¹And you, though  ²dead in your  ³offenses and sins,

In which you once walked according to the  ¹age of this world, according to the  ²ruler of the authority of the air, of the  ³spirit which is now operating in the  ⁴sons of disobedience;

Among  ¹whom  ²we also all conducted ourselves once in the  ³lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature  ⁴children of wrath, even as the rest;

 ¹But God, being rich in  ²mercy, because of His  ³great love with which He loved us,

Even when we were dead in offenses, made us  ¹alive  ²together with  ³Christ (by  ⁴grace you have been  ⁵saved)

And  ¹raised us up  ²together with Him and  ³seated us together with Him in the  ⁴heavenlies  ⁵in Christ Jesus,

That He might  ¹display in the  ²ages to come the surpassing  ³riches of His grace in  ⁴kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

 ¹For by  ²grace you have been saved through  ³faith, and  ⁴this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God;

Not of works that no one should boast.

For we are His  ¹masterpiece,  ²created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared  ³beforehand in order that we would walk in them.

Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, those who are called  ¹uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision in the flesh made by hands,

That you were at that time  ¹apart from Christ, alienated from the  ²commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the  ³covenants of the promise, having  ⁴no hope and  ⁵without God in the  ⁶world.

 ¹But now in Christ Jesus you who were once  ²far off have become  ³near in the  ⁴blood of Christ.

For He Himself is  ¹our  ²peace, He who has made  ³both one and has broken down the middle  ⁴wall of partition, the  ⁵enmity,

 ¹Abolishing in His  ²flesh the  ³law of the commandments in  ⁴ordinances, that He might  ⁵create the two  ⁶in Himself  ⁷into  ⁸one new man, so  ⁹making peace,

And might reconcile  ¹both in  ²one Body to  ³God through the  ⁴cross, having  ⁵slain the enmity  ⁶by it.

And  ¹coming, He announced peace as the gospel to you who were  ²far off, and peace to those who were  ³near,

For  ¹through Him we both have  ²access  ³in one Spirit unto the  ⁴Father.

So then  ¹you are no longer  ²strangers and sojourners, but you are  ³fellow citizens with the saints and  ⁴members of the household of God,

Being  ¹built upon the  ²foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the  ³cornerstone;

In  ¹whom  ²all the building, being  ³fitted together, is  ⁴growing into a holy  ⁵temple  ⁶in the Lord;

In whom  ¹you  ²also are being built together into a  ³dwelling place of God in  ⁴spirit.

The vision of  ¹Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah:

Hear, O heavens, and hearken, O earth,
For Jehovah has spoken:
I have brought up  ¹children, and I have raised them;
And yet they have rebelled against Me.

The ox knows his owner,
And the donkey, his master's manger;
But Israel does not know,
My people do not much consider.

Alas, sinful nation,
A people heavy with iniquity,
Seed of evildoers,
Children acting corruptly!
They have forsaken Jehovah;
They have despised the Holy One of Israel;
They have become estranged and have gone backward.

 ¹Where will you be stricken again?
Will you continue your  ²apostasy?
The whole head has become sick,
And the whole heart faint;

From the sole of the foot even to the head,
There is no soundness in it,
Only bruises and blows
And raw wounds —
They have not been pressed out nor bound up
Nor softened with oil.

Your land is a desolation;
Your cities are burned with fire;
Your field — in your sight
Strangers devour it;
It is a desolation, like something overthrown by strangers.

And the daughter of Zion is left
Like a booth in a vineyard,
Like a hut in a cucumber field,
Like a besieged city.

Unless Jehovah  ¹of hosts
Had left to us a surviving few,
We would have been like Sodom,
We would have resembled Gomorrah.

Hear the word of Jehovah,
You rulers of Sodom;
Hearken to the instruction of our God,
You people of Gomorrah.

What is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?
Says Jehovah.
I have had My fill of burnt offerings of rams
And the fat of fed cattle;
The blood of bulls and lambs
And goats, I do not delight in.

When you come to appear before Me,
Who has required this of your hand,
To trample My courts?

Bring no more vain offerings;
Incense is an abomination to Me.
New moon and Sabbath, the calling of convocations —
I cannot bear iniquity and the solemn assembly.

Your new moons and your appointed feasts
My soul hates;
They have become a burden on Me;
I am weary of bearing them.

Thus, when you spread forth your hands,
I will hide My eyes from you;
Even though you multiply your prayers,
I will not hear.
Your hands are full of blood;

 ¹Wash yourselves; cleanse yourselves.
Turn away the evil of your deeds
From before My eyes.
Cease doing what is evil;

Learn to do good.
Seek justice;
Correct the ruthless.
Defend the orphan;
Plead for the widow.

Come now and let us reason together,
Says Jehovah.
Though your sins are like scarlet,
They will be as white as  ¹snow;
Though they are as red as crimson,
They will be like  ¹wool.

If you are willing and listen,
You will eat the good of the land;

But if you refuse and rebel,
You will be devoured by the sword;
For the mouth of Jehovah has spoken.

How the faithful city
Has become a harlot!
She who was full of justice,
She in whom righteousness once lodged,
But now murderers!

Your silver has become dross;
Your wine diluted with water;

Your rulers are rebellious
And companions of thieves;
They all love bribes
And chase after rewards;
They do not defend the orphan,
Nor does the widow's plea come before them.

Hence, the Lord Jehovah of hosts,
The Mighty One of Israel, declares:
Ah, I will ease Myself of My  ¹adversaries,
And I will avenge Myself of My  ¹enemies;

And I will turn My hand against you.
I will thoroughly purge away your dross as with lye,
And I will remove all your alloy.

And I will restore your judges as at the first
And your counselors as at the beginning.
Afterward you will be called the city of righteousness,
The faithful city.

Zion will be ransomed with justice,
And her returning ones with righteousness.

And there will be the shattering of rebels and sinners together,
And those who forsake Jehovah will meet their end.

For  ¹you will be ashamed of the  ²terebinths
That you have taken pleasure in;
And you will be embarrassed at the gardens
That you have chosen.

For you will be like a terebinth
Whose leaves are falling,
And like a garden
In which there is no water;

And the strong man will become  ¹tow,
And his work a spark;
And they will both burn together,
And there will be none to extinguish them.

The word which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:

But in the last days
The  ¹mountain of the house of Jehovah will be established
On the top of the mountains;
And it will be lifted up above the hills;
And all the nations will stream to it,

And many peoples will come and say,
Come and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah,
To the house of the God of Jacob,
That He may instruct us  ¹in His ways,
And that we may walk in His paths.
For from Zion will go forth  ²instruction,
And the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem;

And He will  ¹judge between the nations,
And will decide matters for many peoples.
And they will beat their swords into plowshares,
And their spears into pruning knives;
Nation will not lift up sword against nation,
Nor will they learn war anymore.

House of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of Jehovah.

For You have abandoned Your people,
The house of Jacob;
Because they are full of customs from the east,
And they are soothsayers like the Philistines,
And they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.

Their land is full of  ¹silver and gold,
And their treasures are limitless;
Their land is also full of horses,
And their chariots are limitless.

And their land is full of idols;
They bow down to the work of their hands,
To that which their fingers have made.

Thus the ordinary man is humbled, and the man of distinction is abased —
But do not forgive them.

Enter into the rock,
And hide in the dust,
From the dread of Jehovah,
And from the splendor of His majesty.

Man's  ¹haughty look will be abased,
And the loftiness of men will be humbled;
But Jehovah alone will be exalted
In that day.

For Jehovah of hosts will have a  ¹day
Over everything proud and lofty,
And over everything lifted up that it may be abased;

Over all the  ¹cedars of Lebanon,
Which are lofty and lifted up,
And over all the  ¹oaks of Bashan;

Over all the  ¹lofty mountains,
And over all the  ¹hills that are lifted up;

Over every high tower,
And over every fortified wall;

Over all the ships of Tarshish,
And over all their pleasant  ¹artifacts.

And the haughtiness of the ordinary man will be humbled,
And the loftiness of the men of distinction will be abased;
But Jehovah alone will be exalted
In that day.

And the idols will vanish completely.

And men will go into caves in the rocks
And into holes in the dust,
From the dread of Jehovah,
And from the splendor of His majesty,
When He arises to make the earth tremble.

In that day a man will cast
His idols of silver and his idols of gold,
Which they made for themselves to bow down to,
To the moles and to the bats,

So that they may go into the crevices of the rocks
And into the clefts of the cliffs,
From the dread of Jehovah,
And from the splendor of His majesty,
When He arises to make the earth tremble.

Stop regarding man,
Whose life breath is in his nostrils.
For of what value is he considered to be?

For now the Lord Jehovah of hosts
Is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah
Every kind of support —
All the support of bread
And all the support of water;

The mighty man and the man of war,
The judge and the prophet,
And the diviner and the elder;

The captain of fifty and the highly regarded;
And the counselor, the wise magician, and the knowledgeable enchanter.

And I will make youths their rulers,
And capriciousness will rule over them.

And the people will be oppressed, each by the other,
And each by his neighbor.
The youth will be arrogant to the elder,
And the contemned one to the one who is honored.

When a man takes hold of his brother
In his father's house and says,
You have clothing, you be our ruler,
And these ruins will be under your hand;

He will solemnly say,
I will not be the one who binds your wounds,
For in my house there is no food or clothing;
Do not appoint me as  ¹ruler of the people.

For Jerusalem stumbles,
And Judah falls,
Because their speech and their actions are against Jehovah,
To rebel against the eyes of His glory.

The countenance of their faces witnesses against them,
And they declare their sin like Sodom;
They do not hide it.
Woe to their soul!
For they have brought evil upon themselves.

Say to the righteous that it will go well with them,
For they will eat the fruit of their actions.

Woe to the wicked man! It will go badly with him;
For the result of his deeds will be done to him

My people — their oppressors are children,
And women rule over them.
O My people, those who lead you are leading you astray;
And the path for your ways they have hidden.

Jehovah stands firm to contend,
And He stands to judge the people.

Jehovah will enter into judgment
With the elders of His people and their rulers.
It is you who have consumed the vineyard;
The spoil of the poor is in your houses.

What do you mean by crushing My people
And grinding the faces of the poor?
Declares the Lord Jehovah of hosts.

Moreover Jehovah said,
Because the daughters of Zion are haughty,
And walk around with outstretched necks
And lusting eyes,
And trip along with quick, little steps,
And rattle the anklets on their feet;

The Lord will strike the scalp of the daughters of Zion with scabs,
And Jehovah will expose their secret parts.

In that day the Lord will remove the beauty of their anklets, headbands, and crescents;

The ear pendants, the bracelets, and the costly veils;

The headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the bottles of aromas, and the amulets;

The finger rings and the nose rings;

The formal gowns, the frocks, the wraps, and the purses;

The mirrors, the fine linen garments, the turbans, and the veils.

And instead of a sweet smell there will be rottenness;
And instead of a belt, an encircling rope;
Instead of well-set hair, baldness;
And instead of fine garments, the girding of oneself with sackcloth;
A brand instead of beauty.

Your men will fall by the sword,
And your mighty, in battle;

Then her gates will mourn and lament,
And she, being desolated, will sit on the ground.

And seven  ¹women will grasp
One man in that day,
Saying, We will eat our own bread
And wear our own clothes;
Just let us bear your name;
Take away our reproach.

In  ¹that day the  ²Shoot of Jehovah will be beauty and glory, and the fruit of the earth, excellence and splendor, to those of Israel who have escaped.

And he who is left over in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, everyone who has been written down in Jerusalem for life;

When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and has cleansed away the bloodstains of Jerusalem from her midst, by the  ¹judging Spirit and the burning Spirit.

Jehovah will create over the entire region of Mount Zion and over all her convocations a cloud of smoke by day, and the brightness of a fiery flame by night; for the glory will be a  ¹canopy over all.

And there will be a tabernacle as a daytime shade from the heat and as a refuge and a cover from storm and rain.

Let me sing of my Beloved,
A song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard.
My Beloved had a vineyard
On a  ¹fertile hill.

And He dug it up and cleared away its stones,
And He planted it with the choicest vine.
Then He built a tower in the middle of it,
And hewed out a wine vat in it.
And He looked for it to produce grapes,
But it produced only wild grapes.

So then, you inhabitants of Jerusalem
And you men of Judah,
Judge between Me
And My vineyard.

What more could I have done for My vineyard
That I have not already done for it?
Why then, when I looked for it to produce grapes,
Did it produce only wild grapes?

And now I will make known to you
What I will now do to My vineyard:
I will remove its hedge, and it will be consumed;
I will break down its wall, and it will become a trampled place.

And I will make it a waste;
It will not be pruned, nor will it be hoed;
But thorns and thistles will come on it.
And I will command the clouds
Not to rain upon it.

For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel,
And the men of Judah, the plant of His good pleasure;
And He expected justice, but instead, bloodshed!
He expected righteousness, but instead, an outcry of distress!

Woe to those who join house to house,
Who lay field to field,
Till there is no place left,
And you dwell alone in the midst of the land!

In my ears Jehovah of hosts has sworn:
Many houses shall indeed become desolate;
Great ones and fine ones shall be without inhabitants.

For ten acres of vineyard will produce a mere  ¹bath of wine,
And a  ²homer of seed will produce an  ³ephah of grain.

Woe to those who rise early in the morning
That they may run after liquor,
To those who linger into the evening
That wine may inflame them!

Lyre and harp, tambourine and flute,
And wine are the essence of their banquets;
And they do not consider what has been done by Jehovah,
Nor do they regard the work of His hands.

Hence, my people go into exile
For lack of knowledge;
Their  ¹nobility become famished men,
And their multitudes, parched with thirst.

Hence, Sheol enlarges its appetite
And opens its mouth wide, without limit,
And Jerusalem's splendor descends, and her din
And her uproar and the jubilant within her.

Thus the ordinary man is humbled, and the man of distinction is abased;
And the eyes of the haughty are abased;

But Jehovah of hosts is exalted in judgment,
And the holy God  ¹shows Himself  ²holy in righteousness.

Then lambs will graze there as in their pasture,
And strangers will eat the wastelands of  ¹fat men.

Woe to those who draw iniquity with ropes of vanity,
And sin as with cart ropes;

Who say, He should hurry up;
He should hasten His work,
So that we may see it;
And the counsel of the Holy One of Israel
Should draw near and happen,
So that we may know it!

Woe to those who call evil good,
And good evil;
Who put darkness for light,
And light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet,
And sweet for bitter!

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
And prudent in their own sight!

Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine,
And men of valor in mixing liquor;

Who acquit the criminal as a result of a bribe,
But refuse righteousness to the righteous!

Therefore as a tongue of fire consumes the stubble,
And the chaff sinks in flames,
Their root will be like decay,
And their bud will disappear like dust;
For they have rejected the instruction of Jehovah of hosts
And despised the speaking of the Holy One of Israel.

For this reason the anger of Jehovah burns against His people,
And He stretches out His hand over them and strikes them.
And the mountains quake, and their corpses are
Like garbage in the middle of the street.
In spite of all this His anger is not turned away;
Rather, His hand is still stretched out.

He also lifts up a standard to a distant  ¹nation,
And whistles to it from the ends of the earth;
And indeed it comes with swift speed.

None of them is weary, and none stumbles among them;
No one slumbers or sleeps;
And their belts are not loosened at their waists,
Nor are their sandal thongs broken.

The arrows of these are sharpened,
And all their bows are drawn;
The hooves of their horses are considered to be like flint,
And their chariot wheels like a whirlwind.

Their roar is like a lion's,
And they roar like young lions;
When they growl and seize prey,
They carry it away safe, and there is none to rescue it.

And they will growl over it in that day,
Like the roaring of the sea.
When one will look upon the land, indeed, there will be darkness and distress,
And the light will be darkened with its clouds.