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Isaiah 1:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Listen, heavens, and pay attention, earth, for the Lord has spoken: ‘I have raised children  and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.

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Pay attention, heavens, and I will speak; listen, earth, to the words from my mouth.


I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life  so that you and your descendants may live,


Listen, all you peoples; pay attention, earth  and everyone in it! The Lord God will be a witness against you, the Lord, from his holy temple.


I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will quickly perish  from the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not live long there, but you will certainly be destroyed.


‘A son honours his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is my honour? And if I am a master, where is your fear of me?  says the Lord of Armies to you priests, who despise my name.’ Yet you ask, ‘How have we despised your name? ’


As for me, however, I am filled with power by the Spirit of the  Lord, with justice and courage, to proclaim to Jacob his rebellion and to Israel his sin.


Listen to this message that the Lord has spoken against you, Israelites, against the entire clan that I brought from the land of Egypt:


therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God. This is what the Lord God says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become plunder  and a mockery to the rest of the nations all around.


Earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the  Lord!


Listen, earth! I am about to bring disaster on these people, the fruit of their own plotting, for they have paid no attention to my words. They have rejected my instruction.


I spread out my hands all day long to a rebellious people who walk in the path that is not good, following their own thoughts.


They are a rebellious people, deceptive children, children who do not want to listen to the  Lord’s instruction.


Woe to the rebellious children! This is the  Lord’s declaration. They carry out a plan,  but not mine; they make an alliance, but against my will, piling sin on top of sin.


They will come weeping, but I will bring them back with consolation.  , I will lead them to wadis filled with water, by a smooth way where they will not stumble, for I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is my firstborn.


Listen and pay attention. Do not be proud, for the Lord has spoken.


And you saw in the wilderness how the Lord your God carried you as a man carries his son all along the way you travelled until you reached this place.


for we are unable to stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.’


Return to the one the Israelites have greatly rebelled against.


You nations, come here and listen; you peoples, pay attention! Let the earth and all that fills it hear, the world and all that comes from it.


Yet you are our Father, even though Abraham does not know us and Israel doesn’t recognise us. You, Lord, are our Father; your name is Our Redeemer from Ancient Times.


Return, you faithless children. I will heal your unfaithfulness. ‘Here we are, coming to you, for you are the  Lord our God.


Now speak a parable  to the rebellious house. Tell them, “This is what the Lord God says: Put the pot  on the fire – put it on, and then pour water into it!


He abandoned the Lord God of his ancestors  and did not walk in the ways of the Lord.


The word of the Lord that came  to Micah  the Moreshite   #– #what he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem in the days of Jotham,  Ahaz,  and Hezekiah,  kings of Judah.





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