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Isaiah 58:1

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The Lord says, “Shout out loud. Don’t hold back. Shout out loud like a trumpet. Tell my people what they have done against their God; tell the family of Jacob about their sins.

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Come, family of Jacob, and let us follow the way of the Lord.

Many of my people are now lost in Assyria. Some have run away to Egypt. But at that time a great trumpet will be blown, and all those people will come and worship the Lord on that holy mountain in Jerusalem.

A voice says, “Cry out!” Then I said, “What shall I cry out?” “Say all people are like the grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field.

Your first father sinned, and your leaders have turned against me.

This is what the Lord says: “People of Israel, you say I divorced your mother. Then where is the paper that proves it? Or do you think I sold you to pay a debt? Because of the evil things you did, I sold you. Because of the times she turned against me, your mother was sent away.

The leaders who are to guard the people are blind; they don’t know what they are doing. All of them are like quiet dogs that don’t know how to bark. They lie down and dream and love to sleep.

I will tell about your ‘goodness’ and what you do, and those things will do you no good.

We have done many wrong things against our God; our sins show we are wrong. We know we have turned against God; we know the evil things we have done:

“Go and speak to the people of Jerusalem, saying: This is what the Lord says: ‘I remember how faithful you were to me when you were a young nation. You loved me like a young bride. You followed me through the desert, a land that had never been planted.

In the ninth month of the fifth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was king, a fast was announced. All the people of Jerusalem and everyone who had come into Jerusalem from the towns of Judah were supposed to give up eating to honor the Lord.

I set watchmen over you and told you, ‘Listen for the sound of the war trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen.’

Your prophets saw visions, but they were false and worth nothing. They did not point out your sins to keep you from being captured. They preached what was false and led you wrongly.

So prophesy against them, prophesy, human.”

“Human, tell Jerusalem about her hateful actions.

“Will you judge them? Will you judge them, human? Let them know the hateful things their ancestors did.

“And you, human, will you judge? Will you judge the city of murderers? Then tell her about all her hateful acts.

The Lord said to me: “Human, will you judge Samaria and Jerusalem, showing them their hateful acts?

When he sees the enemy coming to attack the land, he will blow the trumpet and warn the people.

“Put the trumpet to your lips and give the warning! The enemy swoops down on the Lord’s people like an eagle. The Israelites have broken my agreement and have turned against my teachings.

“Get up, go to the great city of Nineveh, and preach against it, because I see the evil things they do.”

Say these things and encourage the people and tell them what is wrong in their lives, with all authority. Do not let anyone treat you as if you were unimportant.

On the Lord’s day I was in the Spirit, and I heard a loud voice behind me that sounded like a trumpet.

After the vision of these things I looked, and there before me was an open door in heaven. And the same voice that spoke to me before, that sounded like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after this.”




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