Isaiah 1:21-25
New King James Version
The Degenerate City
21 (A)How the faithful city has become a [a]harlot!
It was full of justice;
Righteousness lodged in it,
But now (B)murderers.
22 (C)Your silver has become dross,
Your wine mixed with water.
23 (D)Your princes are rebellious,
And (E)companions of thieves;
(F)Everyone loves bribes,
And follows after rewards.
They (G)do not defend the fatherless,
Nor does the cause of the widow come before them.
24 Therefore the Lord says,
The Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel,
“Ah, (H)I will [b]rid Myself of My adversaries,
And [c]take vengeance on My enemies.
25 I will turn My hand against you,
And (I)thoroughly[d] purge away your dross,
And take away all your alloy.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 1:21 Unfaithful
- Isaiah 1:24 be relieved of
- Isaiah 1:24 avenge Myself
- Isaiah 1:25 refine with lye
Isaiah 4:3-4
New King James Version
3 And it shall come to pass that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem (A)will be called holy—everyone who is (B)recorded among the living in Jerusalem. 4 When (C)the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and purged the [a]blood of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning,
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- Isaiah 4:4 bloodshed
Revelation 17:15-18
New King James Version
15 Then he said to me, (A)“The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, (B)are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues. 16 And the ten horns which you [a]saw on the beast, (C)these will hate the harlot, make her (D)desolate (E)and naked, eat her flesh and (F)burn her with fire. 17 (G)For God has put it into their hearts to fulfill His purpose, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, (H)until the words of God are fulfilled. 18 And the woman whom you saw (I)is that great city (J)which reigns over the kings of the earth.”
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- Revelation 17:16 NU, M saw, and the beast
Zechariah 14:2-4
New King James Version
2 For (A)I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem;
The city shall be taken,
The houses [a]rifled,
And the women ravished.
Half of the city shall go into captivity,
But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then the Lord will go forth
And fight against those nations,
As He fights in the day of battle.
4 And in that day His feet will stand (B)on the Mount of Olives,
Which faces Jerusalem on the east.
And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two,
From east to west,
(C)Making a very large valley;
Half of the mountain shall move toward the north
And half of it toward the south.
Footnotes
- Zechariah 14:2 Or plundered
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