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 rebels, friends with thieves. They all love bribes and run after gifts. They never defend orphans. They do not listen to the widows' pleas.

I send him against a godless nation. I commission him against the people of my fury to capture booty and to seize plunder, and to trample them down like mud (clay) in the streets.

These people are rebellious and deceitful children. They refuse to listen to Jehovah's Law.

The men of Sodom were wicked and sinned greatly against Jehovah.

Come unto me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

You obstinate men who are uncircumcised in heart and ears. You always resist the Holy Spirit as your fathers did.

For her sins have reached up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

A seed

But come here, you sons of the witch, you offspring of the adulterer and the prostitute!

You are just like your parents! You are a bunch of sinners trying to make Jehovah angry at Israel again.

They should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not prepare its heart and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear. Instead they stiffened their neck (became stubborn). They did more evil than their fathers.

Tell them: 'It is because your ancestors abandoned me,' says Jehovah. They followed other gods, served them, worshiped them, and abandoned me. They did not obey my law.

He saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism. You offspring of vipers, he said, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

You serpents! You offspring of vipers! How will you escape from being destroyed in the ever-burning fires of the Valley of Hinnom? (Greek: Gehenna, the trash fires in the valley just outside of Jerusalem)

Children

You carefully planned ways to look for love. You taught your ways to wicked women.

Prostitutes accept money for having sex, but you bribe men from everywhere to have sex with you.

Provoked

Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because what they say and what they do is against Jehovah! They are defiant in his honored presence.

a people who continually provoke me to my very face, offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on altars of brick.

Jehovah saw this and rejected them. His own sons and daughters made him angry.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness! How often they caused him grief in the desert!

Do they spite me? Asks Jehovah. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?

Do we provoke Jehovah to rivalry (indignation) (anger)? Are we stronger than he?

The holy

You say: Let Jehovah hurry up and do what he says he will, so that we can see it. Let Israel's holy God carry out his plans. Let us see what he has in mind.

Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.

The meek, the poor, and the needy will celebrate and shout because of Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel.

Get out of our way! Stop blocking our path! Get the Holy One of Israel out of our sight.'

Who is it you have insulted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? It is against the Holy One of Israel!

Do not be afraid, O worm Jacob, O little Israel, for I will help you. This is the declaration of Jehovah, your Redeemer, and the Holy One of Israel.

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

Call together the archers, the soldiers with bows, against Babylon. Set up blockades around it. Do not let anyone escape. Pay the people of Babylon back for what they have done. Do to them what they did to others. They have disobeyed Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel.

I, the Lord Jehovah, have not abandoned Israel and Judah, even though they have sinned against me, the Holy One of Israel.

Gone away backward

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born. They speak lies.

Jehovah says: What bad thing (injustice) did your fathers find in me that they went so far away from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless (lead astray) themselves.

This is because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God. It is not subject to the law of God for it cannot be.

I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake. I do my share in behalf of his body, the congregation, to provide what is lacking of the afflictions of Christ.