Isaiah 1:19–27
19If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;↗
20but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword; for the LORD’s mouth has spoken it.”↗
21How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice. Righteousness lodged in her, but now there are murderers.↗
22Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.↗
23Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.↗
24Therefore the Lord, GOD of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: “Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself on my enemies.↗
25I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.↗
26I 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.’↗
27Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.↗
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