Isaiah 5:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Isaiah 5:18

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

Draw

Bible References

Draw

Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and we have made a vision with hell; when the overwhelming rod shall pass through, it shall not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood,

And the man Micah had a house of gods, and made an ephod and household gods, and anointed one of his sons, who became his priest.

And Absalom said to Ahithophel, Give your advice. What shall we do?

He has said in his heart, God has forgotten; He hides His face; He will not see forever!

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God! They acted corruptly; they have done abominable works, there is none who does good.

For he flatters himself in his own eyes in order to find his iniquity, to hate it.

They crush Your people, O Jehovah, and afflict Your inheritance.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so, and what will you do at the end of it?

Why has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a never-ending backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.

For the land is full of adulterers. Yes, because of cursing the land mourns; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their power is not right.

Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah. Jehovah has not sent you, but you make this people to trust in a lie.

And all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great multitude, even all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah. And they said,

Because, even because they made My people go astray, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and he builds a wall, and lo, others daubed it with lime.

And it shall be in that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and punish the men who are settled on their lees; who say in their heart, Jehovah will not do good, nor will He do evil.

They shall put you out of the synagogue. But an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think that he bears God service.

I truly thought within myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth,