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| 1:1 |
The vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
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| 1:2 |
Hear, O heavens! Listen, O earth! For the LORD has spoken: "I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.
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| 1:3 |
The ox knows his master, the donkey his owner's manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand."
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| 1:4 |
Ah, sinful nation, a people loaded with guilt, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the LORD; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him.
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| 1:5 |
Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted.
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| 1:6 |
From the sole of your foot to the top of your head there is no soundness-- only wounds and welts and open sores, not cleansed or bandaged or soothed with oil.
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| 1:7 |
Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.
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| 1:8 |
The Daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a city under siege.
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| 1:9 |
Unless the LORD Almighty had left us some survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.
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| 1:10 |
Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
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| 1:11 |
"The multitude of your sacrifices-- what are they to me?" says the LORD. "I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
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| 1:12 |
When you come to appear before me, who has asked this of you, this trampling of my courts?
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| 1:13 |
Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations-- I cannot bear your evil assemblies.
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| 1:14 |
Your New Moon festivals and your appointed feasts my soul hates. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.
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| 1:15 |
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you; even if you offer many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood;
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| 1:16 |
wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight! Stop doing wrong,
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| 1:17 |
learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.
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| 1:18 |
"Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.
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| 1:19 |
If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best from the land;
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| 1:20 |
but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword." For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
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| 1:21 |
See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her-- but now murderers!
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| 1:22 |
Your silver has become dross, your choice wine is diluted with water.
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| 1:23 |
Your rulers are rebels, companions of thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow's case does not come before them.
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| 1:24 |
Therefore the Lord, the LORD Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: "Ah, I will get relief from my foes and avenge myself on my enemies.
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| 1:25 |
I will turn my hand against you; I will thoroughly purge away your dross and remove all your impurities.
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| 1:26 |
I will restore your judges as in days of old, your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City."
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| 1:27 |
Zion will be redeemed with justice, her penitent ones with righteousness.
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| 1:28 |
But rebels and sinners will both be broken, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.
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| 1:29 |
"You will be ashamed because of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen.
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| 1:30 |
You will be like an oak with fading leaves, like a garden without water.
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| 1:31 |
The mighty man will become tinder and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the fire."
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