Today's Bible Passage is "Isaiah Chapter 1"
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1:1 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.
1:2 Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: I have
nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
1:3 The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but
Israel doesn’t know, my people don’t consider.
1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed of
evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They
have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
1:5 Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The
whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
1:6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in
it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, neither
bandaged, neither soothed with oil.
1:7 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.
1:8 The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a
hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.
1:9 Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we
would have been as Sodom; we would have been like Gomorrah.
1:10 Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of
our God, you people of Gomorrah!
1:11 “What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?,” says Yahweh.
“I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed
animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male
goats.
1:12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your
hand, to trample my courts?
1:13 Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new
moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t bear with evil assemblies.
1:14 My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a
burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.
1:15 When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you.
Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full
of blood.
1:16 Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your
doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
1:17 Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the
fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
1:18 “Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your
sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red
like crimson, they shall be as wool.
1:19 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the
land;
1:20 but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword;
for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
1:21 How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of
justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
1:22 Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.
1:23 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.
1:24 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;
1:25 and I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross,
and will take away all your tin.
1:26 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.’
1:27 Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with
righteousness.
1:28 But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be
together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.
1:29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and
you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.
1:30 For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that
has no water.
1:31 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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