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 chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.

For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord:

Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.

Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.

You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

For her sins have gone up even to heaven, and God has taken note of her evil-doing.

A seed

But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.

And now you have come to take the place of your fathers, another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord against Israel.

And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

But still they took no note and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff, doing worse than their fathers.

Then you will say to them, Because your fathers have given me up, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and become their servants and their worshippers, and have given me up and have not kept my law;

But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?

You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?

Children

With what care are your ways ordered when you are looking for love! so ... your ways.

They give payment to all loose women: but you give rewards to your lovers, offering them payment so that they may come to you on every side for your cheap love.

Provoked

For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord, moving the eyes of his glory to wrath.

A people who make me angry every day, making offerings in gardens, and burning perfumes on bricks.

And the Lord saw with disgust the evil-doing of his sons and daughters.

How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!

Are they moving me to wrath? says the Lord; are they not moving themselves to their shame?

Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?

The holy

Who say, Let him do his work quickly, let him make it sudden, so that we may see it: let the design of the Holy One of Israel come near, so that it may be clear to us.

Let your voice be sounding in a cry of joy, O daughter of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.

And the poor will have their joy in the Lord increased, and those in need will be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

Get out of the good way, turning from the right road; do not keep the Holy One of Israel before our minds.

Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.

Have no fear, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will be your helper, says the Lord, even he who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel.

For our breastplate is the Lord; and our king is the Holy One of Israel's.

Send for the archers to come together against Babylon, all the bowmen; put up your tents against her on every side; let no one get away: give her the reward of her work; as she has done, so do to her: for she has been uplifted in pride against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.

For Israel has not been given up, or Judah, by his God, by the Lord of armies; for their land is full of sin against the Holy One of Israel.

Gone away backward

The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.

These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?

Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:

Now I have joy in my pain because of you, and in my flesh I undergo whatever is still needed to make the sorrows of Christ complete, for the salvation of his body, the church;