Isaiah 1:4

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Isaiah 1:4

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Summary

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

Ah sinful

Revelation 18:5

A seed

Matthew 23:33

Children

Jeremiah 2:33

Ezekiel 16:33

Provoked

The holy

Gone away backward

Bible References

Ah sinful

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. All of them are lovers of bribes and are runners after gifts. They don't bring justice to orphans, and the widow's case never comes up for review in their court."

I'm sending my fury against a godless nation, and I'll command him against the people with whom I'm angry to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets.

For they are a rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to hear the LORD's instruction.

Now the men of Sodom were particularly evil and sinful in their defiance of the LORD.

"Come to me, all of you who are weary and loaded down with burdens, and I will give you rest.

"You stubborn people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.

For her sins are piled as high as heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.

A seed

"But as for you, come here, you children of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!

And now, look! You're acting just like your ancestors, like a brood of sinful men, who are provoking the fierce anger of the LORD against the Israelis one step at a time.

They will not be like the rebellious generation of their ancestors, a rebellious generation, whose heart was not steadfast, and whose spirits were unfaithful to God.

But they didn't listen to me, and they didn't pay attention. They stiffened their necks, and they did more evil than their ancestors.

Then say to them, "It is because your ancestors abandoned me,' declares the LORD. "They followed other gods, served them, worshipped them, abandoned me, and didn't keep my Law.

But when John saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he told them, "You children of serpents! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

You snakes, you children of serpents! How can you escape being condemned to hell?

Children

How well you perfect your techniques for seeking love. Therefore you can teach even the most immoral women your techniques.

"All prostitutes receive gifts, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, then you bribe them to come to you from everywhere to get your sexual favors!

Provoked

"For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because what they say and do opposes the LORD; they keep defying him.

a people who continually provoke me to my face; they keep sacrificing in gardens and waving their hands over stone altars;

The LORD saw it and became jealous, provoked by his sons and daughters.

How they rebelled against him in the desert, grieving him in the wilderness!

Are they provoking me?" asks the LORD. "Is it not themselves, and to their own shame?"

or you'll provoke the Lord to jealousy, won't you? Are we stronger than he is?

The holy

who say: "Let God be quick, let him speed up his work so we may see it! Let it happen! let the plan of the Holy One of Israel draw near, so we may recognize it!'"

Shout aloud, and sing for joy, you who live in Zion, because great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel."

The humble will again experience joy in the LORD, and the poorest people will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

get out of the way, turn aside from the path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel."

Whom have you insulted and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Don't be afraid, you little worm Jacob, and you insects of Israel! I myself will help you,' declares the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel."

Indeed, our shield belongs to the LORD, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.

"Summon many to Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Camp all around her, let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds. Do to her just as she has done. For she has behaved arrogantly against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.

Indeed, Israel and Judah haven't been abandoned by their God, by the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, although their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel."

Gone away backward

The wicked go astray from the womb; they go astray, telling lies even from birth.

This is what the LORD says: "What did your ancestors find wrong with me that they left me, and pursued worthless things, and so they became worthless?

That is why the mind that focuses on human nature is hostile toward God. It refuses to submit to the authority of God's Law because it is powerless to do so.

Now I am rejoicing while suffering for you as I complete in my flesh whatever remains of the Messiah's sufferings on behalf of his body, which is the church.