[DailyReading] Cleansing and obedience required

[Daily Bible Readings]

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Reading: Cleansing and obedience required  2012-07-21
Reference:  Isa. 1:16-27 

Isa 1:16: Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Isa 1:17: Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Isa 1:18: Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isa 1:19: If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
Isa 1:20: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it .
Isa 1:21: How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
Isa 1:22: Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
Isa 1:23: Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Isa 1:24: Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
Isa 1:25: And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
Isa 1:26: And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
Isa 1:27: Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
(KJV)