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Isaiah 7:13

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Isaiah  said, ‘Listen, house of David! Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men? Will you also try the patience of my God?

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You have not bought me aromatic cane with silver, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me  with your iniquities.


You have wearied the Lord   with your words. Yet you ask, ‘How have we wearied him? ’ When you say, ‘Everyone who does what is evil is good in the Lord’s sight, and he is delighted with them,  or else where is the God of justice? ’


Isn’t it enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of the pasture with your feet? Or isn’t it enough that you drink the clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?


Didn’t you walk in their ways and do their detestable practices? It was only a short time before all your ways were more corrupt than theirs.


But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. So he became their enemy and fought against them.


When it became known to the house of David  that Aram had occupied Ephraim,  the heart of Ahaz  and the hearts of his people trembled like trees of a forest shaking in the wind.


for forty years. Therefore I was provoked to anger with that generation and said, ‘They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.’


Listen and testify  against the house of Jacob – this is the declaration of the Lord God, the God of Armies.


‘ “You even took your sons and daughters you bore to me and sacrificed them to these images as food.  Wasn’t your prostitution enough?


House of David, this is what the Lord says: Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from his oppressor, or my anger will flare up like fire and burn unquenchably because of your evil deeds.


But I am full of the  Lord’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. Pour it out on the children in the street, on the gathering of young men as well. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old with the very old.


Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you. I will praise your name, for you have accomplished wonders, plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.


Therefore the Lord God of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: ‘Ah, I will get even with my foes; I will take revenge against my enemies.


but for the sake of the covenant the Lord had made with David, he was unwilling to destroy the house of David since the Lord had promised  to give a lamp  , to David and to his sons for ever.


Is it not enough that you brought us up from a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness?  Do you also have to appoint yourself as ruler over us?


Isn’t it enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the Israelite community to bring you near to himself,  to perform the work at the Lord’s tabernacle, and to stand before the community to minister to them?


But Leah replied to her, ‘Isn’t it enough that you have taken my husband? Now you also want to take my son’s mandrakes? ’ ‘Well then,’ Rachel said, ‘he can sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.’


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


He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,


I hate your New Moons and prescribed festivals. They have become a burden to me; I am tired of putting up with them.


But Ahaz replied, ‘I will not ask. I will not test the Lord.’


I will place the key  of the house of David on his shoulder; what he opens, no one can close; what he closes, no one can open.


The Lord can no longer bear your evil deeds and the detestable acts you have committed,  so your land has become a waste, a desolation, and an example for cursing, without inhabitant, as you see today.


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.





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