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1.13 :I cannot endure iniquity along with the solemn assembly.
 * Your new moons and your appointed seasons
 * My soul hateth;
 * They are a burden unto Me;
 * I am weary to bear them.
 * And when ye spread forth your hands,
 * I will hide Mine eyes from you;
 * Yea, when ye make many prayers,
 * I will not hear;
 * Your hands are full of blood.
 * Wash you, make you clean,
 * Put away the evil of your doings
 * From before Mine eyes,
 * Cease to do evil;
 * Learn to do well;
 * Seek justice, relieve the oppressed,
 * Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.


 * Come now, and let us reason together,
 * Saith the ;
 * Though your sins be as scarlet,
 * They shall be as white as snow;
 * Though they be red like crimson,
 * They shall be as wool.
 * If ye be willing and obedient,
 * Ye shall eat the good of the land;
 * But if ye refuse and rebel,
 * Ye shall be devoured with the sword;
 * For the mouth of the hath spoken.


 * How is the faithful city
 * Become a harlot!
 * She that was full of justice,
 * Righteousness lodged in her,
 * But now murderers.
 * Thy silver is become dross,
 * Thy wine mixed with water.
 * Thy princes are rebellious,
 * And companions of thieves;
 * Every one loveth bribes,
 * And followeth after rewards;
 * They judge not the fatherless,
 * Neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.


 * Therefore saith the Lord, the of hosts,
 * The Mighty One of Israel:
 * Ah, I will ease Me of Mine adversaries,
 * And avenge Me of Mine enemies;
 * And I will turn My hand upon thee,
 * And purge away thy dross as with lye,
 * And will take away all thine alloy;
 * And I will restore thy judges as at the first,
 * And thy counsellors as at the beginning;
 * Afterward thou shalt be called The city of righteousness,
 * The faithful city.
 * Zion shall be redeemed with justice,
 * And they that return of her with righteousness.
 * But the destruction of the transgressors and the sinners shall be together,
 * And they that forsake the shall be consumed.
 * For they shall be ashamed of the terebinths which ye have desired,
 * And ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
 * For ye shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fadeth,
 * And as a garden that hath no water.
 * And the strong shall be as tow,
 * And his work as a spark;
 * And they shall both burn together,
 * And none shall quench them.

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.


 * And it shall come to pass in the end of days,