The Leeser Bible
1853 by Isaac Leeser

Isaiah Chapter 1

Isa 1:1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of ‘Uzziyahu, Jotham, Achaz, and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah.
Isa 1:2 Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord hath spoken: Children have I nourished and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.
Isa 1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Isa 1:4 Woe! sinful nation, people laden with iniquity, seed of evil–doers, children that are corrupt: they have forsaken the Lord, they have incensed the Holy One of Israel, they are departed backward.
Isa 1:5 Why will ye be stricken yet more? [that] ye increase the revolt? every head is sick, and every heart is faint.
Isa 1:6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor mollified with oil.
Isa 1:7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire; your soil––in your presence, strangers devour it, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Isa 1:8 And left is the daughter of Zion as a hut in a vineyard, as a lodge in a cucumber field, as a besieged city.
Isa 1:9 Unless the Lord of hosts had left unto us a remnant ever so small, like Sodom should we have been, unto Gomorrah should we have been compared.
Isa 1:10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom: give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Isa 1:11 For what serveth me the multitude of your sacrifices? saith the Lord: I am sated with the burnt–offerings of rams, and the fat of fatted beasts; and the blood of bullocks, and of sheep, and of he–goats, I do not desire.
Isa 1:12 When ye come to appear in my presence––who hath required this at your hand, to tread down my courts?
Isa 1:13 Continue no more to bring an oblation of deceit; incense of abomination is it unto me: new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies––I cannot bear misdeed with festive gathering.
Isa 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are become a burden unto me; I am weary to bear them,
Isa 1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will withdraw my eyes from you; yea, when ye make ever so many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Isa 1:16 Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil;
Isa 1:17 Learn to do well; seek for justice, relieve the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Isa 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins should be as scarlet, they shall become white as the snow; though they should be red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
Isa 1:19 If ye be willing and obey, the best of the land shall ye eat;
Isa 1:20 But if ye refuse and rebel, by the sword shall ye be devoured; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Isa 1:21 How is she become a harlot, the faithful town! she, that was full of justice; righteousness lodged therein; but now murderers.
Isa 1:22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine is drugged with water;
Isa 1:23 Thy princes are rebels, and companions of thieves; every one loveth brides, and runneth after rewards; to the fatherless they will not do justice, and the cause of the widow doth not come unto them.
Isa 1:24 Therefore saith the Lord, the Eternal of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will take satisfaction on my adversaries, and be avenged on my enemies.
Isa 1:25 And I will turn my hand against thee, and purge away as with lye thy dross, and remove all thy tin:
Isa 1:26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning; after that shalt thou be called, The city of righteousness, the town that is faithful.
Isa 1:27 Zion shall be redeemed through justice, and her converts through righteousness.
Isa 1:28 But destruction shall come over transgressors and sinners together, and those that forsake the Lord shall perish.
Isa 1:29 For people shall be ashamed because of the terebinths which ye had desired, and ye shall be put to the blush because of the gardens that ye had chosen.
Isa 1:30 For ye shall be as a terebinth the leaves of which wither, and as a garden that hath no water.
Isa 1:31 And the mighty oppressor shall become as tow, and his workman as a spark; and they shall both burn together, with none to quench.