Isaiah 1:23

²³Your leaders are rebels, the companions of thieves. All of them love bribes and demand payoffs, but they refuse to defend the cause of orphans or fight for the rights of widows.

Isaiah 1 opens the book with a courtroom scene. God, through the prophet, summons heaven and earth as witnesses against His covenant people. Israel has rebelled, and their worship has become empty ritual while their hands are full of injustice. The chapter moves from indictment to a