Isaiah 1:10-20

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¹⁰Hear the word of the Lord,^(A)
    you rulers of Sodom;^(B)
listen to the instruction^(C) of our God,
    you people of Gomorrah!^(D)
¹¹“The multitude of your sacrifices—
    what are they to me?” says the Lord.
“I have more than enough of burnt offerings,
    of rams and the fat of fattened animals;^(E)
I have no pleasure^(F)
    in the blood of bulls^(G) and lambs and goats.^(H)
¹²When you come to appear before me,
    who has asked this of you,^(I)
    this trampling of my courts?
¹³Stop bringing meaningless offerings!^(J)
    Your incense^(K) is detestable^(L) to me.
New Moons,^(M) Sabbaths and convocations^(N)—
    I cannot bear your worthless assemblies.
¹⁴Your New Moon^(O) feasts and your appointed festivals^(P)
    I hate with all my being.^(Q)
They have become a burden to me;^(R)
    I am weary^(S) of bearing them.
¹⁵When you spread out your hands^(T) in prayer,
    I hide^(U) my eyes from you;
even when you offer many prayers,
    I am not listening.^(V)

Your hands^(W) are full of blood!^(X)

¹⁶Wash^(Y) and make yourselves clean.
    Take your evil deeds out of my sight;^(Z)
    stop doing wrong.^(AA)
¹⁷Learn to do right;^(AB) seek justice.^(AC)
    Defend the oppressed.^[a]^(AD)
Take up the cause of the fatherless;^(AE)
    plead the case of the widow.^(AF)

¹⁸“Come now, let us settle the matter,”^(AG)
    says the Lord.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
    they shall be as white as snow;^(AH)
though they are red as crimson,
    they shall be like wool.^(AI)
¹⁹If you are willing and obedient,^(AJ)
    you will eat the good things of the land;^(AK)
²⁰but if you resist and rebel,^(AL)
    you will be devoured by the sword.”^(AM)
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.^(AN)

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Footnotes

Isaiah 1:17 Or justice. / Correct the oppressor

Luke 4:16-30

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¹⁶He went to Nazareth,^(A) where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue,^(B) as was his custom. He stood up to read,^(C) ¹⁷and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:

¹⁸“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,^(D)
    because he has anointed me
    to proclaim good news^(E) to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
    and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
¹⁹    to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”^[a]^(F)

²⁰Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down.^(G) The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. ²¹He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled^(H) in your hearing.”

²²All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked.^(I)

²³Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ And you will tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown^(J) what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’”^(K)

²⁴“Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.^(L) ²⁵I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.^(M) ²⁶Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.^(N) ²⁷And there were many in Israel with leprosy^[b] in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”^(O)

²⁸All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. ²⁹They got up, drove him out of the town,^(P) and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. ³⁰But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.^(Q)

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Footnotes

Luke 4:19 Isaiah 61:1,2 (see Septuagint); Isaiah 58:6
Luke 4:27 The Greek word traditionally translated leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin.