Isaiah 1:20
But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
19if you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:25And I will bring in upon you the sword that shall avenge my covenant. And when you shall flee into the cities, I will send the pestilence in the midst of you, and you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies,
Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie, nor as the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil?
1 Samuel 15:29But the triumpher in Israel will riot spare, and will not be moved to repentance: for he is not a mail that he should repent.
Job 36:12But if they hear not, they shall pass by the sword, and shall be consumed in folly.
Isaiah 3:25Thy fairest men also shall fall by the sword, and thy valiant ones in battle.
Isaiah 58:14Then shalt thou be delighted in the Lord, and I will lift thee up above the high places of the earth, and will feed thee with the inheritance of Jacob thy father. For the mouth of the Lord hath 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 →