20 but if you refuse and rebel,
    you shall be eaten by the sword;
    (A)for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

The Unfaithful City

21 How the faithful city
    (B)has become a whore,[a]
    (C)she who was full of justice!
Righteousness lodged in her,
    but now murderers.
22 (D)Your silver has become dross,
    your best wine mixed with water.
23 Your princes are rebels
    and companions of thieves.
Everyone (E)loves a bribe
    and runs after gifts.
(F)They do not bring justice to the fatherless,
    and the widow's cause does not come to them.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:21 Or become unchaste

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