(2 Chronicles 28:5–15)
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A vision of Isaiah, the sonne of Amoz, which he sawe concerning Iudah and in the dayes of Vzziah, Iotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah Kings of Iudah.
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Heare, O heauens, and hearken, O for the Lord hath sayde, I haue nourished and brought vp children, but they haue rebelled against me.
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The oxe knoweth his owner, and the asse his masters but Israel hath not my people hath not vnderstand.
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Ah, sinfull nation, a people laden with a seede of the wicked, corrupt they haue forsaken the they haue prouoked the holy one of Israel to they are gone backewarde.
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Wherefore shoulde ye be smitten any more? for ye fall away more and the whole head is sicke, and the whole heart is heauie.
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From the sole of the foote vnto the head, there is nothing whole therein, but wounds, and swelling, and sores full of they haue not bene wrapped, nor bound vp, nor mollified with oyle.
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Your land is your cities are burnt with strangers deuoure your lande in your presence, and it is desolate like the ouerthrowe of strangers.
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And the daughter of Zion shall remaine like a cotage in a vineyarde, like a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and like a besieged citie.
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Except the Lord of hostes had reserued vnto vs, euen a small we should haue bene as Sodom, and should haue bene like vnto Gomorah.
Meaningless Offerings
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Heare the worde of the Lord, O princes of hearken vnto the Law of our God, O people of Gomorah.
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What haue I to doe with the multitude of your sacrifices, sayth the Lord? I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and of the fat of fed and I desire not the blood of bullocks, nor of lambs, nor of goates.
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When ye come to appeare before me, who required this of your hands to tread in my courts?
13
Bring no more oblations, in incense is an abomination vnto I can not suffer your newe moones, nor Sabbaths, nor solemne dayes (it is iniquitie) nor solemne assemblies.
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My soule hateth your newe moones and your appointed they are a burden vnto I am weary to beare them.
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And when you shall stretch out your hands, I wil hide mine eyes from and though ye make many prayers, I wil not for your hands are full of blood.
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Wash you, make you take away the euill of your workes from before mine cease to doe euill.
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Learne to doe seeke iudgement, relieue the iudge the fatherlesse and defend the widowe.
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Come nowe, and let vs reason together, sayth the though your sinnes were as crimsin, they shalbe made white as though they were red like skarlet, they shalbe as wooll.
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If ye consent and obey, ye shall eate the good things of the land.
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But if ye refuse and be rebellious, ye shalbe deuoured with the for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
The Corruption of Zion
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Howe is the faithfull citie become an harlot? it was full of iudgement, and iustice lodged therein, but now they are murtherers.
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Thy siluer is become thy wine is mixt with water.
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Thy Princes are rebellious and companions of euery one loueth giftes, and followeth after they iudge not the fatherlesse, neither doeth the widowes cause come before them.
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Therefore sayth the Lord God of hostes, the mightie one of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine aduersaries, and auenge me of mine enemies.
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Then I will turne mine hand vpon thee, and burne out thy drosse, till it be pure, and take away all thy tinne.
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And I will restore thy iudges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at the afterward shalt thou be called a citie of righteousnes, and a faithfull citie.
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Zion shall be redeemed in iudgement, and they that returne in her, in iustice.
28
And the destruction of the transgressers and of the sinners shalbe and they that forsake the Lord, shalbe consumed.
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For they shalbe confounded for the okes, which ye haue desired, and ye shall be ashamed of the gardens, that ye haue chosen.
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For ye shalbe as an oke, whose leafe and as a garden that hath no water.
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And the strong shall be as towe, and the maker thereof, as a and they shall both burne together, and none shall quench them.