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Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick,
and the whole heart faint.
6
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.
8
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.
9
Except the L
ORD
of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as
Sodom,
and
we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
10
Hear the word of the L
ORD
, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people
of Gomorrah.
11
To what purpose
is
the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the L
ORD
: 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.
12
When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your
hand, to tread my courts?
13
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.
14
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble
unto me; I am weary to bear
them.
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.
16
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease
to do evil;
17
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for
the widow.
18
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the L
ORD
: though your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19
If ye be
willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
20
But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be
devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the L
ORD
hath spoken
it.
21
How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it;
but now murderers.
22
Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
23
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.
24
Therefore saith
the Lord, the L
ORD
of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and
avenge me of mine enemies:
25
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.
27
Zion shall be redeemed with
judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
28
And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners
shall be
together, and they that
forsake the L
ORD
shall be consumed.
29
For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired,
and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
30
For ye shall be as an oak whose
leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
31
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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