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Isaiah 64:7

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

No one worships in your name or remains faithful. You have turned your back on us and let our sins melt us away.

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Remember that you moulded me like a piece of clay. So don't turn me back into dust once again.

He made your children pay for their sins.

You know the LORD is God! He created us, and we belong to him; we are his people, the sheep in his pasture.

Won't you evil people learn? You refuse to pray, and you gobble up the LORD's people.

If you do, the Egyptians will say that you brought your people out here into the mountains just to get rid of them. Please don't be angry with your people. Don't destroy them!

“No matter how much you pray, I won't listen. You are too violent.

Yet if the vineyard depends on me for protection, it will become my friend and be at peace with me.

Israel, you have no right to argue with your Creator. You are merely a clay pot shaped by a potter. The clay doesn't ask, “Why did you make me this way? Where are the handles?”

I came and called out, but you didn't answer. Have I lost my power to rescue and save? At my command oceans and rivers turn into deserts; fish rot and stink for lack of water.

For a while, I turned away in furious anger. Now I will have mercy and love you for ever! I, your protector and LORD, make this promise.”

To them, I, the LORD, say: Respect the Sabbath, obey me completely, and keep our agreement.

Your greed made me furious. That's why I punished you and refused to be found, while you kept returning to your old sinful ways.

It disgusted him even more to learn that no one would do a thing about it. So with his own powerful arm, he won victories for truth.

Your sins are the roadblock between you and your God. That's why he doesn't answer your prayers or let you see his face.

You falsely accuse others and tell lies in court; sin and trouble are the names of your children.

Our ancestors Abraham and Jacob have both rejected us. But you are still our Father; you have been our protector since ancient times.

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

I looked for someone to defend the city and to protect it from my anger, as well as to stop me from destroying it. But I found no one.

Then set the empty pot over the hot coals until it is red-hot. That will clean the pot and burn off the rust.

Then I'll return to my temple until they confess their guilt and worship me, until they are desperate and beg for my help.

They don't really pray to me; they just howl in their beds. They have rejected me for Baal and slashed themselves, in the hope that Baal will bless their crops.

They are flames destroying their leaders. And their kings are powerless; none of them trust me.

I, the LORD All-Powerful, have something to say to you priests. Children respect their fathers, and servants respect their masters. I am your father and your master, so why don't you respect me? You priests have insulted me, and now you ask, “How did we insult you?”

Don't you know that we all have God as our Father? Didn't the one God create each of us? Then why do you cheat each other by breaking the agreement God made with your ancestors?




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