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Judah’s Rebellion

¹This is the vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

²Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth,

for the LORD has spoken:

“I have raised children and brought them up,

but they have rebelled against Me.

³The ox knows its owner,

and the donkey its master’s manger,

but Israel does not know;

My people do not understand.”

⁴Alas, O sinful nation,

a people laden with iniquity,

a brood of evildoers,

children who act corruptly!

They have forsaken the LORD;

they have despised the Holy One of Israel

and turned their backs on Him.

⁵Why do you want more beatings?

Why do you keep rebelling?

Your head has a massive wound,

and your whole heart is afflicted.

⁶From the sole of your foot to the top of your head,

there is no soundness—

only wounds and welts and festering sores

neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.

⁷Your land is desolate;

your cities are burned with fire.

Foreigners devour your fields before you —

a desolation demolished by strangers.

⁸And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned

like a shelter in a vineyard,

like a shack in a cucumber field,

like a city besieged.

⁹Unless the LORD of Hosts

had left us a few survivors,

we would have become like Sodom,

we would have resembled Gomorrah.

Meaningless Offerings

¹⁰Hear the word of the LORD,

you rulers of Sodom;

listen to the instruction of our God,

you people of Gomorrah!

¹¹“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?”

says the LORD.

“I am full from the burnt offerings of rams

and the fat of well-fed cattle;

I take no delight in the blood of bulls

and lambs and goats.

¹²When you come to appear before Me,

who has required this of you—

this trampling of My courts?

¹³Bring your worthless offerings no more;

your incense is detestable to Me.

New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations—

I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.

¹⁴I hate your New Moons

and your appointed feasts.

They have become a burden to Me;

I am weary of bearing them.

¹⁵When you spread out your hands in prayer,

I will hide My eyes from you;

even though you multiply your prayers,

I will not listen.

Your hands are covered with blood.

¹⁶Wash and cleanse yourselves.

Remove your evil deeds from My sight.

Stop doing evil!

¹⁷Learn to do right;

seek justice and correct the oppressor.

Defend the fatherless

and plead the case of the widow.”

¹⁸“Come now, let us reason together,”

says the LORD.

“Though your sins are like scarlet,

they will be as white as snow;

though they are as red as crimson,

they will become like wool.

¹⁹If you are willing and obedient,

you will eat the best of the land.

²⁰But if you resist and rebel,

you will be devoured by the sword.”

For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

The Corruption of Zion

²¹See how the faithful city has become a harlot!

She once was full of justice;

righteousness resided within her,

but now only murderers!

²²Your silver has become dross;

your fine wine is diluted with water.

²³Your rulers are rebels,

friends of thieves.

They all love bribes

and chasing after rewards.

They do not defend the fatherless,

and the plea of the widow never comes before them.

²⁴Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts,

the Mighty One of Israel, declares:

“Ah, I will be relieved of My foes

and avenge Myself on My enemies.

²⁵I will turn My hand against you;

I will thoroughly purge your dross;

I will remove all your impurities.

²⁶I will restore your judges as at first,

and your counselors as at the beginning.

After that you will be called the City of Righteousness,

the Faithful City.”

²⁷Zion will be redeemed with justice,

her repentant ones with righteousness.

²⁸But rebels and sinners will together be shattered,

and those who forsake the LORD will perish.

²⁹Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks

in which you have delighted;

you will be embarrassed by the gardens

that you have chosen.

³⁰For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered,

like a garden without water.

³¹The strong man will become tinder

and his work will be a spark;

both will burn together,

with no one to quench the flames.

The Mountain of the House of the LORD

¹This is the message that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem:

²In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD

will be established as the chief of the mountains;

it will be raised above the hills,

and all nations will stream to it.

³And many peoples will come and say:

“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,

to the house of the God of Jacob.

He will teach us His ways

so that we may walk in His paths.”

For the law will go forth from Zion,

and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

⁴Then He will judge between the nations

and arbitrate for many peoples.

They will beat their swords into plowshares

and their spears into pruning hooks.

Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation,

nor train anymore for war.

The Day of Reckoning

⁵Come, O house of Jacob,

let us walk in the light of the LORD.

⁶For You have abandoned Your people,

the house of Jacob,

because they are filled

with influences from the east;

they are soothsayers like the Philistines;

they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

⁷Their land is full of silver and gold,

with no limit to their treasures;

their land is full of horses,

with no limit to their chariots.

⁸Their land is full of idols;

they bow down to the work of their hands,

to what their fingers have made.

⁹So mankind is brought low,

and man is humbled —

do not forgive them!

¹⁰Go into the rocks

and hide in the dust

from the terror of the LORD

and the splendor of His majesty.

¹¹The proud look of man will be humbled,

and the loftiness of men brought low;

the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

¹²For the Day of the LORD of Hosts

will come against all the proud and lofty,

against all that is exalted—

it will be humbled—

¹³against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up,

against all the oaks of Bashan,

¹⁴against all the tall mountains,

against all the high hills,

¹⁵against every high tower,

against every fortified wall,

¹⁶against every ship of Tarshish,

and against every stately vessel.

¹⁷So the pride of man will be brought low,

and the loftiness of men will be humbled;

the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,

¹⁸and the idols will vanish completely.

¹⁹Men will flee to caves in the rocks

and holes in the ground,

away from the terror of the LORD

and from the splendor of His majesty,

when He rises to shake the earth.

²⁰In that day men will cast away

to the moles and bats

their idols of silver and gold —

the idols they made to worship.

²¹They will flee to caverns in the rocks

and crevices in the cliffs,

away from the terror of the LORD

and from the splendor of His majesty,

when He rises to shake the earth.

²²Put no more trust in man,

who has only the breath in his nostrils.

Of what account is he?

The First Six Bowls of Wrath

¹Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out on the earth the seven bowls of God’s wrath.”

²So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and loathsome, malignant sores broke out on those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.

³And the second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it turned to blood like that of the dead, and every living thing in the sea died.

⁴And the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they turned to blood. ⁵And I heard the angel of the waters say:

“Righteous are You, O Holy One,

who is and was,

because You have brought these judgments.

⁶For they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets,

and You have given them blood to drink,

as they deserve.”

⁷And I heard the altar reply:

“Yes, Lord God Almighty,

true and just are Your judgments.”

⁸Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given power to scorch the people with fire. ⁹And the people were scorched by intense heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues. Yet they did not repent and give Him glory.

¹⁰And the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness, and men began to gnaw their tongues in anguish ¹¹and curse the God of heaven for their pains and sores. Yet they did not repent of their deeds.

¹²And the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East.

¹³And I saw three unclean spirits that looked like frogs coming out of the mouths of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet. ¹⁴These are demonic spirits that perform signs and go out to all the kings of the earth, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.

¹⁵“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed.”

¹⁶And they assembled the kings in the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.

The Seventh Bowl of Wrath

¹⁷Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came from the throne in the temple, saying, “It is done!”

¹⁸And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake the likes of which had not occurred since men were upon the earth — so mighty was the great quake. ¹⁹The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath.

²⁰Then every island fled, and no mountain could be found. ²¹And great hailstones weighing almost a hundred pounds each rained down on them from above. And men cursed God for the plague of hail, because it was so horrendous.