Isaiah 1:21-23
The Unfaithful City
21 How the faithful cityahas become a whore, ▼
▼Or become unchaste
cshe who was full of justice!
Righteousness lodged in her,
but now murderers.
22 dYour silver has become dross,
your best wine mixed with water.
23Your princes are rebels
and companions of thieves.
Everyone eloves a bribe
and runs after gifts.
fThey do not bring justice to the fatherless,
and the widow’s cause does not come to them.
Isaiah 59:2-8
2 gbut your iniquities have made a separationbetween you and your God,
and your sins have hidden his face from you
so that he does not hear.
3 hFor your hands are defiled with blood
and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies;
your tongue mutters wickedness.
4 iNo one enters suit justly;
no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,
jthey conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
5They hatch adders’ eggs;
they weave the spider’s web;
he who eats their eggs dies,
and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.
6 kTheir webs will not serve as clothing;
men will not cover themselves with what they make.
Their works are works of iniquity,
and deeds of violence are in their hands.
7 lTheir feet run to evil,
and they are swift to shed innocent blood;
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
desolation and destruction are in their highways.
8The way of peace they do not know,
and there is no justice in their paths;
they have made their roads crooked;
mno one who treads on them knows peace.
Isaiah 59:13-15
13transgressing, and denying the Lord,and turning back from following our God,
nspeaking oppression and revolt,
conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.
Judgment and Redemption
14 oJustice is turned back,and righteousness stands far away;
for truth has stumbled in the public squares,
and uprightness cannot enter.
15Truth is lacking,
and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.
The Lord saw it, and it displeased him ▼
▼Hebrew and it was evil in his eyes
that there was no justice.
Jeremiah 5:27-29
27Like a cage full of birds,their houses are full of deceit;
therefore they have become great and rich;
28 qthey have grown fat and sleek.
They know no bounds in deeds of evil;
rthey judge not with justice
the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper,
and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
29 sShall I not punish them for these things?
declares the Lord,
and shall I not avenge myself
on a nation such as this?”
Jeremiah 12:1
Jeremiah’s Complaint
1 tRighteous are you, O Lord,when I complain to you;
yet I would plead my case before you.
uWhy does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why do all vwho are treacherous thrive?
Jeremiah 12:6
6For weven your brothers and the house of your father,xeven they have dealt treacherously with you;
they are in full cry after you;
ydo not believe them,
though they speak friendly words to you.”
Jeremiah 26:8
8And when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, then zthe priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying, “You shall die!Jeremiah 26:21-23
21And when aaKing Jehoiakim, with all his warriors and all the officials, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death. But when Uriah heard of it, he was afraid and fled and escaped to Egypt. 22Then abKing Jehoiakim sent to Egypt certain men, acElnathan the son of adAchbor and others with him, 23and they took Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, aewho struck him down with the sword and dumped his dead body into the burial place of the common people.
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