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Isaiah - ch 1 v 21 - 31
- How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
- Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.
- Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
- Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: "Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself of my enemies;
- and I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.
- I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called 'The city of righteousness, a faithful town.'
- Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.
- But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.
- For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.
- For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.
- The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. They will both burn together, and no one will quench them."
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