Isaiah, Chapter 1 -- A radical interpretation
Maybe I read a different translation. I just went to fetch my KJV, and it matches what you are relating. I am surprised at my false memory (or a memory of a different translation--but I was remembering it as from my own copy, here, so...? I also remember a warning about, "If you do not obey, your landscape will be ruined [paraphrase]", etc. The description presaged Socrates' warning about a need for more cow pasture driving deforestation, and that leading to soil erosion. But when I looked for that specific point about a devastated landscape, I did not find what I was remembering. Maybe I did not search far enough into the book. 12:11 AM On the false memory — that's remarkably common with scripture, and especially with Isaiah, which has been translated so many times and in such varied registers. The Message Bible, for instance, renders passages in strikingly colloquial language that can lodge differently in memory than the KJV. It's quite possible you encountere...