Isaiah 1:20
But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword, for the mouth of LORD has spoken it.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
19If ye are willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:25And I will bring a sword upon you that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant, and ye shall be gathered together within your cities. And I will send the pestilence among you, and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enem
Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie, neither the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
1 Samuel 15:29And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent, for he is not a man that he should repent.
Job 36:12But if they do not hearken, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
Isaiah 3:25Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
Isaiah 58:14then thou shall delight thyself in LORD, and I will make thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and I will feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father. For the mouth of LORD has spoken it.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 1:17-21
A Call to Repentance; Repentance and Reformation Urged. ( b. c. 738.) 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the… Read the whole commentary →