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Isaiah - ch 1 v 1 - 20
- The vision of Isaias the son of Amos I which he saw concerning Juda and Jerusalem in the days of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda
- Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have despised me.
- The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.
- Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards.
- For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.
- From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no soundness therein: wounds and bruises and swelling sores: they are not bound up, nor dressed, nor fomented with oil.
- Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your country strangers devour before your face, and it shall be desolate as when wasted by enemies.
- And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in a vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and as a city that is laid waste.
- Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrha.
- Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.
- To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.
- When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?
- Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination tome. The new moons, and the sabbaths, and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.
- My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.
- And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.
- Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely,
- Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.
- And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.
- if you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.
- But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
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