Isaiah · Brenton's English Septuagint
Isaiah 1 Brenton's English Septuagint
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- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
1 The vision which Esaias the son of Amos saw, which he saw against Juda and against Jerusalem, in the reign of Ozias, and Joatham, and Achaz, and Ezekias, who reigned over Judea.
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.
2 Hear, O heaven, and hearken, O earth: for the Lord has spoken, [saying], I have begotten and reared up children, but they have rebelled against me.
2 Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel does not know me, and the people has not regarded me.
3 The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”
4 Ah sinful nation, a people full of sins, an evil seed, lawless children: ye have forsaken the Lord, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
4 Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
5 Why should ye be smitten [any] more, transgressing more and more? the whole head is pained, and the whole heart sad.
5 Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6 From the feet to the head, there is no soundness in them; neither wound, nor bruise, nor festering ulcer [are healed]: it is not possible to apply a plaister, nor oil, nor bandages.
6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.
7 Your land is desolate, your cities burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is made desolate, overthrown by strange nations.
7 Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
8 The daughter of Sion shall be deserted as a tent in a vineyard, and as a storehouse of fruits in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
8 The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.
9 And if the Lord of Sabaoth had not left us a seed, we should have been as Sodoma, and we should have been made like to Gomorrha.
9 Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom. We would have been like Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodoma; attend to the law of God, thou people of Gomorrha.
10 Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
11 Of what [value] to me is the abundance of your sacrifices? saith the Lord: I am full of whole-burnt-offerings of rams; and I delight not in the fat of lambs, and the blood of bulls and goats:
11 “What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
12 neither shall ye come [with these] to appear before me; for who has required these things at your hands? Ye shall no more tread my court.
12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
13 Though ye bring fine flour, [it is] vain; incense is an abomination to me; I cannot bear your new moons, and your sabbaths, and the great day;
13 Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations— I can’t stand evil assemblies.
14 [your] fasting, and rest from work, your new moons also, and your feasts my soul hates: ye have become loathsome to me; I will no more pardon your sins.
14 My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.
15 When ye stretch forth your hands, I will turn away mine eyes from you: and though ye make many supplications, I will not hearken to you; for your hands are full of blood.
15 When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash you, be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before mine eyes; cease from your iniquities;
16 Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
17 learn to do well; diligently seek judgment, deliver him that is suffering wrong, plead for the orphan, and obtain justice for the widow.
17 Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
18 And come, let us reason together, saith the Lord: and though your sins be as purple, I will make them white as snow; and though they be as scarlet, I will make [them] white as wool.
18 “Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 And if ye be willing, and hearken to me, ye shall eat the good of the land:
19 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;
20 but if ye be not willing, nor hearken to me, a sword shall devour you: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.
20 but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword; for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.”
21 How has the faithful city Sion, [once] full of judgment, become a harlot! wherein righteousness lodged, but now murderers.
21 How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice. Righteousness lodged in her, but now there are murderers.
22 Your silver is worthless, thy wine merchants mix the wine with water.
22 Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.
23 Thy princes are rebellious, companions of thieves, loving bribes, seeking after rewards; not pleading for orphans, and not heeding the cause of widows.
23 Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
24 Therefore thus saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, Woe to the mighty [men] of Israel; for my wrath shall not cease against mine adversaries, and I will execute judgment on mine enemies.
24 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: “Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself on my enemies.
25 And I will bring my hand upon thee, and purge thee completely, and I will destroy the rebellious, and will take away from thee all transgressors.
25 I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.
26 And I will establish thy judges as before, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: and afterward thou shalt be called the city of righteousness, the faithful mother-city Sion.
26 I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness, a faithful town.’
27 For her captives shall be saved with judgment, and with mercy.
27 Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.
28 And the transgressors and the sinners shall be crushed together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be utterly consumed.
28 But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.
29 For they shall be ashamed of their idols, which they delighted in, and they are made ashamed of the gardens which they coveted.
29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.
30 For they shall be as a turpentine tree that has cast its leaves, and as a garden that has no water.
30 For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.
31 And their strength shall be as a thread of tow, and their works as sparks, and the transgressors and the sinners shall be burnt up together, and there shall be none to quench [them].
31 The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. They will both burn together, and no one will quench them.”
Cross references (31)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Chronicles 26:1–32:33; 2 Kings 18:1–20:21
- 2 Deuteronomy 32:1; Deuteronomy 30:19; Micah 1:2; Deuteronomy 4:26; Psalm 50:4
- 3 Jeremiah 8:7; Jeremiah 4:22; Isaiah 44:18; Isaiah 5:12; Matthew 13:13–15
- 4 Isaiah 5:24; Jeremiah 2:17; Jeremiah 2:13; Romans 8:7; Isaiah 5:19
- 5 Daniel 9:8–11; Ezekiel 24:13; Jeremiah 5:3; Revelation 16:8–11; Zephaniah 3:1–4
- 6 Jeremiah 6:14; Jeremiah 33:6; Matthew 9:12; Psalm 77:2; Job 5:18
- 7 Deuteronomy 28:43; Lamentations 5:2; Deuteronomy 28:33; Hosea 7:9; Ezekiel 30:12
- 8 Zechariah 9:9; John 12:15; Zechariah 2:10; Isaiah 62:11; Isaiah 10:32
- 9 Romans 9:29; Isaiah 37:31–32; Genesis 19:24; Lamentations 3:22; Romans 11:4–6
- 10 Revelation 11:8; Ezekiel 16:49; Deuteronomy 32:32; Isaiah 3:9; Jeremiah 23:14
- 11 1 Samuel 15:22; Amos 5:21; Jeremiah 6:20; Isaiah 66:3; Micah 6:7
- 12 Exodus 34:23; Psalm 40:6; Isaiah 58:1–2; Exodus 23:17; Ecclesiastes 5:1
- 13 Isaiah 66:3; Malachi 1:10; Matthew 15:9; Ezekiel 20:39; Lamentations 2:6
- 14 Amos 5:21; Isaiah 43:24; Isaiah 7:13; Isaiah 61:8; Malachi 2:17
- 15 Micah 3:4; Isaiah 59:2–3; Proverbs 1:28; Zechariah 7:13; Jeremiah 7:8–10
- 16 Isaiah 55:6–7; 1 Peter 3:11; 1 Peter 2:1; 2 Corinthians 7:1; James 4:8
- 17 Micah 6:8; Jeremiah 22:3; Psalm 82:3–4; Proverbs 31:9; Isaiah 1:23
- 18 Isaiah 44:22; Revelation 7:14; Psalm 51:7; Micah 7:18–19; Isaiah 43:24–26
- 19 Deuteronomy 30:15–16; Isaiah 3:10; Joel 2:26; Hebrews 5:9; Isaiah 55:6–7
- 20 Isaiah 65:12; Isaiah 58:14; Numbers 23:19; Isaiah 40:5; Isaiah 3:11
- 21 Zechariah 8:3; Zephaniah 3:1–3; Ezekiel 22:1–23; Isaiah 48:2; Micah 3:2–3
- 22 Lamentations 4:1–2; Jeremiah 6:28–30; Ezekiel 22:18–22; Hosea 4:18; 2 Corinthians 2:17
- 23 Micah 7:3; Zechariah 7:10; Exodus 23:8; Luke 18:2–5; Acts 4:5–11
- 24 Isaiah 60:16; Isaiah 49:26; Deuteronomy 28:63; Isaiah 61:2; Ezekiel 5:13
- 25 Malachi 3:3; Isaiah 1:22; Jeremiah 9:7; Isaiah 4:4; Ezekiel 20:38
- 26 Jeremiah 33:7; Zechariah 8:3; Isaiah 62:1–2; Isaiah 32:1–2; Numbers 12:3
- 27 Isaiah 62:12; Isaiah 63:4; Isaiah 5:16; Isaiah 45:21–25; Romans 3:24–26
- 28 2 Thessalonians 1:8–9; Psalm 1:6; Revelation 21:8; Job 31:3; Isaiah 30:13
- 29 Isaiah 65:3; Isaiah 57:5; Isaiah 66:17; Hosea 4:13; Ezekiel 16:63
- 30 Jeremiah 17:5–6; Isaiah 5:6; Jeremiah 31:12; Isaiah 58:11; Ezekiel 17:24
- 31 Isaiah 66:24; Malachi 4:1; Ezekiel 32:21; Isaiah 34:9–10; Revelation 19:20
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
And if ye be willing and obey Me, ye shall eat the good of the land; but if ye refuse, and will not hearken unto Me, the sword shall devour you, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken these things." Desiring, therefore, that all His beloved should be partakers of repentance, He has, by His almighty will, established [these …
He spoke as from their person: "Except the Lord had left us a seed, we should have been as Sodom and Gomorrah." For Sodom and Gomorrah are related by Moses to have been cities of ungodly men, which God burned with fire and brimstone, and overthrew, no one of their inhabitants being saved except a certain stranger, a Chaldæan by …
He says: "Hear, O heavens; and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken." And again: "Thus saith the Lord God, who made the heaven, and stretched it out; who established the earth, and the things in it; and who giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them who walk therein."
… for the prophets often show that this same Lord of ours might have been their Father also, if they had not strayed from His commandments: as, for instance, we have that statement, "I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me;" and that other, "I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
And the city, too, it is said, shall be called "the city of righteousness, the faithful city Sion." And yet we nowhere find that the city was called "righteousness," but it continued to be called Jerusalem.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)