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Isaiah 57:6

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Your portion is among the smooth stones of the wadi; indeed, they are your lot. You have even poured out a drink offering to them; you have offered a grain offering; should I be satisfied with these?

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Indifferent to  her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones  and trees.


The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven,  , and they pour out drink offerings to other gods so that they provoke me to anger.


Woe to him who says to wood: Wake up! or to mute stone: Come alive! Can it teach? Look! It may be plated with gold and silver, yet there is no breath  in it at all.


‘ “As for you, house of Israel, this is what the Lord God says: Go and serve your idols, each of you. But afterwards you will surely listen to me, and you will no longer defile my holy name with your gifts and idols.


The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come and set this city on fire. They will burn it, including the houses where incense has been burned to Baal on their rooftops and where drink offerings have been poured out to other gods to anger me.


The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become impure like that place Topheth #– #all the houses on whose rooftops they have burned incense to all the stars in the sky  and poured out drink offerings to other gods.” ’


Should I not punish them for these things? This is the  Lord’s declaration. Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?


Should I not punish them for these things? This is the  Lord’s declaration. Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?


Should I not punish them for these things? This is the  Lord’s declaration. Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?


One person slaughters an ox, another kills a person; one person sacrifices a lamb, another breaks a dog’s neck; one person offers a grain offering, another offers pig’s blood; one person offers incense, another praises an idol – all these have chosen their ways and delight in their abhorrent practices.


But you who abandon the  Lord, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,





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