{"id":113430,"date":"2019-09-20T00:09:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T07:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=113430"},"modified":"2019-09-02T10:10:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T17:10:35","slug":"if-isaiah-were-writing-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2019\/09\/if-isaiah-were-writing-today.html","title":{"rendered":"If Isaiah were writing today"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Hear the word of the LORD,<br>\nyou rulers of Sodom!<br>\nGive ear to the teaching of our God,<br>\nyou people of Gomorrah!<br>\n\u201cWhat to me is the multitude of your thoughts and prayers?<br>\nsays the LORD;<br>\nI have had enough of coffee cup controversies<br>\nand Precious Feet pins;<br>\nI do not delight in your phony prayer rallies for America,<br>\nor in special seed donations, or in magical prayer cloths.<br>\n\u201cWhen you come to appear before me,<br>\nwho requires of you<br>\nthis trampling of my courts?<br>\nBring no more vain offerings;<br>\nMedjugore trinkets are an abomination to me.<br>\nPress conferences and rolexes and the calling of donors\u2014<br>\nI cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly.<br>\nYour gun shows and your prayer breakfasts<br>\nmy soul hates;<br>\nthey have become a burden to me,<br>\nI am weary of bearing them.<br>\nWhen you spread forth your hands,<br>\nI will hide my eyes from you;<br>\neven though you make many prayers,<br>\nI will not listen;<br>\nyour hands are full of blood.<br>\nWash yourselves; make yourselves clean;<br>\nremove the evil of your doings<br>\nfrom before my eyes;<br>\ncease to do evil,<br>\nlearn to do good;<br>\nseek justice,<br>\ncorrect oppression;<br>\ndefend the fatherless,<br>\nplead for the widow. 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