So David reigned over all Israel. And David administered justice and equity to all his people.
Isaiah 1:21 - English Standard Version 2016 How the faithful city has become a whore, she who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition How the faithful city has become an [idolatrous] harlot, she who was full of justice! Uprightness and right standing with God [once] lodged in her–but now murderers. American Standard Version (1901) How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers. Common English Bible This faithful town has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lived in her— but now murderers. Catholic Public Domain Version How has the faithful city, full of judgment, become a harlot? Justice lived in her, but now murderers. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers. |
So David reigned over all Israel. And David administered justice and equity to all his people.
And he charged them: “Thus you shall do in the fear of the Lord, in faithfulness, and with your whole heart:
Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem. And the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem the holy city, while nine out of ten remained in the other towns.
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.
Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God! His holy mountain,
As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God, which God will establish forever. Selah
If favor is shown to the wicked, he does not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he deals corruptly and does not see the majesty of the Lord.
For they call themselves after the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; the Lord of hosts is his name.
For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!
Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has stumbled in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter.
Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness.
“If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the Lord.
Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.
For their mother has played the whore; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.
Thus says the Lord: I have returned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,
but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.
and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.
Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters,