Though Your Sins Be Scarlet (Isaiah 1:1-2:5)

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Though Your Sins Be Scarlet

Isaiah 1:1-2:5

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Isaiah 1:1-2:5

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This song belongs to the Isaiah collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

Bible book: Isaiah
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[Litany] The ox knows the hand that fills the stall, Wash, turn, learn to do what is right, But Judah forgot the One who raised them all. Scarlet can fade in the covenant light. Incense climbed while justice bled below, Wash, turn, learn to do what is right, A spotless feast could not disguise the woe. Scarlet can fade in the covenant light. [Verse 2] Defend the fatherless, answer the widow’s cry, Let proud hands fall and empty altars die. The faithful city will be refined like ore, Her judges restored, her shame no more. [Refrain] Wash, turn, learn to do what is right, Scarlet can fade in the covenant light. [Bridge] A mountain shall rise where the nations ascend, The sword meets the hammer and wars find an end. From Zion the word, from Jerusalem peace, Come, house of Jacob, walk while there is light. [Final Chorus] Wash, turn, learn to do what is right, Scarlet can fade in the covenant light. Come, house of Jacob, walk while there is light.

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Isaiah 1: A crowded temple and a city full of blood

Isaiah opens by putting Judah in the uncomfortable position of a child who has forgotten the hand that raised it. The images keep changing, but the charge does not soften: an untreated body, a besieged field hut, bloodied hands lifted in prayer, silver gone to dross, wine diluted with water. Religious activity is everywhere, yet justice for the oppressed, the fatherless, and the widow is missing where it should be easiest to find. The chapter refuses both easy despair and easy reassurance. Zion is not discarded, but neither is its survival mistaken for approval. Cleansing has moral content, restoration passes through judgment, and the faithful city's old name is recovered only after the corruption attached to it is burned away. Isaiah ends where he began, with dependence exposed: the chosen garden cannot water itself.

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Isaiah 2: The mountain rises and human grandeur falls

Isaiah 2 begins with one of the book's great reversals of motion: nations flow uphill toward the LORD's mountain because instruction is going out from Zion. Weapons are remade for cultivation and war itself becomes something no longer studied. That future exposes Judah's present fullness. Its land is crowded with silver, gold, horses, chariots, imported practices, and handmade gods, yet none of that abundance produces the understanding the nations seek. The rest of the chapter is organized by height. Proud looks, trees, mountains, towers, walls, and ships all enter a catalogue of things that seem impressive enough to stand. They do not. People who trusted visible grandeur end up crawling into rocks while their precious idols are discarded to creatures of the dark. Only the LORD's exaltation survives the leveling, and Isaiah ends by reducing human grandeur to a breath in the nostrils.

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