{"id":23857,"date":"2017-09-30T15:21:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T21:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accesstogod.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/30\/isaiah-11-31-bible-in-basic-english\/"},"modified":"2017-09-30T15:21:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T21:21:40","slug":"isaiah-11-31-bible-in-basic-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.accesstogod.com\/?p=23857","title":{"rendered":"Isaiah 1:1-31 (Bible in Basic English)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-4647651612525789\"; \/* access2God_horiz_4_link_single_post *\/ google_ad_slot = \"7824248799\"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 15;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<strong>1<\/strong> The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he saw about Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. <\/br><strong>2<\/strong> Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me. <\/br><strong>3<\/strong> Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me. <\/br><strong>4<\/strong> O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him. <\/br><strong>5<\/strong> Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble. <\/br><strong>6<\/strong> The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds. <\/br><strong>7<\/strong> Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands. <\/br><strong>8<\/strong> And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman&#8217;s house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies. <\/br><strong>9<\/strong> If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours. <\/br><strong>10<\/strong> Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah. <\/br><strong>11<\/strong> What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats. <\/br><strong>12<\/strong> At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet? <\/br><strong>13<\/strong> Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings. <\/br><strong>14<\/strong> Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them. <\/br><strong>15<\/strong> And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood. <\/br><strong>16<\/strong> Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning; <\/br><strong>17<\/strong> Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow. <\/br><strong>18<\/strong> Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool? <\/br><strong>19<\/strong> If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours; <\/br><strong>20<\/strong> But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said. <\/br><strong>21<\/strong> The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men&#8217;s lives. <\/br><strong>22<\/strong> Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water. <\/br><strong>23<\/strong> Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them. <\/br><strong>24<\/strong> For this reason the Lord, the Lord of armies, the Strong One of Israel, has said, I will put an end to my haters, and send punishment on those who are against me; <\/br><strong>25<\/strong> And my hand will again be on you, washing away what is unclean as with soap, and taking away all your false metal; <\/br><strong>26<\/strong> And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town. <\/br><strong>27<\/strong> Upright acts will be the price of Zion&#8217;s forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there. <\/br><strong>28<\/strong> But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off. <\/br><strong>29<\/strong> For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure. <\/br><strong>30<\/strong> For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water. <\/br><strong>31<\/strong> And the strong will be as food for the fire, and his work as a flame; and they will be burned together, with no one to put out the fire. <\/br><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    google_ad_client = \"ca-pub-4647651612525789\";\n    google_ad_slot = \"6844414800\";\n    google_ad_width = 320;\n    google_ad_height = 100;\n<\/script><br \/>\n<!-- a2g_320x100_more_for_mobile --><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- a2g_responsive_link_ads --><br \/>\n<ins 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