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Isaiah 22:13

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

But instead, you celebrated by feasting on beef and lamb and by drinking wine, because you said, “Let's eat and drink! Tomorrow we may die.”

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Even when the wicked are treated with mercy in this land of justice, they do wrong and are blind to your glory, our LORD.

Jerusalem, city of David, the place of my altar, you are in for trouble! Celebrate your festivals year after year.

You think that you alone are all-powerful, that you won't be a widow or lose your children. All you care about is pleasure, but listen to what I say.

You are in for trouble! You get up early to start drinking, and you keep it up late into the night.

At your drinking parties you have the music of stringed instruments, tambourines, and flutes. But you never even think about all the LORD has done,

And you are great at drinking and mixing drinks. But you are in for trouble.

You say to each other, “Let's drink till we're drunk! Tomorrow we'll do it again. We'll really enjoy ourselves.”

You wonder why the LORD pays no attention when you go without eating and act humble. But on those same days that you give up eating, you think only of yourselves and abuse your workers.

They were arrogant and spoilt; they had everything they needed and still refused to help the poor and needy.

Israel, don't celebrate or make noisy shouts like other nations. You have been unfaithful to your God. Wherever grain is threshed, you behave like prostitutes because you enjoy the money you receive.

What do you think I gained by fighting wild animals in Ephesus? If the dead are not raised to life, “Let's eat and drink. Tomorrow we die.”

While here on earth, you have thought only of filling your own stomachs and having a good time. But now you are like fat cattle on their way to be butchered.




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