Week 2, Day 4

Isaiah 1: 21-27

Oh! Can you believe it? The chaste city has become a whore! She was once all justice, everyone living as good neighbours, and now they’re all at one another’s throats. Your coins are all counterfeits. Your wine is watered down. Your leaders are turncoats who keep company with crooks. They sell themselves to the highest bidder and grab anything not nailed down. They never stand up for the homeless, never stick up for the defenceless.

This Decree, therefore, of the Master, GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies, the Strong One of Israel: ‘This is it! I’ll get my oppressors off my back. I’ll get back at my enemies. I’ll give you the back of my hand, purge the junk from your life, clean you up. I’ll set honest judges and wise counsellors among you just like it was back in the beginning. Then you’ll be renamed City-That-Treats-People-Right, the True-Blue City.’ GOD’s right ways will put Zion right again. GOD’s right actions will restore her penitents.