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

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. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.

Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the LORD;

Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the LORD.

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

"You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.

for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

A seed

But you, draw near, sons of the sorceress, offspring of the adulterer and the loose woman.

And behold, you have risen in your fathers' place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the LORD against Israel!

and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.

then you shall say to them: 'Because your fathers have forsaken me, declares the LORD, and have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law,

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Children

"How well you direct your course to seek love! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways.

Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings.

Provoked

For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the LORD, defying his glorious presence.

a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and making offerings on bricks;

"The LORD saw it and spurned them, 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!

Is it I whom they provoke? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves, to their own shame?

Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

The holy

who say: "Let him be quick, let him speed his work that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near, and let it come, that we may know it!"

Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel."

The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the LORD, and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.

leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel."

"'Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I am the one who helps you, declares the LORD; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

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

"Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her according to all that she has done. For she has proudly defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the LORD of hosts, but the land of the Chaldeans is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

Gone away backward

The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.

Thus says the LORD: "What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,