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 gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come to 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 take 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 the LORD:

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

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

Ye stiff-necked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.

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

A seed

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

And behold, ye have risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD towards Israel.

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Yet they hearkened not to me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

Then shalt thou say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, 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 when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said to them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Children

Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

They give gifts to all lewd women: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come to thee on every side for thy lewdness.

Provoked

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;

And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred 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!

Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

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

The holy

That say, Let him make speed, and hasten 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 aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Withdraw from the way, turn aside from 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 thy voice, and lifted thy eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

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

For the LORD is our defense; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.

Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, encamp against it on every side; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do to her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah by his God, by the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

Gone away backward

The wicked are estranged from their birth: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity 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 be.

Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church: