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Isaiah 1:28

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But all criminals and sinners will be destroyed. (They are the people that don’t follow the Lord.)

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“And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father. Serve God with a pure heart. Be happy in your heart (mind) to serve God. Why? Because the Lord knows what is in every person’s heart (mind). The Lord understands everything you think. If you go to the Lord for help, you will get an answer. But if you turn away from the Lord, he will leave you forever.

Since that time and until now the country of Edom has been rebellious against Judah. The people from the town of Libnah also turned against Jehoram. This happened because Jehoram left the Lord God. He is the God Jehoram’s ancestors {\cf2\super [246]} followed.

He offered sacrifices {\cf2\super [327]} to the gods the people of Damascus worshiped. The people of Damascus had defeated Ahaz. So he thought to himself, “The gods the people of Aram worship helped them. So if I offer sacrifices to those gods, maybe they will help me also.” Ahaz worshiped those gods. In this way he sinned, and he made the people of Israel sin.

God sends trouble and ruin\par to wicked people,\par and disaster to people that do wrong.\par

God will punish the bad people\par because of the evil things they did.\par And God will punish those people\par where other people can see it happen.\par

Why? Because the bad people\par stopped obeying God.\par And those bad people didn’t care\par about doing what God wants.\par

Why? Because the Lord\par protects good people,\par but destroys bad people.\par

May sin disappear from the earth.\par May wicked people be gone forever.\par

Evil people do crooked things.\par The Lord will punish those evil people.\par

But people who break the law\par will be completely destroyed.\par And their descendants\par will be forced to leave the land. {\cf2\super [227]} \par

You destroy people who tell lies.\par You hate people who make secret plans\par to hurt other people.\par

God, people who leave you will be lost.\par You will destroy the people\par who are not faithful to you.\par

You criticized those other people.\par Lord, you destroyed those bad people.\par You erased their names forever and ever\par \{from the list of people who are alive\}.\par

Lord, all your enemies will be destroyed.\par All those people who do bad things\par will be destroyed.\par

If a person is stubborn and becomes more angry every time people tell him that he is doing wrong, then that person will be destroyed. There is no hope.

The nation of Israel is full of guilt. This guilt is like a heavy weight the people have to carry. Those people are like bad children from evil families. They left the Lord. They insulted the Holy One (God) of Israel. They left him and treated him like a stranger.

The sins of the world are very heavy.\par So the earth will fall under that weight.\par The earth will shake like an old house.\par The earth will fall like a drunk person.\par The earth will not be able to continue.\par

You are guilty of these things so you are like a tall wall with cracks in it. That wall will fall and break into small pieces.

The sinners in Zion {\cf2\super [308]} are afraid. The people that do wrong things shake with fear. They say, “Can any of us live through this fire that destroys? Who can live near this fire that burns forever?” {\cf2\super [309]}

The Lord says,\par “\{People of Israel, you say that I divorced\par your mother, Jerusalem.\}\par But where is the legal paper\par that proves I divorced her?\par My children, did I owe money to someone?\par Did I sell you to pay a debt?\par No! You were sold\par because of the bad things you did.\par Your mother (Jerusalem) was sent away\par because of the bad things you did.\par

“Look, \{you people want to live your own ways\}. You light your own fires and torches (lights). So, \{live your own way\}. But, you will be punished! You will fall into your fires and torches and you will be burned. I will make that happen.”

Then they will come every day\par to worship me.\par And they will want to learn my ways.\par They will become a nation that lives right.\par They will not quit following\par God’s good commands.\par They will ask me to judge them fairly.\par They will want to go to God\par \{for his fair decisions\}.\par

We are all dirty with sin.\par Even our good works \{are not pure\}.\par They are like blood-stained rags.\par We are all like dead leaves.\par Our sins have carried us away like wind.\par

“But you people left the Lord, so you will be punished. You people forgot about my holy mountain. {\cf2\super [472]} You began to worship Luck. You depend on the false god Fate. {\cf2\super [473]}

Those people wash themselves to make themselves pure for worshiping in their special gardens. {\cf2\super [479]} These people follow each other into their special gardens. Then they worship their idols. But, the Lord will destroy all those people.

“\{These people will be in my holy city.\} And if they go out \{of the city\} they will see the dead bodies of the people that sinned against me. \{There will be worms in those bodies\}—and the worms will never die. \{Fires will burn those bodies\}—and the fires will never stop.”

Lord, you are the hope of Israel.\par Lord, you are like a spring of living water.\par If a person quits following the Lord,\par then his life will be very short. {\cf2\super [139]} \par

There were a few survivors {\cf2\super [356]} from Judah. Those people came here to Egypt. But I will destroy those few survivors from the family of Judah. They will be killed with swords or die from hunger. They will be something that people of other nations will speak evil about. Other nations will be afraid at what happened to those people. Those people will become a curse word. Other nations will insult those people of Judah.

A wise person understands these things.\par A smart person should learn these things.\par The Lord’s ways are right.\par Good people will live by them.\par Sinners will die by them. {\cf2\super [153]} \par

People will say, “We have peace and we are safe.” At that time destruction will come to them quickly. Destruction will come like the pains of a woman who is having a baby. And those people will not escape.

And that same word \{of God\} is keeping the skies and the earth that we have now. The skies and the earth are being kept to be destroyed by fire. The skies and the earth are kept for the day of judgment and the destruction of all people who are against God.

But the people who are cowards, people who refuse to believe, people who do terrible things, people who kill, people who sin sexually, people who do evil magic, people who worship idols, {\cf2\super [159]} and people who tell lies—all those people will have a place in the lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

But if you are stubborn and do evil, then God will throw you and your king away—like sweeping dirt out with a broom.”




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