71 Days of Isaiah Plan

²¹How the faithful city has become a whore, she who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

²²Your silver has become dross, your best wine mixed with water.

²³Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.

²⁴Therefore the Lord declares, the LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: “Ah, I will get relief from my enemies and avenge myself on my foes.

²⁵I will turn my hand against you and will smelt away your dross as with lye and remove all your alloy.

²⁶And 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, the faithful city.”

²⁷Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who repent, by righteousness.

²⁸But rebels and sinners shall be broken together, and those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

²⁹For they shall be ashamed of the oaks that you desired; and you shall blush for the gardens that you have chosen.

³⁰For you shall be like an oak whose leaf withers, and like a garden without water.

³¹And the strong shall become tinder, and his work a spark, and both of them shall burn together, with none to quench them.