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The vision of Isaiah◦ the son of Amoz, which he beheld concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah◦, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah▫, kings of Judah.
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Hear, O ye heavens! And give··ear, O earth! For Jehovah speaks; I have caused sons to grow··up, and have lifted· them ·up; but they have transgressed against◦ Me.
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An ox knows his owner*, and a donkey the crib of his master; Israel does· not ·know; My people do not understand.
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Woe to the sinning nation, a people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers for corrupt sons! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have disdained the Holy··One of Israel; they have become··strangers, turning away backward.
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On· what ·account should you still be smitten? You again turn··aside. All the head is sick, and all the heart infirm.
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From the sole of the foot even to◦ the head there is no integrity in it; it is a wound, and a bruise, and a recent blow◦; they have not been compressed, nor bound··up, nor softened with oil.
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Your land is desolate; your cities are burnt··up with fire; your ground, strangers devour her before you; and it is desolate, as overturned by strangers.
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And the daughter of Zion remains, as a shelter in a vineyard, as a place to pass··the··night among◦ the cucumbers, as a city besieged.
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Unless▵ Jehovah of Armies had caused a few survivors to remain to us, we would have become as Sodom, we would have been··like Gomorrah.
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Hear ye the Word of Jehovah, O ye captains of Sodom! Give··ear to the law of our God, O ye people of Gomorrah!
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For what is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me? says Jehovah. I am··satiated with the burnt··offerings of rams, and with the fat of fatlings; and in the blood of bullocks, and of lambs, and of he-goats, I delight not.
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When◦ you come to see My face, who has sought this from your hands, to trample My courts?
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Bring not again a vain gift··offering; as for incense, it◦ is an abomination to Me; the new··moon* and Sabbath, the convoking of the convocation, I am· not ·able to bear*; it is iniquity◦, even▵ the day of restraint*.
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Your new··moons and your solemnities My soul hates; they are an encumbrance on Me; I am··weary of bearing them.
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And when you spread the palms of your hands, I will hide◦ My eyes from you; even when you multiply prayers, nothing will I◦ hear; your hands are··full of bloods*.
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Bathe, purify▵ yourselves; put··aside the evil of your actions from in··front··of My eyes; forbear to do··evil;
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learn to do··good; inquire after judgment; make··happy the oppressed; judge for the orphan; plead for the widow.
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Go now◦, and let us dispute*, says Jehovah; though your sins be as scarlet twice-dyed, they shall be··white as snow; though they be··red as crimson*, they shall be as wool.
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If you are··willing and hearken, you shall eat the goodness of the land;
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but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of Jehovah has spoken.
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How◦ has the faithful city◦ become a harlot! She who was full of judgment, justice lodged in her, but now murderers.
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Thy silver has become dross; thine unmixed··wine is mixed◦ with waters;
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thy princes are defiant and friends of thieves; everyone of them loves a bribe and pursues payments; they judge not for the orphan, and the plea of the widow comes not to them.
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Therefore the Lord says◦, Jehovah of Armies, the Powerful··One of Israel, Woe! I will be comforted of My adversaries, and I will be avenged of My enemies;
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and I will return My hand over thee, and will refine, as with soap, thy dross; and I will remove all thy tin.
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And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning; and after this thou◦ shalt be called the City of Justice, the Faithful City◦.
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Zion shall be redeemed◦ in judgment, and those returning with her in justice.
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And the breaking of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together; and they who forsake Jehovah shall all· be ·consumed.
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For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired; and you shall blush for the gardens which you have chosen.
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For you shall be as an oak with its leaves fading, and as a garden for which there are no waters.
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And the secure◦ shall become as tow*, and his work as a spark; and the two of them shall burn together, and none shall quench.
