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16 Wash yourselves, make yourselves pure, || Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before My eyes, || Cease to do evil, learn to do good. 17 Seek judgment, make the oppressed blessed, || Judge the fatherless, strive [for] the widow. 18 Now come, and we settle this,” says YHWH, “If your sins are as scarlet, they will be white as snow, || If they are red as crimson, they will be as wool! 19 If you are willing, and have listened, || The good of the land you consume, 20 And if you refuse, and have rebelled, || You are consumed [by] the sword,” || For the mouth of YHWH has spoken. 21 How has a faithful city become a harlot? I have filled it [with] judgment, || Righteousness lodges in it—now murderers. 22 Your silver has become dross, || Your drink defiled with water. 23 Your princes [are] apostates, and companions of thieves, || Everyone loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, || They do not judge the fatherless, || And the plea of the widow does not come to them. 24 Therefore—a declaration of the Lord—YHWH of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: “Oh, I relieve Myself from My adversaries, || And avenge Myself against My enemies, 25 And I turn back My hand on you, || And I refine your dross as purity, || And I turn aside all your tin, 26 And I give back your judges as at the first, || And your counselors as in the beginning, || After this you are called, A city of righteousness—a faithful city.” 27 Zion is redeemed in judgment, || And her captivity in righteousness. 28 And the destruction of transgressors and sinners [is] together, || And those forsaking YHWH are consumed. 29 For [men] are ashamed because of the oaks || That you have desired, || And you are confounded because of the gardens || That you have chosen. 30 For you are as an oak whose leaf is fading, || And as a garden that has no water. 31 And the strong has been for tow, || And his work for a spark, || And both of them have burned together, || And there is none quenching! Isaiah 1:16-31, Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press.
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