71 Days of Isaiah Plan

¹These are the visions that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. He saw these visions during the years when Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were kings of Judah.

²Listen, O heavens! Pay attention, earth! This is what the LORD says: “The children I raised and cared for have rebelled against me.

³Even an ox knows its owner, and a donkey recognizes its master’s care — but Israel doesn’t know its master. My people don’t recognize my care for them.”

⁴Oh, what a sinful nation they are — loaded down with a burden of guilt. They are evil people, corrupt children who have rejected the LORD. They have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him.

⁵Why do you continue to invite punishment? Must you rebel forever? Your head is injured, and your heart is sick.

⁶You are battered from head to foot — covered with bruises, welts, and infected wounds — without any soothing ointments or bandages.

⁷Your country lies in ruins, and your towns are burned. Foreigners plunder your fields before your eyes and destroy everything they see.

⁸Beautiful Jerusalem stands abandoned like a watchman’s shelter in a vineyard, like a lean-to in a cucumber field after the harvest, like a helpless city under siege.

⁹If the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had not spared a few of us, we would have been wiped out like Sodom, destroyed like Gomorrah.