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Isaiah 1:29

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You will be made ashamed of those groves of trees where you worshipped idols.

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Then you will treat your idols of silver and gold like rubbish; you will throw them away like filthy rags.

The time is coming when you will throw away your idols of silver and gold, made by your sinful hands.

Everyone who worships idols as though they were gods will be terribly ashamed.

Anyone who makes idols will be confused and terribly disgraced.

All you think about is sex under those green trees where idols are worshipped. You sacrifice your children on altars built in valleys under rocky slopes.

They keep making me angry by sneering at me, while offering sacrifices to idols in gardens and burning incense to them on bricks.

Some of you get yourselves ready and go to a garden to worship a foreign goddess. You eat the meat of pigs, lizards, and mice. But I, the LORD, will destroy you for this.

Long ago you left me and broke all ties between us, refusing to be my servant. Now you worship other gods by having sex on hilltops or in the shade of large trees.

When Josiah was king, the LORD said: Jeremiah, the kingdom of Israel was like an unfaithful wife who became a prostitute on the hilltops and in the shade of large trees.

I will forgive you, but you will think about your sins and be too ashamed to say a word. I, the LORD God, have spoken.

You will remember your evil ways and hate yourselves for what you've done.

These people used to offer incense to idols at altars built on hills and mountaintops and in the shade of large oak trees. But when they see dead bodies lying around those altars, they will know that I am the LORD.

Assyria can't save us, and chariots can't help. So we will no longer worship the idols we have made. Our LORD, you show mercy to orphans.”

Israel, give up your idols! I will answer your prayers and take care of you. I am that glorious tree, the source of your fruit.

You offer sacrifices on mountaintops and hills, under oak trees, and wherever good shade is found. Your own daughters and daughters-in-law sell themselves for sex.

And so you will be swept away in a whirlwind for sacrificing to idols.

But what good did you receive from the things you did? All you have to show for them is your shame, and they lead to death.




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