Isaiah 1:16-2:6

New King James Version

¹⁶ “Wash^(A) yourselves, make yourselves clean;
Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes.
^(B)Cease to do evil,
¹⁷ Learn to do good;
Seek justice,
Rebuke ^[a]the oppressor;
^[b]Defend the fatherless,
Plead for the widow.

¹⁸ “Come now, and let us ^(C)reason together,”
Says the Lord,
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
^(D)They shall be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They shall be as wool.
¹⁹ If you are willing and obedient,
You shall eat the good of the land;
²⁰ But if you refuse and rebel,
You shall be devoured by the sword”;
^(E)For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

²⁴ Therefore the Lord says,
The Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel,
“Ah, ^(M)I will ^[d]rid Myself of My adversaries,
And ^[e]take vengeance on My enemies.
²⁵ I will turn My hand against you,
And ^(N)thoroughly^[f] purge away your dross,
And take away all your alloy.
²⁶ I will restore your judges ^(O)as at the first,
And your counselors as at the beginning.
Afterward ^(P)you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.”

²⁷ Zion shall be redeemed with justice,
And her ^[g]penitents with righteousness.
²⁸ The ^(Q)destruction of transgressors and of sinners shall be together,
And those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
²⁹ For ^[h]they shall be ashamed of the ^[i]terebinth trees
Which you have desired;
And you shall be embarrassed because of the gardens
Which you have chosen.
³⁰ For you shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fades,
And as a garden that has no water.
^31 (R)The strong shall be as tinder,
And the work of it as a spark;
Both will burn together,
And no one shall ^(S)quench them.

² Now ^(U)it shall come to pass ^(V)in the latter days
^(W)That the mountain of the Lord’s house
Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills;
And all nations shall flow to it.
³ Many people shall come and say,
^(X)“Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
He will teach us His ways,
And we shall walk in His paths.”
^(Y)For out of Zion shall go forth the law,
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
⁴ He shall judge between the nations,
And rebuke many people;
They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
And their spears into pruning ^[j]hooks;
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Neither shall they learn war anymore.

⁶ For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob,
Because they are filled ^(AA)with eastern ways;
They are ^(AB)soothsayers like the Philistines,
^(AC)And they ^[k]are pleased with the children of foreigners.