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Isaiah 1
Book of Isaiah
Historically, Isaiah disappears from view
after delivering the great prophecy of the Babylonian Servitude
(2 Kings 20:16-18 and Isaiah 39).
This was in the year 603 B.C., after
Hezekiah's illness at the close of the siege of Jerusalem by
Sennacherib in Hezekiah's fourteenth year.
We have thus two fixed dates, and between them a period of
forty-six years, during which, undoubtedly, "the Word of God
came" through Isaiah, and "God spake" by him.
Though this period was covered and overlapped by the Prophet's
life, it was not the whole of the period covered by the
"vision", which goes far beyond the prediction of the Babylonish
Captivity. Hezekiah lived for fifteen years after his illness,
dying therefore in 588 B. C. Manasseh, his son, born in the
third of the fifteen added years, succeeded in the same year
(588 B.C.).
2 Kings 20:16 And Isaiah said unto
Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord.
17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and
that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day,
shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the
Lord.
Isaiah 1:1 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.
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Isaiah = the salvation of God
2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth:
for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up
children, and they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass
his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not
consider.
4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with
iniquity, a seed of evil doers, children that are corrupters:
they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of
Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye
will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole
heart faint.
6 From the sole of the foot even unto the
head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and
putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up,
neither mollified with ointment.
7 Your country is desolate, your cities
are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your
presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a
cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a
besieged city.
9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto
us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we
should have been like unto Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of
Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
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Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of
Sodom
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Ye people of Gomorrah.
11 To what purpose is the multitude of
your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of 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.
12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at
your hand, to tread my courts?
13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto
me; the new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I
cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they
are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes
from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your
hands are full of blood.
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings
from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
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Put away the evil of your doings from before
mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment,
relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the
widow.
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though
your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though
they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the
land:
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As long as you do things God's ways
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Notice the condition = If ye be willing
and obedient
20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be
devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken
it.
21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of
judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every
one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not
the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto
them.
24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of
hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine
adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy
dross, and take away all thy tin:
26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy
counsellers as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called,
The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
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Who does this?
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God
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Afterward thou shalt be called, The city of
righteousness, the faithful city
27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment,
and her converts with righteousness.
28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners
shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be
consumed.
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Thank the Lord, The evil rulers will be consumed
29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks
which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the
gardens that ye have chosen.
30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden
that hath no water.
31 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.
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