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    "book": "isaiah",
    "chapter": 1
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    "n": 1,
    "bookSlug": "isaiah",
    "bookCode": "ISA",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "ISA-1:1",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.1",
        "text": "The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "ISA-1:2",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.2",
        "text": "Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for Jehovah hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "ISA-1:3",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.3",
        "text": "The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master`s crib; [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "ISA-1:4",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.4",
        "text": "Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly! they have forsaken Jehovah, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged [and gone] backward."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "ISA-1:5",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.5",
        "text": "Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "ISA-1:6",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.6",
        "text": "From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "ISA-1:7",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.7",
        "text": "Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "ISA-1:8",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.8",
        "text": "And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "ISA-1:9",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.9",
        "text": "Except Jehovah of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "ISA-1:10",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.10",
        "text": "Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "ISA-1:11",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.11",
        "text": "What unto me is the multitude of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah: I have had enough of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "ISA-1:12",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.12",
        "text": "When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample my courts?"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "ISA-1:13",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.13",
        "text": "Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies,- I cannot away with iniquity and the solemn meeting."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "ISA-1:14",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.14",
        "text": "Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I am weary of bearing them."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "ISA-1:15",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.15",
        "text": "And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "ISA-1:16",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.16",
        "text": "Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "ISA-1:17",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.17",
        "text": "learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "ISA-1:18",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.18",
        "text": "Come now, and let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "ISA-1:19",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.19",
        "text": "If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "ISA-1:20",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.20",
        "text": "but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "ISA-1:21",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.21",
        "text": "How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "ISA-1:22",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.22",
        "text": "Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "ISA-1:23",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.23",
        "text": "Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "ISA-1:24",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.24",
        "text": "Therefore saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies;"
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "ISA-1:25",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.25",
        "text": "and I will turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy dross, and will take away all thy tin;"
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "ISA-1:26",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.26",
        "text": "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, a faithful town."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "ISA-1:27",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.27",
        "text": "Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "ISA-1:28",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.28",
        "text": "But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and they that forsake Jehovah shall be consumed."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "ISA-1:29",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.29",
        "text": "For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "ISA-1:30",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.30",
        "text": "For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "ISA-1:31",
        "verseRef": "Isa.1.31",
        "text": "And the strong shall be as tow, and his work as a spark; and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them."
      }
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