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 princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth presents, and hunteth after rewards; they judge not the fatherless, and the cause of the widow cometh not unto them.

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

that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;

And the people of Sodom were wicked, and great sinners before Jehovah.

Come to me, all ye who labour and are burdened, and I will give you rest.

O stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers, ye also.

for her sins have been heaped on one another up to the heaven, and God has remembered her unrighteousnesses.

A seed

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

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

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

but they have not hearkened unto me, nor inclined their ear; and they have hardened their neck: they have done worse than their fathers.

then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith Jehovah, 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 seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of vipers, who has forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should ye escape the judgment of hell?

Children

How dost thou trim thy way to seek love! Therefore hast thou also accustomed thy ways to wickedness.

They give rewards to all harlots; but thou gavest thy rewards to all thy lovers, and rewardedst them, that they might come unto thee on every side for thy whoredoms.

Provoked

For Jerusalem stumbleth and Judah falleth, because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

the people that provoke me to anger continually to my face, sacrificing in gardens and burning incense upon the bricks;

And Jehovah saw it, and despised them, Because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters.

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

Is it I whom they provoke to anger? saith Jehovah; is it not themselves, to the shame of their own face?

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

The holy

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

Cry out and shout, thou inhabitress of Zion; for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

and the meek shall increase their joy in Jehovah, and the needy among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us!

Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted the voice? Against the Holy One of Israel hast thou lifted up thine eyes on high.

Fear not, thou worm Jacob, ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith Jehovah, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

For Jehovah is our shield, and the Holy One of Israel, our king.

Call together the archers against Babylon, all those that bend the bow: encamp against her round about; let there be no escaping: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath acted proudly against Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel.

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

Gone away backward

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

Thus saith Jehovah: What injustice have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and become vain?

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be:

Now, I rejoice in sufferings for you, and I fill up that which is behind of the tribulations of Christ in my flesh, for his body, which is the assembly;