Parallel Verses
Amplified
Hear the word of the Lord [rulers of Jerusalem],
You rulers of [another] Sodom,
Listen to the law and instruction of our God,
You people of [another] Gomorrah.
New American Standard Bible
You rulers of
Give ear to the instruction of our God,
You people of Gomorrah.
King James Version
Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Holman Bible
you rulers of Sodom!
Listen to the instruction of our God,
you people of Gomorrah!
International Standard Version
"Listen to what the LORD says, you rulers of Sodom, and pay attention to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
A Conservative Version
Hear the word of LORD, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
American Standard Version
Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Bible in Basic English
Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
Darby Translation
Hear the word of Jehovah, rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, people of Gomorrah!
Julia Smith Translation
Hear the word of Jehovah, ye leaders of Sodom: give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
King James 2000
Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Hear the word of Yahweh, rulers of Sodom! Listen [to] the teaching of our God, people of Gomorrah!
Modern King James verseion
Hear the Word of Jehovah, rulers of Sodom; give ear to the Law of our God, people of Gomorrah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Hear the word of the LORD, ye tyrants of Sodom, and hearken unto the law of our God, thou people of Gomorrah.
NET Bible
Listen to the Lord's word, you leaders of Sodom! Pay attention to our God's rebuke, people of Gomorrah!
New Heart English Bible
Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom. Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
The Emphasized Bible
Hear the word of Yahweh, ye rulers of Sodom, - Give ear to the instruction of our God, ye people of Gomorrah: -
Webster
Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
World English Bible
Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
Youngs Literal Translation
Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom, Give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah,
Themes
the Burnt offering » Of the wicked, not accepted by God
Delight » What the lord does not delight in
ears » Should » Be given to the law of God
Hearing » Who the lord will not hear
Hiding » Who the lord hides himself from
Ordinance » Insufficiency of, for salvation
Prayer » Whose prayer the lord does not hear
Requirements » What the lord does not require
Sacrifice » The lord not desiring sacrifices
national Sins » National worship rejected on account of
national Sins » Defile » National worship
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 1:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Corrupt Religion
9
If the Lord of hosts
Had not left us a few survivors,
We would be like Sodom,
We would be like Gomorrah.
Hear the word of the Lord [rulers of Jerusalem],
You rulers of [another] Sodom,
Listen to the law and instruction of our God,
You people of [another] Gomorrah.
“What are your multiplied sacrifices to Me [without your repentance]?”
Says the Lord.
“I have had enough of [your] burnt offerings of rams
And the fat of well-fed cattle [without your obedience];
And I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls or lambs or goats [offered without repentance].
Phrases
Cross References
Revelation 11:8
And their dead bodies will lie exposed in the open street of the great city (Jerusalem), which in a spiritual sense is called [by the symbolic and allegorical names of] Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.
Deuteronomy 32:32
“For their vine is from the vine of Sodom,
And from the fields of Gomorrah;
Their grapes are grapes of poison,
Their clusters, bitter.
Isaiah 3:9
Their partiality testifies against them,
They display their sin like Sodom;
They do not even hide it.
Woe (judgment is coming) to
For they have brought evil on themselves [as a reward].
Ezekiel 16:46
Now your older sister is Samaria, she with her daughters (outlying cities) who live north of you; and your younger sister is Sodom, she with her daughters who live south of you.
Ezekiel 16:49
Behold, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters (outlying cities) had arrogance, abundant food, and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.
Genesis 13:13
But the men of Sodom were extremely wicked and sinful against the Lord [unashamed in their open sin before Him].
1 Kings 22:19-23
Micaiah said, “Therefore, hear the word of the Lord. I saw the Lord sitting on His throne, and all the host (army) of heaven standing by Him on His right hand and on His left.
Isaiah 8:20
[Direct those people] to the law and to the testimony! If their teachings are not in accord with this word, it is because they have no dawn.
Isaiah 28:14
Therefore, hear the word of the Lord, you arrogant men
Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem!
Jeremiah 9:26
Jeremiah 23:14
“Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem:
They commit adultery and walk in lies;
They encourage and strengthen the hands of evildoers,
So that no one has turned back from his wickedness.
All of them have become like Sodom to Me,
And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.
Amos 3:1
Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt:
Amos 3:8
The lion has roared! Who will not fear?
The Lord God has spoken [to the prophets]! Who can but prophesy?
Amos 9:7
“Are you [degenerate ones] not as the [despised] sons of Ethiopia to Me,
O sons of Israel?” says the Lord.
“Have I not brought up Israel from the land of Egypt,
And the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans (Syrians) from Kir?
Micah 3:8-12
But in fact, I am filled with power,
With the Spirit of the Lord,
And with justice and might,
To declare to Jacob his transgression
And to Israel his sin.
Romans 9:29
It is as Isaiah foretold,
We would have become like Sodom, and would have resembled Gomorrah [totally rejected and destroyed]!”