God
tells His People Why their Prayers are Not Being Heard
God tells His People Why their
Sacrifices are Not
Accepted
Why is it that
after millions of Masses and Rosaries the world continues to sink into
a cesspool?
The answer is clearly spelled out in
the...
Book of the Prophet Isaiah,
Chapter 1
1 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. 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth:
for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and
they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel
doth not know, my people doth not consider. 4 Ah sinful
nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children
that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked
the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more
and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 6
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in
it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been
closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. 7 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.
8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as
a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. 9 Except the Lord
of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as
Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. 10 Hear the
word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God,
ye people of Gomorrah. 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your
sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full 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.
12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at
your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations;
incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the
calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the
solemn meeting.
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they
are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. 15 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.
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from
before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment,
relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 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. 19 If ye be willing and obedient,
ye shall eat the good of the land:
20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with
the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. 21 How is the
faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness
lodged in it; but now murderers. 22 Thy silver is become dross, thy
wine mixed with water: 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.
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: 25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away
thy dross, and take away all thy tin: 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. 27
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with
righteousness.
28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners
shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed. 29
For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye
shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. 30 For ye
shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no
water. 31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a
spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
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