Isaiah 1-2:
1:21 How tragic that the once-faithful city
has become a prostitute!52
She was once a center of53 justice,
fairness resided in her,
but now only murderers.54
1:22 Your55 silver has become scum,56
your beer is diluted with water.57
1:23 Your officials are rebels,58
they associate with59 thieves.
All of them love bribery,
They do not take up the cause of the orphan,62
or defend the rights of the widow.63
1:24
Therefore, the sovereign
the powerful ruler of Israel,65 says this:
“Ah, I will seek vengeance66 against my adversaries,
I will take revenge against my enemies.67
1:25 I will attack you;68
I will purify your metal with flux.69
I will remove all your slag.70
1:26 I will reestablish honest judges as in former times,
wise advisers as in earlier days.71
Then you will be called, ‘The Just City,
Faithful Town.’”
1:2772 Zion will be freed by justice,73
and her returnees by righteousness.74
1:28 All rebellious sinners will be shattered,75
those who abandon the
2:6 Indeed, O
the descendants of Jacob.
For diviners from the east are everywhere;17
they consult omen readers like the Philistines do.18
Plenty of foreigners are around.19
2:7 Their land is full of gold and silver;
there is no end to their wealth.20
Their land is full of horses;
there is no end to their chariots.21
2:8 Their land is full of worthless idols;
they worship22 the product of their own hands,
what their own fingers have fashioned.
2:9 Men bow down to them in homage,
they lie flat on the ground in worship.23