11/13/14 (2236) ISAIAH 1:1-31 (NAB) The Book of Judgment Indictment of Israel and Judah Israels Sinfulness. The vision which Isaiah, son of Amoz, had concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth, for the LORD speaks: Sons have I raised and reared, but they have disowned me! An ox knows its owner, and an ass, its masters manger; But Israel does not know my people has not understood. Ah! sinful nation, people laden with wickedness, evil race, corrupt children! They have forsaken the LORD, spurned the Holy One of Israel, apostatized. Where would you yet be stuck, you that rebel again and again? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot to the head there is no sound spot: Wound and welt and gaping gash, not drained, or bandaged, or eased with salve. Your country is waste, your cities burnt with fire; Your land before your eyes strangers devour [a waste, like Sodom overthrown] And daughter Zion is left like a hut in a vineyard, Like a shed in a melon patch, like a city blockaded. Unless the LORD of hosts had left us a scanty remnant, We had become as Sodom, we should be like Gomorrah. Hear the word of the LORD, princes of Sodom! Listen to the instruction of our God, people of Gomorrah! What care I for the number of your sacrifices? says the LORD. I have had enough of whole burnt rams and fat of fatlings; In the blood of calves, lambs and goats I find no pleasure.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 04:26:14 +0000
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