The vision of Yesha῾yahu the son of Amoż, which he saw concerning Yehuda and Yerushalayim in the days of ῾Uzziyyahu, Yotam, Aĥaz, Yeĥizqiyyahu, kings of Yehuda.

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.

The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Yisra᾽el does not know, my people does not consider.

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that deal corruptly: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Yisra᾽el to anger, they are gone away backward.

Where could you still be smitten, that you revolt again: every head is sick, and every heart faint.

From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been pressed, neither bound up, nor mollified with oil.

Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: as for your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as though overthrown by strangers.

And the daughter of Żiyyon is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, like a besieged city.

If the Lord of hosts had not left us a very small remnant, we should have been like Sedom, and we should have been like ῾Amora.

Hear the word of the Lord, rulers of Sedom; give ear to the Tora of our God, you people of ῾Amora.

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? says the Lord: I am sated with 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.

When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

Bring no more vain offerings; incense of abomination they are to me; as for new moons and sabbaths and the calling of assemblies, I cannot bear iniquity along with solemn meeting.

Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble to me; I am weary of enduring them.

And when you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: even when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

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

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

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

If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land:

but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.

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

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

thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loves bribes, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless neither does the cause of the widow reach them.

Therefore says the Master, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of Yisra᾽el, Ah, I will ease me of my adversaries, and avenge me of my enemies:

and I will turn my hand against thee, and purge away thy dross as with lye, and take away all thy base alloy.

And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterwards thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, a faithful city.

Żiyyon shall be redeemed with judgment, and those that return to her with righteousness.

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

For they shall be ashamed of the sacred oaks on which you set your desire, and you shall be confounded on account of the gardens of idolatry that you did choose.

For you shall be like an oak whose leave are fading, and like a garden that has no water.

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.