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19 (A)If you are willing and obedient,
    you shall eat the good of the land;
20 but if you refuse and rebel,
    you shall be eaten by the sword;
    (B)for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

The Unfaithful City

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

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:21 Or become unchaste

19 If you are willing and obedient,(A)
    you will eat the good things of the land;(B)
20 but if you resist and rebel,(C)
    you will be devoured by the sword.”(D)
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.(E)

21 See how the faithful city
    has become a prostitute!(F)
She once was full of justice;
    righteousness(G) used to dwell in her—
    but now murderers!(H)

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