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 apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.

Against a profane nation I send him, And concerning a people of My wrath I charge him, To spoil spoil, and to seize prey, And to make it a treading-place as the clay of out places.

That a rebellious people is this, sons -- liars, Sons not willing to hear the law of Jehovah.

and the men of Sodom are evil, and sinners before Jehovah exceedingly.

'Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also ye;

because her sins did follow -- unto the heaven, and God did remember her unrighteousness.

A seed

And ye, come near hither, O sons of a sorceress, seed of an adulterer, Even thou dost commit whoredom.

And lo, ye have risen in the stead of your fathers, an increase of men -- sinners, to add yet to the fury of the anger of Jehovah toward Israel;

And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God is its spirit.

And they have not hearkened unto Me, Nor inclined their ear, and harden their neck, They have done evil above their fathers.

Then thou hast said unto them: Because that your fathers have forsaken Me, An affirmation of Jehovah, And go after other gods, and serve them, And they bow themselves to them, And Me have forsaken, and My law not kept,

And having seen many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming about his baptism, he said to them, 'Brood of vipers! who did shew you to flee from the coming wrath?

'Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?

Children

What -- dost thou make pleasing thy ways to seek love? Therefore even the wicked thou hast taught thy ways.

To all whores they give a gift, And -- thou hast given thy gifts to all thy lovers, And dost bribe them to come in unto thee, From round about -- in thy whoredoms.

Provoked

For stumbled hath Jerusalem, and Judah hath fallen, For their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, To provoke the eyes of His glory.

The people who are provoking Me to anger, To My face continually, Sacrificing in gardens, and making perfume on the bricks:

And Jehovah seeth and despiseth -- For the provocation of His sons and His daughters.

How often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, Grieve Him in the desolate place?

Me are they provoking to anger? an affirmation of Jehovah, Is it not themselves, For the shame of their own faces?

do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?

The holy

Who are saying, 'Let Him hurry, Let Him hasten His work, that we may see, And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel Draw near and come, and we know.'

Cry aloud, and sing, O inhabitant of Zion, For great in thy midst is the Holy One of Israel!'

And the humble have added joy in Jehovah, And the poor among men In the Holy One of Israel rejoice.

Turn aside from the way, decline from the path, Cause to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.'

Whom hast thou reproached and reviled? And against whom lifted up the voice? Yea, thou dost lift up on high thine eyes Against the Holy One of Israel.

Fear not, O worm Jacob, ye men of Israel, I helped thee, an affirmation of Jehovah, Even thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

For of Jehovah is our shield, And of the Holy One of Israel our king.

Summon unto Babylon archers, all treading the bow, Encamp against her round about, Let her have no escape; Recompense to her according to her work, According to all that she did -- do to her, For unto Jehovah she hath been proud, Unto the Holy One of Israel.

For, not forsaken is Israel and Judah, By its God -- by Jehovah of Hosts, For their land hath been full of guilt, Against the Holy One of Israel.

Gone away backward

The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.

Thus said Jehovah: What -- have your fathers found in Me perversity, That they have gone far off from Me, And go after the vanity, and become vain,

because the mind of the flesh is enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,