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 profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.

David said to Gad, "I am in distress. Let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great. 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 to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, "Behold, because the LORD, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.

For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but only a little angry, but they added to the calamity."

I have polluted

Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling."

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 humiliated the kingdom and its rulers.

'Speak to the house of Israel, "Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, 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 abundance of your traffic they filled the midst of you with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

Thou didst

Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.

who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who did not release his prisoners to their home?"

For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Upon

a nation of fierce facial expressions, that shall not respect the person of the old, nor show favor to the young,

General references

Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.

Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and those who plunder you shall be plundered, and all who prey on you I will make a prey.

I will render to 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 by their hands; elders were shown no respect.