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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: Children I have reared, and brought up, 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 evil-doers, children that deal corruptly;
they have forsaken the LORD, they have contemned the Holy One of Israel, they are turned away backward.
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- On what part will ye yet be stricken, seeing ye stray away 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 festering sores: they have not been pressed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil.
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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 floods.
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- And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth 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, 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 trample My courts?
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- Bring no more vain oblations;
it is an offering of abomination unto Me; new moon and sabbath, the holding of convocations - I cannot endure iniquity along with the solemn assembly.
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- Your new moons and your appointed seasons My soul hateth;
they are a burden unto Me; I am weary to bear them.
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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.
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- Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before Mine eyes, cease to do evil;
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- Learn to do well;
seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
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- Come 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.
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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.
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- How is the faithful city become a harlot!
She that was full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, 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 bribes, 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;
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- And I will turn My hand upon thee, and purge away thy dross as with lye, and will take away all thine alloy;
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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 justice, and they that return of her with righteousness.
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- But the destruction of the transgressors and the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
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- For they shall be ashamed of the terebinths 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 a terebinth whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
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- And the strong shall be as tow, and his work as a spark;
and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
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