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Isaiah 43:27

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Your first father sinned, and your mediators have rebelled against me.

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The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it like this. But what will you do at the end of it?


Even these stagger because of wine and stumble under the influence of beer: Priest and prophet stagger because of beer. They are confused by wine. They stumble because of beer. They are muddled in their visions. They stumble in their judgements.


You are to say, “This is what the Lord God says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hethite.


Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man,  and death through sin,  in this way death spread to all people,  because all sinned.


‘You stiff-necked  people with uncircumcised hearts and ears!  You are always resisting the Holy Spirit. As your ancestors did, you do also.


In the same way the chief priests, with the scribes and elders,  mocked him and said,


When daybreak came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put him to death.


Leave them alone! They are blind guides.   And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.’


‘Since the days of your ancestors, you have turned from my statutes; you have not kept them.  Return to me,  and I will return to you,’  says the Lord of Armies. Yet you ask, ‘How can we return? ’


Her leaders issue rulings for a bribe, her priests teach for payment, and her prophets practise divination for silver. Yet they lean on the  Lord, saying, ‘Isn’t the Lord   among us? No disaster will overtake us.’


My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you  from serving as my priest. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your sons.


Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the  Lord our God, both we and our ancestors, from the time of our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the  Lord our God.’


Youths oppress my people, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders mislead you; they confuse the direction of your paths.


And here you, a brood of sinners, stand in your ancestors’ place adding even more to the Lord’s burning anger against Israel.


The head is the elder, the honoured one; the tail is the prophet, the one teaching lies.


The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a hut. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again.


For the Lord has poured out on you an overwhelming urge to   sleep; he has shut your eyes (the prophets) and covered your heads (the seers).


This is what the Lord says: Where is your mother’s divorce certificate that I used to send her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was sent away because of your transgressions.


Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave birth to you. When I called him, he was only one; I blessed him and made him many.


‘Cry out loudly, don’t hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Tell my people their transgression and the house of Jacob their sins.


‘How can you claim, “We are wise; the law of the Lord is with us”? In fact, the lying pen of scribes has produced falsehood.


The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and snared. They have rejected the word of the  Lord, so what wisdom do they really have?





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