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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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"><title>Isaiah 1 Lamsa Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Lamsa</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Lamsa Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-1.htm#aramaic"><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> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-2.htm#aramaic"><b>2</b></a></span>Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the LORD has spoken, I have reared and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-3.htm#aramaic"><b>3</b></a></span>The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-4.htm#aramaic"><b>4</b></a></span>Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, an offspring of evildoers, children that are corrupt; you have forsaken the LORD, you have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, you have gone away backward.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-5.htm#aramaic"><b>5</b></a></span>Why should you be stricken any more, and be chastised? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds and bruises, and swelling sores; they have not been closed, neither bound up, nor softened with oil.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>Except the LORD of hosts had left to us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and we should have been like Gomorrah.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>Of what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? says the LORD; I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I do not delight in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to tread my courts?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>Bring no more vain offerings to me; their savour is an abomination to me; in the new moons and sabbaths, you call an assembly; I do not eat that which is obtained wrongfully, and taken by force.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they are a burden to me; I am weary to bear them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>Learn to do good; seek justice, do good to the oppressed, plead for the fatherless, plead for the widows.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be like wool.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-20.htm#aramaic"><b>20</b></a></span>But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-21.htm#aramaic"><b>21</b></a></span>How is the faithful city become a harlot! For once it was full of justice; and righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-22.htm#aramaic"><b>22</b></a></span>Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-23.htm#aramaic"><b>23</b></a></span>Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves; every one of them loves a bribe and runs after rewards; they plead not the cause of the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come before them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-24.htm#aramaic"><b>24</b></a></span>Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah, I will avenge myself of my adversaries, I will take vengeance upon my enemies;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-25.htm#aramaic"><b>25</b></a></span>And I will turn my hand against you, and purge away your rebellious men, and remove all your iniquities;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-26.htm#aramaic"><b>26</b></a></span>And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counsellors as at the beginning; afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-27.htm#aramaic"><b>27</b></a></span>Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her captivity with righteousness.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-28.htm#aramaic"><b>28</b></a></span>And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and those who have forsaken the LORD shill perish.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-29.htm#aramaic"><b>29</b></a></span>For they shall be ashamed of the idols which they have desired, and they shall be confounded by the witchcraft which they have chosen.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-30.htm#aramaic"><b>30</b></a></span>For they shall be like an oak whose leaves have fallen, and like a garden that has no water.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-31.htm#aramaic"><b>31</b></a></span>And their strength shall be like cotton, and their works like a spark, and they shall both burn together, and there shall be none to quench them.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Holy Bible From The Ancient Eastern Texts: Aramaic Of The Peshitta by George M. 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