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

Thy rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They judge not the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.

I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath. I will give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

For it is a rebellious people, lying sons, sons who will not hear the law of LORD,

Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against LORD.

Come to me, all ye who labor and have been burdened, and I will give you rest.

Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers, ye also.

Because her sins have reached as far as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

A seed

But draw near here, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.

And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of LORD toward Israel.

and might not be as their fathers: a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Yet they hearkened not to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.

Then thou shall say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, Ye offspring of vipers, who showed you to flee from the coming wrath?

Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how will ye escape from the damnation of hell?

Children

How thou trim thy way to seek love! Therefore even the wicked women thou have taught thy ways.

They give gifts to all harlots, but thou give thy gifts to all thy lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to thee on every side for thy whoredoms.

Provoked

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen, because their tongue and their doings are against LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks,

And LORD saw, and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

Do they provoke me to anger? says LORD, [and] not themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

The holy

who say, Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it. And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!

Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion, for great in the midst of thee is the Holy One of Israel.

The meek also shall increase their joy in LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

You get out of the way. Turn aside out of the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

Whom have thou defied and blasphemed? And against whom have thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? [Even] against the Holy One of Israel.

Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel. I will help thee, says LORD, and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

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

Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp against her round about; let none thereof escape. Recompense her according to her work. According to all that she has done, do to her. For she has been p

For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of LORD of hosts, though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

Gone away backward

The wicked are estranged from the womb. They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Thus says LORD: What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

Because the mentality of the flesh is enmity against God, for it is not submissive to the law of God, for neither is it able.

I now rejoice in sufferings for you, and make complete in my flesh things lacking of the afflictions of the Christ for his body, which is the church.