The Wickedness of Judah

(A)Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O (B)earth;
    for the Lord has spoken:
“Children[a] (C)have I reared and brought up,
    but they have rebelled against me.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:2 Or Sons; also verse 4

The Coming Destruction

(A)Hear, you peoples, all of you;[a]
    (B)pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it,
and (C)let the Lord God be a witness against you,
    (D)the Lord from his holy temple.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 1:2 Hebrew all of them

32 “Give ear, (A)O heavens, and I will speak,
    and let (B)the earth hear the words of my mouth.

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26 I (A)call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed.

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19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, (A)blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,

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The Priests' Polluted Offerings

(A)“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am (B)a father, where is my honor? And if I am (C)a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. (D)But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

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(A)He calls to the heavens above
    and to the earth, that he may judge his people:

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The Indictment of the Lord

(A)Hear what the Lord says:
Arise, plead your case before the mountains,
    and let the hills hear your voice.
(B)Hear, you mountains, (C)the indictment of the Lord,
    and you enduring foundations of the earth,
for the Lord has an indictment against his people,
    and he will contend with Israel.

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Israel's Guilt and Punishment

(A)Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:

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therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus says the Lord God to (A)the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, (B)the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become (C)a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around,

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29 (A)O land, land, land,
    hear the word of the Lord!

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“Listen to me, O house of Jacob,
    all the remnant of the house of Israel,
(A)who have been borne by me from before your birth,
    carried from the womb;
(B)even to your old age I am he,
    and to gray hairs I will carry you.
I have made, and I will bear;
    I will carry and will save.

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(A)For they are a rebellious people,
    lying children,
children unwilling to hear
    the instruction of the Lord;

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But as for me, (A)I am filled with power,
    with the Spirit of the Lord,
    and with justice and might,
to declare to Jacob (B)his transgression
    and to Israel his sin.

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“And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing (A)in your blood, I said to you (B)in your blood, ‘Live!’ I said to you (C)in your blood, ‘Live!’ (D)I made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became tall (E)and arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet (F)you were naked and bare.

“When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and (G)I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you (H)and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord God, (I)and you became mine. Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you and (J)anointed you with oil. 10 (K)I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.[a] 11 (L)And I adorned you with ornaments and (M)put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck. 12 And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. 13 Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. (N)You ate fine flour and honey and oil. (O)You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty. 14 And (P)your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord God.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:10 Or with rich fabric

(A)With weeping they shall come,
    (B)and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back,
I will make them (C)walk by brooks of water,
    (D)in a straight path in which they shall not stumble,
for (E)I am a father to Israel,
    and Ephraim is (F)my firstborn.

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Exile Threatened

15 Hear and give ear; be not proud,
    for the Lord has spoken.

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19 Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing disaster upon this people,
    (A)the fruit of their devices,
because they have not paid attention to my words;
    and as for my law, they have rejected it.

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(A)I spread out my hands all the day
    to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not good,
    following their own devices;

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(A)In all their affliction he was afflicted,[a]
    and the angel of his presence saved them;
(B)in his love and in his pity he redeemed them;
    (C)he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

10 (D)But they rebelled
    (E)and grieved his Holy Spirit;
therefore he turned to be their enemy,
    and himself fought against them.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 63:9 Or he did not afflict

Do Not Go Down to Egypt

30 “Ah, (A)stubborn children,” declares the Lord,
(B)“who carry out a plan, but not mine,
and who make (C)an alliance,[a] but not of my Spirit,
    that they may add sin to sin;

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:1 Hebrew who weave a web

The Vineyard of the Lord Destroyed

Let me sing for my beloved
    my love song concerning his vineyard:
My beloved had (A)a vineyard
    on a very fertile hill.
He dug it and cleared it of stones,
    and planted it with (B)choice vines;
he built a watchtower in the midst of it,
    and hewed out a wine vat in it;
and (C)he looked for it to yield grapes,
    but it yielded wild grapes.

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22 “At (A)Taberah also, and at (B)Massah and at (C)Kibroth-hattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath. 23 And (D)when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God and (E)did not believe him or obey his voice. 24 (F)You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.

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For (A)what great nation is there that has (B)a god so near to it as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so (C)righteous as all this law that I set before you today?

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31 and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the Lord your God (A)carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.’

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