Isaiah 1:16-31 - Purification Of Jerusalem
16 Wash you make you clean, Put away the wickedness of your doings from before mine eyes, - Cease to do evil. 17 Learn to do well - Seek justice, Correct the oppressor, - Vindicate the fatherless, Plead the cause of the widow,
18 Come, I pray you, and let us settle the disputer Saith Yahweh, - Though your sins be found like scarlet, As snow, shall they be made white, Though they appear red like crimson, As wool, shall they become. 19 If ye be willing - and hearken Of the good of the land, shall ye eat; 20 But, if ye refuse and rebel, With the sword, shall ye be devoured, For, the mouth of Yahweh, hath spoken it.
21 How hath she become unchaste! - The city that was Faithful, - Full of justice, Righteousness lodged in her, But, now, murderers! 22 Thy silver, hath become dross, - Thy wine, weakened with water; 23 Thy rulers, are unruly, and companions of thieves, Every one of the people, loveth a bribe, and runneth after rewards, - The fatherless, they do not vindicate, And, the plea of the widow, reacheth them not.
24 Therefore, Declareth the Lord Yahweh of hosts, The Mighty One of Israel, - Alas! I must appease me on mine adversaries, I must avenge me on mine enemies 25 That I may turn my hand against thee, And smelt away, as with potash, thy dross, And remove all thine alloy; 26 That I may restore thy Judges as at the first, and thy Counsellors as at the beginning, - After that, shalt thou he called Righteous citadel, Trusty city, -
27 Zion, with justice shall be redeemed, - And her returning ones, with righteousness; 28 And the downfall of transgressors and sinners, shall be, together, - And, they who forsake Yahweh, shall be brought to an end; 29 For they shall turn pale on account of the oaks which ye desired, - And ye shall blush on account of the gardens which ye had chosen; 30 For ye shall be as an oak with its leaf faded, And as a garden that hath no, water; 31 Then shall the strong one become tow, And his work a spark, - And they shall both blaze together And there be none to quench the fire.