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

Your rulers are rebels
And companions of thieves;
Everyone loves a bribe
And chases after rewards.
They do not defend the orphan,
Nor does the widow’s plea come before them.

I send it against a godless nation
And commission it against the people of My fury
To capture booty and to seize plunder,
And to trample them down like mud in the streets.

For this is a rebellious people, false sons,
Sons who refuse to listen
To the instruction of the Lord;

Now the men of Sodom were wicked exceedingly and sinners against the Lord.

“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.

“You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did.

for her sins have

piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

A seed

“But come here, you sons of a sorceress,

Offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute.

Now behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to add still more to the burning anger of the Lord against Israel.

And not be like their fathers,
A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that did not prepare its heart
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck; they did more evil than their fathers.

Then you are to say to them, ‘It is because your forefathers have forsaken Me,’ declares the Lord, ‘and have followed other gods and served them and bowed down to them; but Me they have forsaken and have not kept My law.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of

hell?

Children

“How well you prepare your way
To seek love!
Therefore even the wicked women
You have taught your ways.

Men give gifts to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers to bribe them to come to you from every direction for your harlotries.

Provoked

For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen,
Because their

speech and their actions are against the Lord,

To rebel against His glorious presence.

A people who continually provoke Me to My face,
Offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on bricks;

“The Lord saw this, and spurned them

Because of the provocation of His sons and daughters.

How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness
And grieved Him in the desert!

Do they spite Me?” declares the Lord. “Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?”

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?

The holy

Who say, “Let Him make speed, let Him hasten His work, that we may see it;

And let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near
And come to pass, that we may know it!”

Cry aloud and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,

For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

The afflicted also will increase their gladness in the Lord,
And the needy of mankind will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

“Get out of the way, turn aside from the path,

Let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”

“Whom have you reproached and blasphemed?
And against whom have you raised your voice
And haughtily lifted up your eyes?
Against the Holy One of Israel!

“Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel;
I will help you,” declares the Lord, “and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

For our shield belongs to the Lord,

And our king to the Holy One of Israel.

“Summon many against Babylon,
All those who bend the bow:
Encamp against her on every side,
Let there be no escape.
Repay her according to her work;

According to all that she has done, so do to her;

For she has become arrogant against the Lord,
Against the Holy One of Israel.

For neither Israel nor Judah has been forsaken
By his God, the Lord of hosts,
Although their land is full of guilt

Before the Holy One of Israel.

Gone away backward

The wicked are estranged from the womb;
These who speak lies go astray from birth.

Thus says the Lord,
“What injustice did your fathers find in Me,
That they went far from Me
And walked after emptiness and became empty?

because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so,

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions.