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ISAIAH
- I cannot endure iniquity along with the solemn assembly.
- 14Your new moons and your appointed seasons
- My soul hateth;
- They are a burden unto Me;
- I am weary to bear them.
- 15And 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.
- 16Wash you, make you clean,
- Put away the evil of your doings
- From before Mine eyes,
- Cease to do evil;
- 17Learn to do well;
- Seek justice, relieve the oppressed,
- Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
- 18Come 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.
- 19If ye be willing and obedient,
- Ye shall eat the good of the land;
- 20But if ye refuse and rebel,
- Ye shall be devoured with the sword;
- For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken.
- 21How is the faithful city
- Become a harlot!
- She that was full of justice,
- Righteousness lodged in her,
- But now murderers.
- 22Thy silver is become dross,
- Thy wine mixed with water.
- 23Thy princes are rebellious,
- And companions of thieves;
- Every one loveth bribes,
- And followeth after rewards;
- They judge not the fatherless,
- Neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
- 24Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts,
- The Mighty One of Israel:
- Ah, I will ease Me of Mine adversaries,
- And avenge Me of Mine enemies;
- 25And I will turn My hand upon thee,
- And purge away thy dross as with lye,
- And will take away all thine alloy;
- 26And 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.
- 27Zion shall be redeemed with justice,
- And they that return of her with righteousness.
- 28But the destruction of the transgressors and the sinners shall be together,
- And they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
- 29For they shall be ashamed of the terebinths which ye have desired,
- And ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
- 30For ye shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fadeth,
- And as a garden that hath no water.
- 31And the strong shall be as tow,
- And his work as a spark;
- And they shall both burn together,
- And none shall quench them.
2The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
- 2And it shall come to pass in the end of days,
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