The Corrupt City and the Promise of Purification

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How the faithful city has become a whore! Once she was filled with justice, righteousness lodged in her; but now murderers!

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Your silver is no longer pure, your wine is watered down.

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Your leaders are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and run after gifts. They give no justice to orphans, the widow's complaint doesn't catch their attention.

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"Therefore," says the Lord, ADONAI-Tzva'ot, the Mighty One of Isra'el, "I will free myself of my adversaries, I will take vengeance on my enemies.

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But I will also turn my hand against you! I will cleanse your impurities as with lye and remove all your alloyed base metal.

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I will restore your judges as at first and your advisers as at the beginning. After that, you will be called the City of Righteousness, Faithful City.

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Tziyon will be redeemed by justice; and those in her who repent, by righteousness.

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"Rebels and sinners together will be broken and those who abandon ADONAI be consumed.

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You will be ashamed of the sacred oaks you desired, you will blush at the gardens you chose;

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for you will be like an oak whose leaf fades, like a garden without any water.

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The strong will be like tinder and [the idol's] maker like a spark; both will burn together, and no one will put them out."

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