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Isaiah 1:25

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I will punish you terribly and burn away everything that makes you unfit to worship me.

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As far as you are concerned, all evil people are rubbish, and so I follow your rules.

Your silver is fake, and your wine is watered down.

There's only one-way that Israel's sin and guilt can be completely forgiven: they must crush the stones of every pagan altar and place of worship.

after the LORD sends a fiery judgment to clean the city and its people of their violent deeds.

Silver can be purified in a fiery furnace, but my people are too wicked to be made pure, and so I have rejected them.

Everyone takes advantage of everyone else, and no one will admit that I am God.

And so I will purify the hearts of my people just as gold is purified in a furnace. I have no other choice.

I will separate the sinful rebels from the rest of you, and even though I will bring them from the nations where they live in exile, they won't be allowed to return to Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

So I am going to bring them together in Jerusalem.

I will be like a metalworker who collects that metal from the furnace and melts it down. I will collect the Israelites and blow on them with my fiery anger. They will melt inside the city of Jerusalem

like silver in a furnace. Then they will know that I, the LORD, have punished them in my anger.

When that time comes, you won't rebel against me and be put to shame. I'll do away with those who are proud and arrogant. Never will any of them strut around on my holy mountain.

The LORD will purify the descendants of Levi, as though they were gold or silver. Then they will bring the proper offerings to the LORD,

His threshing fork is in his hand, and he is ready to separate the wheat from the husks. He will store the wheat in a barn and burn the husks in a fire that never goes out.

Tell the heavens to celebrate and all gods to bow down to the LORD, because he will take revenge on those hateful enemies who killed his people. He will forgive the sins of Israel and purify their land.

I correct and punish everyone I love. So make up your minds to turn away from your sins.




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