Isaiah 1:1-20 (6th Hour)
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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 has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against Me;
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- the ox knows its owner and the donkey its master’s crib; but Israel does not know, my people do not consider.”
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- Alas, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked to anger the Holy One of Israel, they have turned away backward.
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- Why should you be stricken again? You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faints.
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- From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores; they have not been closed or bound up, or soothed with ointment.
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- Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; strangers devour your land in your presence; and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
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- So the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a hut in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
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- Unless the Lord of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been made like Gomorrah.
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- Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah:
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- “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?” says the Lord. “I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed cattle. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs or goats.
- 12
- “When you come to appear before Me, who has required this from your hand, to trample My courts?
- 13
- Bring no more futile sacrifices; incense is an abomination to Me. The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies – I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting.
- 14
- Your New Moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; they are a trouble to Me, I am weary of bearing them.
- 15
- When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
- 16
- “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil,
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- learn to do good; seek justice, rebuke the oppressor; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.
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- “Come now, and let us reason together,” says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
- 19
- If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;
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- but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword”; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.