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Isaiah 5:13

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Therefore my people will go into exile because they lack knowledge; her  dignitaries are starving, and her masses are parched with thirst.

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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.


The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s feeding trough, but Israel does not know; my people do not understand.’


When its branches dry out, they will be broken off. Women will come and make fires with them, for they are not a people with understanding. Therefore their Maker  will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not be gracious to them.


And because they did not think it worth while to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a corrupt mind so that they do what is not right.


Your land is desolate, your cities burned down; foreigners devour your fields right in front of you – a desolation, like a place demolished by foreigners.


They deliberately overlook this: By the word of God  the heavens came into being long ago and the earth was brought about from water and through water.


Those slain by the sword are better off than those slain by hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.


If I go out to the field, look #– #those slain by the sword! If I enter the city, look #– #those ill  from famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.


Their nobles send their servants  for water. They go to the cisterns; they find no water; their containers return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.


Even storks in the sky know their seasons. Turtledoves, swallows, and cranes are aware of their migration, but my people do not know the requirements of the  Lord.


They will crush you and your children among you to the ground,   and they will not leave one stone on another   in your midst, because you did not recognise the time when God visited you.’


In that day the beautiful young women, the young men also, will faint from thirst.


In the ninth year of Hoshea,  the king of Assyria captured Samaria. He deported  the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, along the Habor (Gozan’s river), and in the cities of the Medes.


Note this: The Lord God of Armies is about to remove from Jerusalem and from Judah every kind of security: the entire supply of bread and water,


commanders of fifty and dignitaries, counsellors, cunning magicians,  and necromancers.


The Lord of Armies planned it, to desecrate all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the honoured ones of the earth.


No one comes to his senses; no one has the perception or insight to say, ‘I burned half of it in the fire, I also baked bread on its coals, I roasted meat and ate. Should I make something detestable  with the rest of it? Should I bow down to a block of wood? ’


Then you will say within yourself, “Who fathered these for me? I was deprived of my children and unable to conceive, exiled and wandering – but who brought them up? See, I was left by myself – but these, where did they come from? ” ’


Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: ‘Look! My servants will eat, but you will be hungry. Look! My servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Look! My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.


The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is on her whole crowd.


The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.





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