23:001:020 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be
devoured with the
sword:
for the mouth of the lord hath spoken it.
23:001:021 How is the faithful city become an harlot!
it was full of
judgment;
righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
23:001:022 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
23:001:023 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions
of thieves: every
one
loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they
judge not
the
fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come
unto
them.
23:001:024 Therefore saith the lord, the lord
of hosts, the mighty One of
Israel,
Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge
me
of
mine enemies:
23:001:025 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and
purely purge away thy
dross,
and take away all thy tin:
23:001:026 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.
23:001:027 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and
her converts with
righteousness.
23:001:028 And the destruction of the transgressors
and of the sinners
shall
be together, and they that forsake the lord shall
be
consumed.
23:001:029 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which
ye have desired,
and
ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have
chosen.
23:001:030 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth,
and as a garden
that
hath no water.
23:001:031 And the strong shall be as tow, and the
maker of it as a
spark,
and they shall both burn together, and none shall
quench
them.
23:002:001 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw
concerning Judah and
Jerusalem.
23:002:002 And it shall come to pass in the last days,
that the mountain
of
the LORD’s house shall be established in the
top of the
mountains,
and shall be exalted above the hills; and all
nations
shall flow unto it.
23:002:003 And many people shall go and say, Come
ye, and let us go up to
the
mountain of the lord, to the house of the God
of Jacob;
and
he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his
paths:
for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word
of
the
lord from Jerusalem.
23:002:004 And he shall judge among the nations, and
shall rebuke many
people:
and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and
their
spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift
up sword
against
nation, neither shall they learn war any more.


