Curtis L Foreman
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highlighted Isaiah 1:29-31 NLT
You will be ashamed of your idol worship in groves of sacred oaks. You will blush because you worshiped in gardens dedicated to idols. You will be like a great tree with withered leaves, like a garden without water. The strongest among you will disappear like straw; their evil deeds will be the spark that sets it on fire. They and their evil works will burn up together, and no one will be able to put out the fire.
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Curtis L Foreman
highlighted Isaiah 1:28 NLT
But rebels and sinners will be completely destroyed, and those who desert the LORD will be consumed.
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highlighted Isaiah 1:27 NLT
Zion will be restored by justice; those who repent will be revived by righteousness.
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highlighted Isaiah 1:26 NLT
Then I will give you good judges again and wise counselors like you used to have. Then Jerusalem will again be called the Home of Justice and the Faithful City.”
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highlighted Isaiah 1:25 NLT
I will raise my fist against you. I will melt you down and skim off your slag. I will remove all your impurities.
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highlighted Isaiah 1:24 NLT
Therefore, the Lord, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says, “I will take revenge on my enemies and pay back my foes!
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highlighted Isaiah 1:14-22 NLT
I hate your new moon celebrations and your annual festivals. They are a burden to me. I cannot stand them! When you lift up your hands in prayer, I will not look. Though you offer many prayers, I will not listen, for your hands are covered with the blood of innocent victims. Wash yourselves and be clean! Get your sins out of my sight. Give up your evil ways. Learn to do good. Seek justice. Help the oppressed. Defend the cause of orphans. Fight for the rights of widows. “Come now, let’s settle this,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, I will make them as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, I will make them as white as wool. If you will only obey me, you will have plenty to eat. But if you turn away and refuse to listen, you will be devoured by the sword of your enemies. I, the LORD, have spoken!” See how Jerusalem, once so faithful, has become a prostitute. Once the home of justice and righteousness, she is now filled with murderers. Once like pure silver, you have become like worthless slag. Once so pure, you are now like watered-down wine.
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Curtis L Foreman
highlighted Isaiah 1:23 NLT
Your leaders are rebels, the companions of thieves. All of them love bribes and demand payoffs, but they refuse to defend the cause of orphans or fight for the rights of widows.
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Curtis L Foreman
highlighted Isaiah 1:13 NLT
Stop bringing me your meaningless gifts; the incense of your offerings disgusts me! As for your celebrations of the new moon and the Sabbath and your special days for fasting— they are all sinful and false. I want no more of your pious meetings.
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highlighted Isaiah 1:12 NLT
When you come to worship me, who asked you to parade through my courts with all your ceremony?
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highlighted Isaiah 1:11 NLT
“What makes you think I want all your sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am sick of your burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fattened cattle. I get no pleasure from the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
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highlighted Isaiah 1:10 NLT
Listen to the LORD, you leaders of “Sodom.” Listen to the law of our God, people of “Gomorrah.”
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highlighted Isaiah 1:8 NLT
Beautiful Jerusalem stands abandoned like a watchman’s shelter in a vineyard, like a lean-to in a cucumber field after the harvest, like a helpless city under siege.
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highlighted Isaiah 1:4 NLT
Oh, what a sinful nation they are— loaded down with a burden of guilt. They are evil people, corrupt children who have rejected the LORD. They have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him.
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Curtis L Foreman
highlighted Isaiah 1:1 NLT
These are the visions that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. He saw these visions during the years when Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were kings of Judah.
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highlighted 2 Chronicles 28:27 NLT
When Ahaz died, he was buried in Jerusalem but not in the royal cemetery of the kings of Judah. Then his son Hezekiah became the next king.
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highlighted 2 Chronicles 28:25 NLT
He made pagan shrines in all the towns of Judah for offering sacrifices to other gods. In this way, he aroused the anger of the LORD, the God of his ancestors.
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highlighted 2 Chronicles 28:24 NLT
The king took the various articles from the Temple of God and broke them into pieces. He shut the doors of the LORD’s Temple so that no one could worship there, and he set up altars to pagan gods in every corner of Jerusalem.
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highlighted 2 Chronicles 28:22 NLT
Even during this time of trouble, King Ahaz continued to reject the LORD.
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highlighted 2 Chronicles 28:19 NLT
The LORD was humbling Judah because of King Ahaz of Judah, for he had encouraged his people to sin and had been utterly unfaithful to the LORD.
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