Isaiah 47:6

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Summary

I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

Wroth

I have polluted

Thou didst

James 2:13

Upon

Deuteronomy 28:50

General references

Bible References

Wroth

I will send him against a godless 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.

Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.

And David said unto Gad, I am in a great distress: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.

But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before the army that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage that reaches up unto heaven.

For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk of the grief of those whom you have wounded.

And I am very much displeased with the nations that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they furthered the disaster.

I have polluted

Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: he has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought them down to the ground: he has polluted the kingdom and its princes.

Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.

By the multitude of your trade they have filled the midst of you with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I will cast you as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

Thou didst

Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be plundered, and their wives ravished.

That made the world like a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

For your violence against your brother Jacob shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.

For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you measure, it shall be measured to you again.

For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; and mercy triumphs over judgment.

Upon

A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young:

General references

Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.

Therefore all they that devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and they that plunder you shall be plunder, and all that prey upon you will I make a prey.

And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says the LORD.

Princes were hung up by their hands: the faces of elders were not honored.