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Text -- Isaiah 1:18-31 (NET)

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1:18 Come, let’s consider your options,” says the Lord. “Though your sins have stained you like the color red, you can become white like snow; though they are as easy to see as the color scarlet, you can become white like wool. 1:19 If you have a willing attitude and obey, then you will again eat the good crops of the land. 1:20 But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” Know for certain that the Lord has spoken.
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1:21 How tragic that the once-faithful city has become a prostitute! She was once a center of justice, fairness resided in her, but now only murderers. 1:22 Your silver has become scum, your beer is diluted with water. 1:23 Your officials are rebels, they associate with thieves. All of them love bribery, and look for payoffs. They do not take up the cause of the orphan, or defend the rights of the widow. 1:24 Therefore, the sovereign Lord who commands armies, the powerful ruler of Israel, says this: “Ah, I will seek vengeance against my adversaries, I will take revenge against my enemies. 1:25 I will attack you; I will purify your metal with flux. I will remove all your slag. 1:26 I will reestablish honest judges as in former times, wise advisers as in earlier days. Then you will be called, ‘The Just City, Faithful Town.’” 1:27 Zion will be freed by justice, and her returnees by righteousness. 1:28 All rebellious sinners will be shattered, those who abandon the Lord will perish. 1:29 Indeed, they will be ashamed of the sacred trees you find so desirable; you will be embarrassed because of the sacred orchards where you choose to worship. 1:30 For you will be like a tree whose leaves wither, like an orchard that is unwatered. 1:31 The powerful will be like a thread of yarn, their deeds like a spark; both will burn together, and no one will put out the fire.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel
 · Zion one of the hills on which Jerusalem was built; the temple area; the city of Jerusalem; God's people,a town and citidel; an ancient part of Jerusalem


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Isaiah, The Book of | Church | Israel | GOD, 2 | Dross | Idolatry | OAK | God | Sin | TIN | SEMITES, SEMITIC RELIGION | Afflictions and Adversities | Will | Snow | Reward | Condescension of God | Bribery | ESCHATOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT | Blessing | Salvation | more
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NET Notes: Isa 1:18 Heb “though your sins are like red, they will become white like snow; though they are red like scarlet, they will be like wool.” The point...

NET Notes: Isa 1:19 Heb “listen”; KJV “obedient”; NASB “If you consent and obey.”

NET Notes: Isa 1:20 Heb “for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” The introductory כִּי (ki) may be asseverative (as reflected in the tr...

NET Notes: Isa 1:21 Or “assassins.” This refers to the oppressive rich and/or their henchmen. R. Ortlund (Whoredom, 78) posits that it serves as a synecdoche ...

NET Notes: Isa 1:22 The metaphors of silver becoming impure and beer being watered down picture the moral and ethical degeneration that had occurred in Jerusalem.

NET Notes: Isa 1:23 The rich oppressors referred to in Isaiah and the other eighth century prophets were not rich capitalists in the modern sense of the word. They were m...

NET Notes: Isa 1:24 The Lord here identifies with the oppressed and comes as their defender and vindicator.

NET Notes: Isa 1:25 The metaphor comes from metallurgy; slag is the substance left over after the metallic ore has been refined.

NET Notes: Isa 1:26 Heb “I will restore your judges as in the beginning; and your counselors as in the beginning.” In this context, where social injustice and...

NET Notes: Isa 1:27 The Hebrew text has, “her repentant ones/returnees with righteousness.” The form שָׁבֶיהָ ...

NET Notes: Isa 1:28 Heb “and [there will be] a shattering of rebels and sinners together.”

NET Notes: Isa 1:29 Or “gardens” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “groves.”

NET Notes: Isa 1:30 Or “a garden” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

NET Notes: Isa 1:31 Heb “will become” (so NASB, NIV).

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