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Isaiah 1:4

New American Bible - revised edition

Ah! Sinful nation, people laden with wickedness, evil offspring, corrupt children! They have forsaken the Lord, spurned the Holy One of Israel, apostatized,

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Therefore, as the tongue of fire licks up stubble, as dry grass shrivels in the flame, Their root shall rot and their blossom scatter like dust; For they have rejected the instruction of the Lord of hosts, and scorned the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Has not forsaking the Lord, your God, done this to you?

Two evils my people have done: they have forsaken me, the source of living waters; They have dug themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

For the concern of the flesh is hostility toward God; it does not submit to the law of God, nor can it;

When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Are they really offending me—oracle of the Lord—or rather themselves, to their own disgrace?

Your own wickedness chastises you, your own infidelities punish you. Know then, and see, how evil and bitter is your forsaking the Lord, your God, And your showing no fear of me, oracle of the Lord, the God of hosts.

Who say, “Let him make haste, let him speed his work, that we may see it; On with the plan of the Holy One of Israel! let it come to pass, that we may know it!”

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his body, which is the church,

Or are we provoking the Lord to jealous anger? Are we stronger than he? Seek the Good of Others.

You serpents, you brood of vipers, how can you flee from the judgment of Gehenna?

“Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.

Prostitutes usually receive gifts. But you bestowed gifts on all your lovers, bribing them to come to you for prostitution from every side.

For Israel and Judah are not left widowed by their God, the Lord of hosts, Even though the land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

Call archers out against Babylon, all who bend the bow; Encamp around them; let no one escape. Repay them for their deeds; what they have done, do to them, For they insulted the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

Yet they have not listened to me nor have they paid attention; they have stiffened their necks and done worse than their ancestors.

How well you pick your way when seeking love! In your wickedness, you have gone by ways unclean!

You people of this generation, consider the word of the Lord: Have I become a wilderness to Israel, a land of gloom? Why then do my people say, “We have moved on, we will not come to you any more”?

thus says the Lord: What fault did your ancestors find in me that they withdrew from me, Went after emptiness, and became empty themselves?

A people who provoke me continually to my face, Offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on bricks,

That all may see and know, observe and understand, That the hand of the Lord has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it.

When you winnow them, the wind shall carry them off, the storm shall scatter them. But you shall rejoice in the Lord; in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.

Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you maggot Israel; I will help you—oracle of the Lord; the Holy One of Israel is your redeemer.

Whom have you insulted and blasphemed, at whom have you raised your voice And lifted up your eyes on high? At the Holy One of Israel!

For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: By waiting and by calm you shall be saved, in quiet and in trust shall be your strength. But this you did not will.

For this is a rebellious people, deceitful children, Children who refuse to listen to the instruction of the Lord;

The lowly shall again find joy in the Lord, the poorest rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

You will never be together with them in the grave, For you have ruined your land, you have slain your people! Let him never be named, that offshoot of evil!

Against an impious nation I send him, and against a people under my wrath I order him To seize plunder, carry off loot, and to trample them like the mud of the street.

Jerusalem has stumbled, Judah has fallen; for their speech and deeds affront the Lord, a provocation in the sight of his majesty.

Your princes are rebels and comrades of thieves; Each one of them loves a bribe and looks for gifts. The fatherless they do not defend, the widow’s plea does not reach them.

You are their majestic strength; by your favor our horn is exalted.

How often they rebelled against God in the wilderness, grieved him in the wasteland.

They were not to be like their ancestors, a rebellious and defiant generation, A generation whose heart was not constant, and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

No, you freely engage in crime; your hands dispense violence to the earth.

Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord, “We have sinned against you, for we have abandoned our God and served the Baals.”

The Lord saw and was filled with loathing, provoked by his sons and daughters.

The Lord said to Moses, Soon you will be at rest with your ancestors, and then this people will prostitute themselves by following the foreign gods among whom they will live in the land they are about to enter. They will forsake me and break the covenant which I have made with them.

and they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods whom they did not know and whom he had not apportioned to them.

And now here you are, offspring of sinful stock, rising up in your ancestors’ place to add still more to the Lord’s blazing anger against the Israelites.

Now the inhabitants of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.

for her sins are piled up to the sky, and God remembers her crimes.

Shout with exultation, City of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel!

We have greatly offended you, not keeping the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances you entrusted to your servant Moses.

That I may praise you with the lyre for your faithfulness, my God, And sing to you with the harp, O Holy One of Israel!

Rebels and sinners together shall be crushed, those who desert the Lord shall be consumed.

For wickedness burns like fire, devouring brier and thorn; It kindles the forest thickets, which go up in columns of smoke.

Yet he too is wise and will bring disaster; he will not turn from his threats. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against those who help evildoers.

Because of their wicked avarice I grew angry; I struck them, hiding myself from them in wrath. But they turned back, following the way of their own heart.

They seek me day after day, and desire to know my ways, Like a nation that has done what is just and not abandoned the judgment of their God; They ask of me just judgments, they desire to draw near to God.

But you who forsake the Lord, who forget my holy mountain, Who spread a table for Fortune and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny,

It is you who have disowned me—oracle of the Lord— turned your back upon me; I stretched out my hand to destroy you, because I was weary of relenting.

for all the evil the Israelites and Judahites have done to provoke me—they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

in order to catch the hearts of the house of Israel, estranged from me because of all their idols.

Yes, you are truly the daughter of your mother who rejected her husband and children: you are truly a sister to your sisters who rejected their husbands and children—your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

The curse and the oath written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, were poured out over us for our sins, because all Israel transgressed your law and turned aside, refusing to hear your voice.

And those who have turned away from the Lord, and those who have not sought the Lord, who have not inquired of him.

Then the Lord said to Moses: Go down at once because your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly.

Yet his degenerate children have treated him basely, a twisted and crooked generation!

He abandoned the Lord, the God of his ancestors, and did not walk in the way of the Lord.

Once Rehoboam had established himself as king and was firmly in charge, he abandoned the law of the Lord, and so did all Israel with him.

He did what was right in the Lord’s sight, just as his father Uzziah had done, though he did not enter the temple of the Lord. The people, however, continued to act corruptly.

Again and again they tested God, provoked the Holy One of Israel.

They turned disloyal, faithless like their ancestors; they proved false like a slack bow.

Ah! Rebellious children, oracle of the Lord, Who carry out a plan that is not mine, who make an alliance I did not inspire, thus adding sin upon sin;




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