---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Isaiah from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 1
verse_count: 31
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Isaiah, chap. 1, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Isaiah 1

*Judah's rebellion—Promises and threatenings.*

**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 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.
**11** To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifies 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 ye, make you clean; 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;
**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 a 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 ine 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 counsellors as at the beginning; 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.
**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.