Isaiah 1:22-23 Your silver is become dross, your wine mixed with water:… "Thy wine is mixed with water" — that sounds like a compromise. Thy wine diluted; it is the corruption of the ideal. "Thy princes are rebellions" — that is the corruption of government. "Everyone loveth gifts and followeth after rewards" — that is the corruption of justice. "They, judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them" — that is the corruption of the tenderest ties of the heart. Do you see where you begin? You begin by mixing wine and water, you begin by illicit compromise, by lowering and corrupting the ideal, and you end in cruelty, you forget God, then the ideal is forgotten, then yourself is forgotten, you forget your neighbour, and the cause of the widow makes no appeal to you. (J. H. Jowett, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:WEB: Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water. |
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