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. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend [the] orphan and [the] legal dispute of [the] widow does not come before them.

I send him against a godless nation, and I command him against the people of my wrath, to capture spoil and to carry off plunder, and to make them a trampling place, like [the] clay of [the] streets.

For it [is] a people of rebellion, deceitful children, children [who are] not willing to hear the instruction of Yahweh,

Now the men of Sodom {were extremely wicked sinners against Yahweh}.

Come to me, all [of you] who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.

"[You] stiff-necked [people] and uncircumcised in hearts and in [your] ears! You constantly resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers [did], [so] also [do] you!

because her sins have reached up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.

A seed

"But you, come near here, you children of a soothsayer, offspring [of] an adulterer and she [who] commits fornication.

Behold, you stand in the place of your fathers, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more {Yahweh's fierce anger} against Israel.

and not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation [that] did not make ready its heart, whose spirit was not faithful [to] God.

Yet they have not listened to me and they have not inclined their ear, but they have hardened their neck, they did more evil than their ancestors.

Then you shall say to them, '{Because} your ancestors have forsaken me,' {declares} Yahweh, 'and they have gone after other gods, and they have served them, and they have bowed down in worship to them, and they have forsaken me, and they have not kept my laws.

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

Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How will you escape from the condemnation to hell?

Children

How well you do [on] your way to seek love! {Therefore} even [to] the wicked [woman] you can teach your ways.

To all prostitutes they give a fee, but you, you gave your gifts to all of your lovers, and you bribed them to come to you from all around in your whorings!

Provoked

For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen because their speech and their deeds [are] against Yahweh, defying the eyes of his glory.

the people {who provoke} me to anger continually to my face, slaughtering for sacrifices in the garden, and making smoke offerings on bricks,

Then Yahweh saw, and he spurned [them], because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and vexed him in [the] wasteland!

[Are] they provoking me to anger? " {declares} Yahweh, "[Is it] not themselves [they hurt], for the sake of the shame of their faces?"

Or are we attempting to provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than he [is, are we]?

The holy

those who say, "Let him make haste; let him hurry his work so that we may see it and let it draw near and let the plan of the holy one of Israel come so that we may know [it]!"

Inhabitant of Zion, shout out and sing for joy, for the holy one of Israel [is] great in your midst."

And [the] meek {have joy after joy} in Yahweh, and [the] needy of [the] people shall rejoice in the holy one of Israel.

turn aside from [the] way, turn aside from [the] path, put an end to the holy one of Israel from our face."

Whom have you taunted and blasphemed, and against whom have you raised up [your] voice and lifted your eyes upward? To the holy one of Israel!

You must not fear, O worm of Jacob; people of Israel, I myself, I will help you," {declares} Yahweh, "and your redeemer [is] the holy one of Israel.

because our shield belongs to Yahweh, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.

Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend [the] bow. Encamp all around her, there must not be for her an escape. Take revenge on her according to her deeds. According to all that she has done, [so] do to her. For against Yahweh she has behaved insolently, against the Holy One of Israel.

For neither Israel nor Judah [is] a widower from their God, from Yahweh 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 from [the] belly, speaking lies.

Thus says Yahweh: "What injustice did your ancestors find in me that they were far from me, and they went after the vanity, and they became vain?

because the mindset of the flesh [is] enmity toward God, for [it is] not subjected to the law of God, for [it is] not able [to do so],

Now I rejoice in my sufferings on behalf of you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking of the afflictions of Christ, on behalf of his body which is the church,