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Isaiah 59:13

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

transgression and deception against the  Lord, turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lying words from the heart.

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And the tongue is a fire. The tongue, a world of unrighteousness, is placed  among our members. It stains the whole body,  sets the course of life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.


Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away  from the living God.


Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.


They claim to know God,  but they deny him by their works.  They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.


But whoever denies me before others,   I will also deny him before my Father in heaven.


Ephraim surrounds me with lies, the house of Israel, with deceit. Judah still wanders with God and is faithful to the holy ones.


Woe to them,  for they fled from me; destruction to them, for they rebelled against me! Though I want to redeem them, they speak lies against me.


But they, like Adam,  have violated the covenant; there they have betrayed me.


When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, he said this to him: Go and marry a woman of promiscuity, and have children of promiscuity, for the land is committing blatant acts of promiscuity by abandoning the  Lord.


‘But you say, “The Lord’s way isn’t fair.”  Now listen, house of Israel: Is it my way that is unfair? Instead, isn’t it your ways that are unfair?


Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are taken captive,  how I was crushed by their promiscuous hearts that turned away from me and by their eyes that lusted after their idols.  They will loathe themselves because of the evil things they did,  their detestable actions of every kind.


You have gone astray at the cost of your lives  because you are the ones who sent me to the Lord your God, saying, “Pray to the Lord our God on our behalf, and as for all that the Lord our God says, tell it to us, and we’ll act accordingly.”


‘I will make a permanent covenant with them:  I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put fear of me in their hearts so that they will never again turn away from me.


Lord, the hope of Israel, all who abandon you will be put to shame. All who turn away from me will be written in the dirt, for they have abandoned the Lord, the fountain of living water.


But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and have gone away.


However, as a woman may betray her lover, so you have betrayed  me, house of Israel. This is the  Lord’s declaration.


Yet in spite of all this, her treacherous sister Judah didn’t return to me with all her heart   #– #only in pretence.’ This is the Lord’s declaration.


For my people have committed a double evil: They have abandoned me, the fountain of living water, and dug cisterns for themselves #– # cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.


Who was it you dreaded and feared, so that you lied and didn’t remember me or take it to heart? I have kept silent for a long time, haven’t I?  , So you do not fear me.


You have never heard; you have never known; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew that you were very treacherous, and were known as a rebel from birth.


For a fool speaks foolishness and his mind plots iniquity. He lives in a godless way and speaks falsely about the  Lord. He leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.


Return to the one the Israelites have greatly rebelled against.


For the vineyard of the  Lord of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men  of Judah, the plant he delighted in. He expected justice but saw injustice; he expected righteousness but heard cries of despair.


Otherwise, I might have too much and deny you,  saying, ‘Who is the  Lord? ’ or I might have nothing and steal, profaning  the name of my God.


And Joshua said to all the people, ‘You see this stone #– #it will be a witness against us,  for it has heard all the words the Lord said to us, and it will be a witness against you, so that you will not deny your God.’


this would also be an iniquity deserving punishment, for I would have denied God above.


Woe  to those enacting crooked statutes and writing oppressive laws


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,


They seek me day after day and delight to know my ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not abandon the justice of their God. They ask me for righteous judgements; they delight in the nearness of God.’


At that time, when you call, the  Lord will answer; when you cry out, he will say, “Here I am.” If you get rid of the yoke among you, the finger-pointing and malicious speaking,


‘If you avoid desecrating the Sabbath, from doing whatever you want on my holy day; if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy day of the  Lord  honourable; if you honour it, not going your own ways, seeking your own pleasure, or talking business;  ,


My inheritance has behaved towards me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against me. Therefore, I hate her.


Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does anyone plough there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood   –


The men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have also broken your skull.


Have you not brought this on yourself by abandoning the  Lord your God while he was leading you along the way?


when I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim  and the crimes of Samaria will be exposed. For they practise fraud; a thief breaks in; a raiding party pillages outside.





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