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Isaiah 1:1 504 Isaiah 2:3

you, make you cleane: take away the euill of
your workes from before mine eyes: cease to doe
The Book of the Prophet Isaiah euill. 17 Learne to doe well: seeke iudgement,
relieue the oppressed: iudge the fatherlesse and

1 A vision of Isaiah, the sonne of Amoz, which defend the widowe. 18 Come nowe, and let vs
he sawe concerning Iudah and Ierusalem: in reason together, sayth the Lord: though your
the dayes of Vzziah, Iotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah sinnes were as crimsin, they shalbe made white
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Kings of Iudah. Heare, O heauens, and hearken, as snowe: though they were red like skarlet, they
O earth: for the Lord hath sayde, I haue nour- shalbe as wooll. 19 If ye consent and obey, ye shall
ished and brought vp children, but they haue re- eate the good things of the land. 20 But if ye refuse
belled against me. The oxe knoweth his owner, and be rebellious, ye shalbe deuoured with the
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and the asse his masters crib: but Israel hath not sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
knowen: my people hath not vnderstand. 4 Ah, 21 Howe is the faithfull citie become an harlot? it
sinfull nation, a people laden with iniquitie: a was full of iudgement, and iustice lodged therein,
seede of the wicked, corrupt children: they haue but now they are murtherers. 22 Thy siluer is
forsaken the Lord: they haue prouoked the holy become drosse: thy wine is mixt with water.
one of Israel to anger: they are gone backewarde. 23 Thy Princes are rebellious and companions of
5 Wherefore shoulde ye be smitten any more? theeues: euery one loueth giftes, and followeth
for ye fall away more and more: the whole head after rewards: they iudge not the fatherlesse,
is sicke, and the whole heart is heauie. 6 From neither doeth the widowes cause come before
the sole of the foote vnto the head, there is them. 24 Therefore sayth the Lord God of hostes,
nothingwholetherein, butwounds, andswelling, the mightie one of Israel, Ah, I will ease me
and sores full of corruption: they haue not of mine aduersaries, and auenge me of mine
bene wrapped, nor bound vp, nor mollified with enemies. 25 Then I will turne mine hand vpon
oyle. 7 Your land is waste: your cities are burnt thee, and burne out thy drosse, till it be pure, and
with fire: strangers deuoure your lande in your take away all thy tinne. 26 And I will restore thy
presence, and it is desolate like the ouerthrowe iudges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at the
of strangers. 8 And the daughter of Zion shall beginning: afterward shalt thou be called a citie
remaine like a cotage in a vineyarde, like a lodge of righteousnes, and a faithfull citie. 27 Zion shall
in a garden of cucumbers, and like a besieged be redeemed in iudgement, and they that returne
citie. 9 Except the Lord of hostes had reserued in her, in iustice. 28 And the destruction of the
vnto vs, euen a small remnant: we should haue transgressers and of the sinners shalbe together:
bene as Sodom, and should haue bene like vnto and they that forsake the Lord, shalbe consumed.
Gomorah. 10 Heare the worde of the Lord, O 29 For they shalbe confounded for the okes, which
princes of Sodom: hearken vnto the Law of our ye haue desired, and ye shall be ashamed of the
God, O people of Gomorah. 11 What haue I to doe gardens, that ye haue chosen. 30 For ye shalbe
with the multitude of your sacrifices, sayth the as an oke, whose leafe fadeth: and as a garden
Lord? I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, that hath no water. 31 And the strong shall be
and of the fat of fed beasts: and I desire not the as towe, and the maker thereof, as a sparke: and
blood of bullocks, nor of lambs, nor of goates. they shall both burne together, and none shall
12 When ye come to appeare before me, who quench them.
required this of your hands to tread in my courts?
13 Bring no more oblations, in vaine: incense is an 2
abomination vnto me: I can not suffer your newe 1 The worde that Isaiah the sonne of Amoz
moones, nor Sabbaths, nor solemne dayes (it is sawe vpon Iudah and Ierusalem. 2 It shall be in
iniquitie) nor solemne assemblies. 14 My soule the last dayes, that the mountaine of the house
hateth your newe moones and your appointed of the Lord shalbe prepared in the top of the
feastes: they are a burden vnto me: I am weary mountaines, and shall be exalted aboue the hilles,
to beare them. 15 And when you shall stretch and all nations shall flowe vnto it. 3 And many
out your hands, I wil hide mine eyes from you: people shall go, and say, Come, and let vs go
and though ye make many prayers, I wil not vp to the mountaine of the Lord, to the house
heare: for your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash of the God of Iaakob, and hee will teach vs his