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Isaiah 1:10

Good News Translation

Jerusalem, your rulers and your people are like those of Sodom and Gomorrah. Listen to what the Lord is saying to you. Pay attention to what our God is teaching you.

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whose people were wicked and sinned against the Lord.

Now you arrogant leaders who rule here in Jerusalem over this people, listen to what the Lord is saying.

Their prejudices will be held against them. They sin as openly as the people of Sodom did. They are doomed, and they have brought it on themselves.

They are always rebelling against God, always lying, always refusing to listen to the Lord's teachings.

All the rigging on those ships is useless; the sails cannot be spread! We will seize all the wealth of enemy armies, and there will be so much that even the lame can get a share. The Lord himself will be our king; he will rule over us and protect us.

You are to answer them, “Listen to what the Lord is teaching you! Don't listen to mediums—what they tell you cannot keep trouble away.”

But I have seen the prophets in Jerusalem do even worse: they commit adultery and tell lies; they help people to do wrong, so that no one stops doing what is evil. To me they are all as bad as the people of Sodom and Gomorrah.

“Mortal man,” he said, “denounce the prophets of Israel who make up their own prophecies. Tell them to listen to the word of the Lord.”

Now then, Jerusalem, you whore! Hear what the Lord is saying.

“Your older sister, with her villages, is Samaria, in the north. Your younger sister, with her villages, is Sodom, in the south.

She and her daughters were proud because they had plenty to eat and lived in peace and quiet, but they did not take care of the poor and the underprivileged.

People of Israel, listen to this message which the Lord has spoken about you, the entire nation that he brought out of Egypt:

When a lion roars, who can keep from being afraid? When the Sovereign Lord speaks, who can keep from proclaiming his message?

The Lord says, “People of Israel, I think as much of the people of Ethiopia as I do of you. I brought the Philistines from Crete and the Syrians from Kir, just as I brought you from Egypt.

Listen, you rulers of Israel! You are supposed to be concerned about justice,

It is as Isaiah had said before, “If the Lord Almighty had not left us some descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.”

Their enemies, corrupt as Sodom and Gomorrah, are like vines that bear bitter and poisonous grapes,

and their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, where their Lord was crucified. The symbolic name of that city is Sodom, or Egypt.




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