Isaiah 1
1 vision Isaiah son: child Amoz which to see upon Judah and Jerusalem in/on/with day Uzziah Jotham Ahaz Hezekiah king Judah
This is the vision that Isaiah, son of Amoz, saw about Judah and Jerusalem in the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
2 to hear: hear heaven and to listen land: country/planet for LORD to speak: speak son: child to magnify and to exalt and they(masc.) to transgress in/on/with me
Heavens, listen! Earth, pay attention! For the Lord has spoken! I brought up children, I cared for them, but they have rebelled against me.
3 to know cattle to buy him and donkey crib master his Israel not to know people my not to understand
An ox knows its owner, and a donkey knows its feeding trough; but my people don't know me, they don't understand me.
4 woe! nation to sin people heavy iniquity: crime seed: children be evil son: child to ruin to leave: forsake [obj] LORD to spurn [obj] holy Israel be a stranger back
What a sinful nation—a people carrying such a load of guilt, an evil generation, corrupt children! They have abandoned the Lord. They have despised Israel's Holy One. They have become strangers. They have gone backwards.
5 upon what? to smite still to add: again revolt all head to/for sickness and all heart faint
Are you wanting to be punished? Are you going to continue to rebel? The whole of your head is damaged, and your heart is totally giving out.
6 from palm: sole foot and till head nothing in/on/with him soundness wound and wound and wound fresh not to crush and not to saddle/tie and not be tender in/on/with oil
You're injured from head to toe, bruised and sore, with open wounds that haven't been cleaned or bandaged or treated with olive oil.
7 land: country/planet your devastation city your to burn fire land: soil your to/for before you be a stranger to eat [obj] her and devastation like/as overthrow be a stranger
Your country has been devastated, your towns burned down, your fields stripped bare by foreigners right in front of you, as they turn it all into a wasteland.
8 and to remain daughter Zion like/as booth in/on/with vineyard like/as lodge in/on/with cucumber field like/as city to watch
The daughter of Zion is left like a shack in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a city under attack.
9 unless LORD Hosts to remain to/for us survivor like/as little like/as Sodom to be to/for Gomorrah to resemble
If the Lord Almighty hadn't let a few of us survive, we would have become like Sodom and Gomorrah.
10 to hear: hear word LORD chief Sodom to listen instruction God our people Gomorrah
Listen to what the Lord has to say, you rulers of Sodom! Pay attention to the instructions of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
11 to/for what? to/for me abundance sacrifice your to say LORD to satisfy burnt offering ram and fat fatling and blood bullock and lamb and goat not to delight in
What use are all your many sacrifices to me? asks the Lord. I am sick and tired of your burnt offerings of rams and the fat of sacrificial animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats!
12 for to come (in): come to/for to see: see face: before my who? to seek this from hand: themselves your to trample court my
When you come to appear before me in worship, who asked you to proudly tramp around my courts?
13 not to add: again to come (in): bring offering vanity: vain incense abomination he/she/it to/for me month: new moon and Sabbath to call: call to assembly not be able evil: wickedness and assembly
Don't bring me any more meaningless offerings; your incense is offensive to me. Your new moon festivals and Sabbath observations and your calling of special religious meetings—I can't stand them because they're evil, as are your solemn assemblies.
14 month: new moon your and meeting: festival your to hate soul my to be upon me to/for burden be weary to lift: bear
I detest your new moon and yearly festivals with my whole being! They've become just a burden to me—I can't bear them anymore!
15 and in/on/with to spread you palm your to conceal eye my from you also for to multiply prayer nothing I to hear: hear hand your blood to fill
When you hold up your hands to me in prayer, I'll look away. Even though you pray many prayers, I won't pay attention to them, because your hands are full of blood.
16 to wash: wash to clean to turn aside: remove evil deed your from before eye my to cease be evil
Wash yourselves and clean yourselves up. Get rid of your sins—I don't want to see them! Stop doing evil!
17 to learn: learn be good to seek justice to bless oppression to judge orphan to contend widow
Learn to do good; strive for justice, condemn those who oppress others; support the rights of orphans, take up cases to defend widows.
18 to go: come! please and to rebuke to say LORD if to be sin your like/as scarlet like/as snow to whiten if to redden like/as worm like/as wool to be
Come on, let's argue this out, says the Lord. Even though your sins are like scarlet, they will become white like snow. Even though they are red like crimson, they will become like wool.
19 if be willing and to hear: obey goodness [the] land: country/planet to eat
If you really want this, and if you do as you're told, then you yourselves will eat the best things that the land produces.
20 and if to refuse and to rebel sword to eat for lip LORD to speak: speak
But if you are defiant, and if you are rebellious, you'll be killed by the sword. This is what the Lord has declared!
21 how? to be to/for to fornicate town be faithful full justice righteousness to lodge in/on/with her and now to murder
The city that used to be faithful has turned into a prostitute! Once she operated on principles of justice and followed what was right, but now only murderers live there.
22 silver: money your to be to/for dross liquor your to weaken in/on/with water
Your silver has become worthless waste; you wine has been watered down.
23 ruler your to rebel and companion thief all his to love: lover bribe and to pursue reward orphan not to judge and strife widow not to come (in): come to(wards) them
Your leaders are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and want to get kickbacks. They don't defend the rights of orphans, and refuse to take cases to help widows.
24 to/for so utterance [the] lord LORD Hosts mighty Israel woe! to be sorry: comfort from enemy my and to avenge from enemy my
So this is what the Lord says, the Lord Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel: Ha! I will take satisfaction in punishing my enemies, by paying back those who hate me!
25 and to return: return hand my upon you and to refine like/as lye dross your and to turn aside: remove all tin your
I will turn against you. I will refine you in a furnace, removing all impurities.
26 and to return: rescue to judge you like/as in/on/with first and to advise you like/as in/on/with beginning after so to call: call by to/for you city [the] righteousness town be faithful
I will give you good leaders as you used to have before, wise counselors as you had in the beginning. After that you will once again be called the City of Integrity, the Faithful City.
27 Zion in/on/with justice to ransom and to return: repent her in/on/with righteousness
Zion will be rescued by justice, those who repent by doing right.
28 and breaking to transgress and sinner together and to leave: forsake LORD to end: destroy
But rebels and sinners will be destroyed together, and those who abandon the Lord will die.
29 for be ashamed from terebinth which to desire and be ashamed from [the] garden which to choose
You will be ashamed about how you enjoyed your pagan worship among the oak trees; you will be embarrassed because you chose the pleasure gardens of idols.
30 for to be like/as oak to wither leaf her and like/as garden which water nothing to/for her
As a result you will become like an oak whose leaves have withered, a dried-out garden that has no water.
31 and to be [the] strong to/for tow and work his to/for spark and to burn: burn two their together and nothing to quench
Your strong people will become like tinder, and their work will become like a spark. They will burn together, and nobody will be able to put out the flames.
