is sick,</div><div class="po2">And the whole heart faint;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>From the sole of the foot even unto the head</div><div class="po2">There is no soundness in it;</div><div class="po2">But wounds, and bruises, and festering sores:</div><div class="po2">They have not been pressed, neither bound up,</div><div class="po2">Neither mollified with oil.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Your country is desolate;</div><div class="po2">Your cities are burned with fire;</div><div class="po2">Your land, strangers devour it in your presence,</div><div class="po2">And it is desolate, as overthrown by floods.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the daughter of Zion is left</div><div class="po2">As a booth in a vineyard,</div><div class="po2">As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers,</div><div class="po2">As a besieged city.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Except the LORD of hosts</div><div class="po2">Had left unto us a very small remnant,</div><div class="po2">We should have been as Sodom,</div><div class="po2">We should have been like unto Gomorrah.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Hear the word of the LORD,</div><div class="po2">Ye rulers of Sodom;</div><div class="po2">Give ear unto the law of our God,</div><div class="po2">Ye people of Gomorrah.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me?<p>Saith the LORD;</div><div class="po2">I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams,</div><div class="po2">And the fat of fed beasts; And I delight not in the blood</div><div class="po2">Of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When ye come to appear before Me,</div><div class="po2">Who hath required this at your hand,</div><div class="po2">To trample My courts?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Bring no more vain oblations;</div><div class="po2">It is an offering of abomination unto Me;</div><div class="po2">New moon and sabbath, the holding of convocations—</div><div class="po2">I cannot endure iniquity along with the solemn assembly.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Your new moons and your appointed seasons</div><div class="po2">My soul hateth;</div><div class="po2">They are a burden unto Me;</div><div class="po2">I am weary to bear them.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And when ye spread forth your hands,</div><div class="po2">I will hide Mine eyes from you;</div><div class="po2">Yea, when ye make many prayers,</div><div class="po2">I will not hear;</div><div class="po2">Your hands are full of blood.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Wash you, make you clean,</div><div class="po2">Put away the evil of your doings</div><div class="po2">From before Mine eyes,</div><div class="po2">Cease to do evil;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Learn to do well;</div><div class="po2">Seek justice, relieve the oppressed,</div><div class="po2">Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Come now, and let us reason together,<p>Saith the LORD;</div><div class="po2">Though your sins be as scarlet,</div><div class="po2">They shall be as white as snow;</div><div class="po2">Though they be red like crimson,</div><div class="po2">They shall be as wool.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If ye be willing and obedient,</div><div class="po2">Ye shall eat the good of the land;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But if ye refuse and rebel,</div><div class="po2">Ye shall be devoured with the sword;</div><div class="po2">For the mouth of the LORD hath spoken.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>How is the faithful city</div><div class="po2">Become a harlot!</div><div class="po2">She that was full of justice,</div><div class="po2">Righteousness lodged in her,</div><div class="po2">But now murderers.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Thy silver is become dross,</div><div class="po2">Thy wine mixed with water.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Thy princes are rebellious,</div><div class="po2">And companions of thieves;</div><div class="po2">Every one loveth bribes,</div><div class="po2">And followeth after rewards;</div><div class="po2">They judge not the fatherless,</div><div class="po2">Neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts,</div><div class="po2">The Mighty One of Israel:</div><div class="po2">Ah, I will ease Me of Mine adversaries,</div><div class="po2">And avenge Me of Mine enemies;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And I will turn My hand upon thee,</div><div class="po2">And purge away thy dross as with lye,</div><div class="po2">And will take away all thine alloy;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And I will restore thy judges as at the first, And thy counsellors as at the beginning;</div><div class="po2">Afterward thou shalt be called The city of righteousness,</div><div class="po2">The faithful city.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Zion shall be redeemed with justice,</div><div class="po2">And they that return of her with righteousness.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>But the destruction of the transgressors and the sinners shall be together,</div><div class="po2">And they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>For they shall be ashamed of the terebinths which ye have desired,</div><div class="po2">And ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>For ye shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fadeth,</div><div class="po2">And as a garden that hath no water.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/1-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And the strong shall be as tow,</div><div class="po2">And his work as a spark;</div><div class="po2">And they shall both burn together,</div><div class="po2">And none shall quench them.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../songs/8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Song of Solomon 8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Song of Solomon 8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/isaiah/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); var rcds = document.getElementById("rcjsload_a957f3"); var rcel = document.createElement("script"); rcel.id = 'rc_' + Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000); rcel.type = 'text/javascript'; rcel.src = "https://trends.revcontent.com/serve.js.php?w=111176&t="+rcel.id+"&c="+(new Date()).getTime()+"&width="+(window.outerWidth || document.documentElement.clientWidth)+"&referer="+encodeURIComponent(referer); rcel.async = true; rcds.appendChild(rcel); })(); </script> </td></tr></table> <br /><br /> <div class="bot2"> <table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2-bhub.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></body></html>