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Isaiah 5:24

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will become like something rotten and their blossoms will blow away like dust, for they have rejected the instruction of the  Lord of Armies, and they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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Therefore the Holy One of Israel says: ‘Because you have rejected this message and have trusted in oppression and deceit, and have depended on them,


His roots below dry up, and his branches above wither away.


His winnowing shovel  is in his hand to clear his threshing-floor and gather the wheat into his barn,  but the chaff he will burn with fire that never goes out.’


They bound on the tops of the mountains. Their sound is like the sound of chariots, like the sound of fiery flames consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for war.


Look, they are like stubble; fire burns them. They cannot rescue themselves from the power of the flame. This is not a coal for warming themselves, or a fire to sit beside!


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


You overthrew your adversaries by your great majesty. You unleashed your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.


Consequently, anyone who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.


Look, you scoffers, marvel and vanish away, because I am doing a work in your days, a work that you will never believe, even if someone were to explain it to you.’  ,


The one who rejects me   and doesn’t receive my sayings has this as his judge:   The word I have spoken will judge him on the last day.


Whoever listens to you listens to me.   Whoever rejects you rejects me.   And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.’


But since the Pharisees and experts in the law  had not been baptised by him, they rejected the plan of God for themselves.  )


His winnowing shovel is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing-floor and gather his wheat into the barn. But the chaff he will burn with fire that never goes out.’


‘For look, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘not leaving them root or branches.


For they will be consumed like entangled thorns, like the drink of a drunkard and like straw that is fully dry.


Yet I destroyed the Amorite  as Israel advanced; his height  was like the cedars, and he was as sturdy as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit  above and his roots beneath.


Ephraim  is struck down; their roots are withered; they cannot bear fruit. Even if they bear children, I will kill the precious offspring of their wombs.


So I am like rot to Ephraim and like decay to the house of Judah.


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?


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.


Because these people rejected the slowly flowing water of Shiloah and rejoiced with   Rezin and the son of Remaliah,


But they were disobedient and rebelled against you. They flung your law behind their backs and killed your prophets who warned them in order to turn them back to you. They committed terrible blasphemies.


Samuel replied to Saul, ‘I will not return with you. Because you rejected the word of the Lord,  the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.’


For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and defiance is like wickedness  and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the  Lord, he has rejected you as king.


Who is it you mocked and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!


Oh sinful nation, people weighed down with iniquity, brood of evildoers, depraved children! They have abandoned  the  Lord; they have despised  the Holy One of Israel; they have turned their backs on him.


The strong one will become tinder, and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to extinguish the flames.


the chief city of Ephraim is Samaria, and the chief of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all.


For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes thorns and briars and kindles the forest thickets so that they go up in a column of smoke.


The land is scorched by the wrath of the  Lord of Armies, and the people are like fuel for the fire. No one has compassion on his brother.


Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants have become guilty; the earth’s inhabitants have been burned, and only a few survive.


Lord, your hand is lifted up to take action, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame. Let fire consume your adversaries.


I will not vent the full fury of my anger; I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim. For I am God and not man, the Holy One among you; I will not come in rage.


So the people scattered throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.


The Lord will turn the rain of your land into falling  dust; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.


His roots are intertwined around a pile of rocks. He looks for a home among the stones.


Therefore, this is what the Lord God says; ‘Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire as fuel, so I will give up the residents of Jerusalem.


The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Judah for three crimes, even four, because they have rejected the instruction of the  Lord and have not kept his statutes. The lies  that their ancestors followed have led them astray.





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