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Isaiah 1
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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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| 1:5
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. |
"I delight not in the
blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats."
Does God enjoy
burnt offerings? This verse says he doesn't, but the first nine chapters of Leviticus give detailed instructions for burning the
carcasses of dead animals for "a sweet savour unto the Lord."
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When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to
tread my courts?
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Bring 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. |
God has also
changed his mind about the sabbath. He used to demand that the sabbath be
observed and kill people who broke it (Num.15:32, 36),
but now "it is iniquity."
Is it necessary to keep the sabbath?
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| 1:14
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a
trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. |
Even God gets weary sometimes. But not according to Is.40:28.
Does God ever get tired?
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| 1:15
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. |
When God gets tired he no longer listens to prayers.
Does God help in times of need?
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| 1:16
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before
mine eyes; cease to do evil; |
(1:16-17) "Cease to do evil; learn to do well ... relieve the oppressed ... plead
for the widow."
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Learn to do well;
seek judgment, 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. |
"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. |
"If ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword."
Those who refuse to reason correctly will "be devoured with the sword."
"The mouth of the Lord"
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| 1:21
How 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: |
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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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| 1:28
And the destruction of the transgressors and of 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 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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