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Isaiah 1:5

New American Bible - revised edition

Why would you yet be struck, that you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint.

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The king sent a third captain with his company of fifty men. When the third captain had climbed the hill, he fell to his knees before Elijah, pleading with him. He said, “Man of God, let my life and the lives of these fifty men, your servants, count for something in your sight!

While he was already in distress, the same King Ahaz increased his treachery to the Lord.

Yes, our kings, our princes, our priests, and our ancestors have not kept your law; They paid no attention to your commandments and the warnings which you gave them.

Your princes are rebels and comrades of thieves; Each one of them loves a bribe and looks for gifts. The fatherless they do not defend, the widow’s plea does not reach them.

Return, O Israelites, to him whom you have utterly deserted.

No one who dwells there will say, “I am sick”; the people who live there will be forgiven their guilt.

So the Lord cuts off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day.

Can Ethiopians change their skin, leopards their spots? As easily would you be able to do good, accustomed to evil as you are.

More tortuous than anything is the human heart, beyond remedy; who can understand it?

In vain I struck your children; correction they did not take. Your sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

They answered Jeremiah—all the men who knew that their wives were offering sacrifices to other gods, all the women standing there in the immense crowd, and all the people who lived in Lower and Upper Egypt:

Lord, do your eyes not search for honesty? You struck them, but they did not flinch; you laid them low, but they refused correction; They set their faces harder than stone, and refused to return.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests teach on their own authority; Yet my people like it this way; what will you do when the end comes?

Let me go to the leaders and speak with them; For they must know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God. But, one and all, they have broken the yoke, torn off the harness.

Be on your guard, everyone against his neighbor; put no trust in any brother. Every brother imitates Jacob, the supplanter, every neighbor is guilty of slander.

Because of this our hearts grow sick, at this our eyes grow dim:

Even in defiling yourself with depravity I would still have cleansed you, but you would not have your impurity cleansed. You will not be cleansed now until I wreak my fury on you.

The lost I will search out, the strays I will bring back, the injured I will bind up, and the sick I will heal; but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them in judgment. Separation of the Sheep.

You did not strengthen the weak nor heal the sick nor bind up the injured. You did not bring back the stray or seek the lost but ruled them harshly and brutally.




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