The Corrupt City and the Promise of Purification

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How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

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Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.

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Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don’t judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

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Therefore the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, says: “Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself on my enemies;

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and I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.

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I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness, a faithful town.’

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Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.

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But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

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For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.

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For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.

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The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. They will both burn together, and no one will quench them.”

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