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# Isaiah 1 (New King James Version)
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Judah Called to Repentance
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##### Chapter 1
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###### 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.The Wickedness of Judah
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###### 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth!
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For the Lord has spoken:
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"I have nourished and brought up children,
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And they have rebelled against Me;
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###### 3 The ox knows its owner
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And the donkey its master's crib;
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_But_ Israel does not know,
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My people do not consider."
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###### 4 Alas, sinful nation,
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A people laden with iniquity,
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A brood of evildoers,
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Children who are corrupters!
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They have forsaken the Lord,
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They have provoked to anger
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The Holy One of Israel,
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They have turned away backward.
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###### 5 Why should you be stricken again?
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You will revolt more and more.
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The whole head is sick,
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And the whole heart faints.
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###### 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head,
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_There is_ no soundness in it,
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_But_ wounds and bruises and putrefying sores;
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They have not been closed or bound up,
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Or soothed with ointment.
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###### 7 Your country _is_ desolate,
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Your cities _are_ burned with fire;
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Strangers devour your land in your presence;
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And _it is_ desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
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###### 8 So the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard,
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As a hut in a garden of cucumbers,
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As a besieged city.
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###### 9 Unless the Lord of hosts
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Had left to us a very small remnant,
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We would have become like Sodom,
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We would have been made like Gomorrah.
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###### 10 Hear the word of the Lord,
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You rulers of Sodom;
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Give ear to the law of our God,
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You people of Gomorrah:
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###### 11 "To what purpose _is_ the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?"
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Says the Lord.
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"I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
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And the fat of fed cattle.
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I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
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Or of lambs or goats.
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###### 12 "When you come to appear before Me,
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Who has required this from your hand,
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To trample My courts?
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###### 13 Bring no more futile sacrifices;
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Incense is an abomination to Me.
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The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies--
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I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting.
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###### 14 Your New Moons and your appointed feasts
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My soul hates;
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They are a trouble to Me,
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I am weary of bearing _them._
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###### 15 When you spread out your hands,
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I will hide My eyes from you;
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Even though you make many prayers,
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I will not hear.
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Your hands are full of blood.
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###### 16 "Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean;
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Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes.
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Cease to do evil,
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###### 17 Learn to do good;
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Seek justice,
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Rebuke the oppressor;
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Defend the fatherless,
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Plead for the widow.
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###### 18 "Come now, and let us reason together,"
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Says the Lord,
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"Though your sins are like scarlet,
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They shall be as white as snow;
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Though they are red like crimson,
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They shall be as wool.
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###### 19 If you are willing and obedient,
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You shall eat the good of the land;
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###### 20 But if you refuse and rebel,
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You shall be devoured by the sword";
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For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.The Degenerate City
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###### 21 How the faithful city has become a harlot!
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It was full of justice;
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Righteousness lodged in it,
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But now murderers.
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###### 22 Your silver has become dross,
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Your wine mixed with water.
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###### 23 Your princes _are_ rebellious,
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And companions of thieves;
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Everyone loves bribes,
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And follows after rewards.
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They do not defend the fatherless,
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Nor does the cause of the widow come before them.
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###### 24 Therefore the Lord says,
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The Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel,
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"Ah, I will rid Myself of My adversaries,
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And take vengeance on My enemies.
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###### 25 I will turn My hand against you,
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And thoroughly purge away your dross,
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And take away all your alloy.
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###### 26 I will restore your judges as at the first,
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And your counselors as at the beginning.
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Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city."
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###### 27 Zion shall be redeemed with justice,
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And her penitents with righteousness.
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###### 28 The destruction of transgressors and of sinners _shall be_ together,
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And those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
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###### 29 For they shall be ashamed of the terebinth trees
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Which you have desired;
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And you shall be embarrassed because of the gardens
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Which you have chosen.
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###### 30 For you shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fades,
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And as a garden that has no water.
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###### 31 The strong shall be as tinder,
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And the work of it as a spark;
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Both will burn together,
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And no one shall quench _them._
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