Israel Refined for God's Glory

48 Hear this, O house of Jacob,
    (A)who are called by the name of Israel,
    and (B)who came from the waters of Judah,
(C)who swear by the name of the Lord
    and confess the God of Israel,
    but not in truth or right.

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(A)and if you swear, ‘As the Lord lives,’
    in truth, in justice, and in righteousness,
then (B)nations shall bless themselves in him,
    (C)and in him shall they glory.”

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26 (A)“Bless God in the great congregation,
    the Lord, O you[a] who are of (B)Israel's fountain!”

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 68:26 The Hebrew for you is plural here

(A)“‘This people honors me with their lips,
    but their heart is far from me;
in vain do they worship me,
    teaching as (B)doctrines the commandments of men.’”

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(A)Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, (B)swear falsely, (C)make offerings to Baal, (D)and go after other gods that you have not known, 10 and then come and stand before me in this house, (E)which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations?

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(A)Though they say, “As the Lord lives,”
    (B)yet they swear falsely.

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16 so that he who (A)blesses himself in the land
    shall bless himself by (B)the God of truth,
and he who takes an oath in the land
    shall swear by (C)the God of truth;
(D)because the former troubles are forgotten
    and are hidden from my eyes.

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10 Hear the word of the Lord,
    you rulers of (A)(B)Sodom!
Give ear to the teaching[a] of our God,
    you people of (C)Gomorrah!
11 (D)“What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?
    says the Lord;
I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
    and the fat of well-fed beasts;
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
    or of lambs, or of goats.

12 “When you come to (E)appear before me,
    who has required of you
    this trampling of my courts?
13 Bring no more vain offerings;
    incense is an abomination to me.
(F)New moon and Sabbath and the (G)calling of convocations—
    I cannot endure (H)iniquity and (I)solemn assembly.
14 Your (J)new moons and your appointed feasts
    my soul hates;
they have become a burden to me;
    I am weary of bearing them.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:10 Or law

28 So Israel lived in safety,
    (A)Jacob lived (B)alone,[a]
in a land of grain and wine,
    whose heavens drop down dew.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 33:28 Hebrew the abode of Jacob was alone

13 It is (A)the Lord your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and (B)by his name you shall swear.

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Water shall flow from his buckets,
    and his seed shall be (A)in many waters;
his king shall be higher than (B)Agag,
    and (C)his kingdom shall be exalted.

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28 Then he said, (A)“Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel,[a] for (B)you have striven with God and (C)with men, and have prevailed.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 32:28 Israel means He strives with God, or God strives

Behold, I will make those of (A)the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, (B)I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will learn that (C)I have loved you.

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