Isaiah 1:21-28

²¹How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.

²²Thy silver is turned into dress: thy wine is mingled with water.

²³Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, the run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow’s cometh not in to them.

²⁴Therefore saith the Lord the God of hosts, the mighty one of Israel: Ah! I will comfort myself over my adversaries: and I will be revenged of my enemies.

²⁵And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dress, and I will take away all thy tin.

²⁶And I will restore thy judges as they were before, and thy counsellors as of old. After this thou shalt be called the city of the just, a faithful city.

²⁷Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring her back in justice.

²⁸And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and they that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed.