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19 If you’re willing and obedient,
    you’ll eat the best that the land produces;
20 but[a] if you refuse and rebel,
    you’ll be devoured by the sword,[b]
        because the Lord[c] has spoken.”

Diagnosis and Judgment

21 “How the faithful city
    has become a whore,
        she who used to be filled with justice!
Righteousness used to reside within her,
    but now only murderers live there.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:20 So 1QIsaa LXX Targ Syr; 4QIsaf lacks but
  2. Isaiah 1:20 So 1QIsaa Targ Syr; LXX reads the sword will devour you
  3. Isaiah 1:20 Lit. Lord’s mouth

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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