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 rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe, and is pursuing rewards; they do not judge the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.

I will send him against an ungodly nation, and against the people of My wrath. I will command him to take the plunder, and to strip off the spoil, and to trample them like the mud of the streets.

that this is a rebellious people, lying sons. They are sons who will not hear the Law of Jehovah;

But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before Jehovah, exceedingly so.

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

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

For her sins joined together, even up to Heaven, and God has remembered her unjust deeds.

A seed

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

And behold, you are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to add still more to the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel.

and might not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit was not faithful with God.

Yet they did not listen to Me, nor bow down their ear, but hardened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.

Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken Me, says Jehovah, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken Me, and have not kept My Law.

But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said to them, O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?

Children

Why did you trim your way to seek love? Therefore you have also taught the evil women your ways.

They give a gift to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them to come to you from all around, for your fornication.

Provoked

For Jerusalem is ruined and Judah has fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of His glory.

a people who without ceasing provoke Me to anger to My face; who sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense on the bricks;

And Jehovah saw, and despised them because of the provoking of His sons and of His daughters.

How often they provoked Him in the wilderness, and grieved Him in the desert!

Do they vex Me? says Jehovah. Is it not themselves, to the shame of their own faces?

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

The holy

who say, Let Him hurry and hasten His work, so that we may see it; and let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, so that we may know!

Cry out and shout, O dweller of Zion; for great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst.

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

go out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

Whom have you mocked and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Even against the Holy One of Israel.

Do not fear, worm of Jacob and men of Israel; I will help you, says Jehovah, and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

For Jehovah is our shield; yea, our King is the Holy One of Israel.

Make the archers hear against Babylon. All you who tread a bow, camp against it all around; let none of them escape. Repay her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her. For she has been proud against Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel.

For neither Israel nor Judah has been forsaken by his God, by Jehovah of Hosts, though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

Gone away backward

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

So says Jehovah, What injustice have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can it be.

who now rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and I fill up the things lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, on behalf of His body, which is the church;