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22 Your silver has become slag.[a]
Your drinks are mixed with water.
23 Your officials are rebellious.
They are partners with thieves.
Everyone loves bribes and chases payoffs.
They do not obtain justice for the fatherless,
and they do not take up the cause of the widow.

24 Therefore the Lord, the Lord of Armies,
the Mighty One of Israel, says:
    I must certainly get relief from my adversaries.
    I will avenge myself on my enemies.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:22 Or dross. Slag and dross are waste materials that are left after refining metal.