Poetry

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..................................Worth the Cost

............Give ear Yes hear the word of the Lord......................1:10
............................those sinful as Sodom..............................1:10
...............Children I've reared Like children of old....................1:2b 1:4A
................................Revolt and Rebel...................................2B
.........................Now My anger to far gone.............................14

.......Children oh please cleanse clean your bloody hands...........16A 15D
...........................Expunge your evil ways................................16b
....................For at you No longer shall I look..........................15b
..............................No, No longer shall I hear..........................15c
.....................Yes your sacrifice non-significant.........................11
..........................Your prayer par insincere...............................15c

..................Yes learn by heart - heartfelt ways.........................17a
...................Seek just and moral righteousness........................17b
..........Relieve the oppressed, Plead for the orphans..................17c 17d
...............And defend all widows donning distress.....................17e

...........Oh come saith the Lord Lets reason together.................18a
..................Yes, albeit your sins be of scarlet red......................18b
.......................But I'll make them white as snow.......................18c
................Yes to consent and obey, My loving ways..................19a
...................Ye shall eat from the good of the land....................19b
............But if you refuse and rebel, you'll be dispelled.................20
.............................By the sword of My mouth...........................20
...................No, My wrath, you will not withstand

..............................Oh faithful City of Peace...............................21
........................Once abounding with authority..........................21
..........................Now, no more than a harlot.............................21
.......................Yes, justice did once dwell in you........................21
..................Now murder's the measure of your lot.....................21

...........................And as for you young princes.........................23
........................Oh how Thou has fallen faithless........................23
...........................Befriending broods of thieves.........................23
..............And too you, found treasuring bribe tactics...................23
............While your reaching for rewards, is mere greed................23

......................Therefore sayeth the Lord of hosts......................24
..............................The mighty One of Isra-el............................24
..........................I will avenge Myself of enemy's..........................24
.................And find comfort, with my opposers in hell..................24+

......................Yes, also will I restore all thy judges......................26
........................And too, thy counselors as of old.......................26
..................Plus destruction will now take the wicked....................28
...........................While of they that forsake Me...........................28
.....................Their consumption shall now take hold....................28

...................................Yes sayeth the Lord
.............................As I turn my hand to thee,.............................25
...................Sometimes painfully purging your dross....................25
............................I will also take your sin away...........................25
.........................Making your pain, worth the cost........................+

..............................And now Jerusalem is Zion............................26
.............................That city of faith and justice...........................26
....................And Zion will be redeemed in judgement...................27
...........That her repentant ones in righteousness do posses..........27

..................................................................David A

......Isaiah 1:10,1:2a,1:4a, 16a,15d,16b,15b,c,11,15c,17a,b,c,d,e,
................18a,b,c,19a,b,20,21,23,24,26,28,25,26,27

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