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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.
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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.
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The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth
not know, my people doth not consider.
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Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers,
children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have
provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
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Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the
whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of
our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
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To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices 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.
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When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to
tread my courts?
1:13Bring 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.
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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.
(1:15) "When ye spread
forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many
prayers, I will not hear." Does God help in times of need?
(1:16-17) "Cease to do evil; learn to do well ... relieve the oppressed ... plead
for the widow."
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Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before
mine eyes; cease to do evil;
1:17Learn to do well;
seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless,
plead for the widow.
1:18Come 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.
(1:18) "Come now, let us reason together."
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If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
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But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the
mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
(1:20a) "If ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword."
(1:20b) "The mouth of the Lord"
(1:21) "How is the faithful city become an harlot."
1:21How is the faithful city become an harlot it was full of judgment;
righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
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Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
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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.
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Therefore 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:
(1:24) "I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies."
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And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and
take away all thy tin:
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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.
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Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
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And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be
together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
(1:28) "The destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be
together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed."
(1:29) "Ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen." (God hates gardeners.)
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For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall
be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
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For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no
water.
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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.
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