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Isaiah 56:11

The Scriptures 1998

And the dogs have a strong appetite, they never have enough. And they are shepherds! They have not known understanding. All of them look to their own way, every one for his own gain, from his own end, saying,

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Her heads judge for a bribe, her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for a price. Yet they lean on יהוה, and say, “Is not יהוה  in our midst? Evil does not come upon us.”

“And you have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to put to death beings that should not die, and to keep alive beings who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies!”

“But outside are the dogs and those who enchant with drugs, and those who whore, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and all who love and do falsehood.

For an overseer has to be unreprovable, as a managing one of Elohim, not self-pleasing, not wroth, not given to wine, no brawler, not greedy for filthy gain,

“Why do you not know what I say? Because you are unable to hear My Word.

“For the crookedness of his unfair gain I was wroth and I smote him. I hid Myself and was wroth, and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

An ox knows its owner and a donkey its master’s crib – Yisra’ĕ

These are grumblers, complainers, who walk according to their own lusts, and their mouth speaks proudly, admiring faces of others for the sake of gain.

Woe to them! Because they have gone in the way of Qayin, and gave themselves to the delusion of Bilʽ

and in greed, with fabricated words, they shall use you for gain. From of old their judgment does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber.

Shepherd the flock of Elohim which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but voluntarily, not out of greed for filthy gain, but eagerly,

whose mouths have to be stopped, who upset entire households, teaching what they should not teach, for the sake of filthy gain.

Likewise attendants are to be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for filthy gain,

not given to wine, no brawler, but gentle, not quarrelsome, no lover of money,

Their end is destruction, their mighty one is their stomach, and their esteem is in their shame – they mind the earthly.

in whom the mighty one of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the enlightening of the Good News of the esteem of Messiah, who is the likeness of Elohim, does not shine on them.

“I have coveted no one’s silver or gold or garments.

“For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves shall come in among you, not sparing the flock.

“Who among you who would shut the doors, so that you would not kindle fire on My altar for naught? I have no pleasure in you,” said יהוה  of hosts, “Nor do I accept an offering from your hands.

“But your eyes and your heart are only upon your own greedy gain, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and on doing violence.”

He who loves silver is not satisfied with silver; nor he who loves wealth, and increase. That too is futile.

‘Why do you kick at My slaughtering and My offering which I have commanded in My Dwelling Place, and esteem your sons above Me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Yisra’ĕ

“And do not favour a poor man in his strife.

Look out for dogs, look out for the evil workers, look out for the mutilation!

And these too have gone astray through wine, and through strong drink wandered about. Priest and prophet have gone astray through strong drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they wander about through strong drink, they go astray in vision, they stumble in right-ruling.

“For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, they are all greedy for gain. And from the prophet even to the priest, all act falsely.

“Therefore I give their wives to others, and their fields to possessing ones. For from the least even to the greatest, they are all greedy for gain. From the prophet to the priest, all act falsely.

“They eat the sin of My people, and lift up their desire to their crookedness.

And the heart of the priest was glad. And he took the shoulder garment, and the house idols, and the carved image, and took his place among the people.




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