August 7th 2022 9th Sunday after Pentecost Isaiah 1:11-20

8 August 2022 • Pastor Matt Huckel • for the 9th Sunday after Pentecost
Bible Passage: Isaiah 1:11-20
+ expand11 What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord; I have had enough of
burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
or of lambs, or of goats. 12 When you come to appear before me, who asked this from
your hand? Trample my courts no more; 13 bringing offerings is futile; incense is an
abomination to me. New moon and sabbath and calling of convocation– I cannot
endure solemn assemblies with iniquity.
14 Your new moons and your appointed festivals my soul hates; they have become a
burden to me, I am weary of bearing them. 15 When you stretch out your hands, I will
hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your
hands are full of blood. 16 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil
of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, 17 learn to do good; seek justice,
rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.
18 Come now, let us argue it out, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they
shall be like snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. 19 If
you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; 20 but if you refuse
and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
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