Isaiah 1:20
But if you are defiant, and if you are rebellious, you'll be killed by the sword. This is what the Lord has declared!
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Leviticus 26:25I will send enemies with swords to attack you in retaliation for breaking the agreement. Even though you retreat into your towns for defense, I will plague you with disease, and you will be handed over to your enemies.
Numbers 23:19God isn't a human being who would lie. He's not a mere mortal who changes his mind. Does he say he's going to do something but doesn't? Does he make promises he doesn't carry out?
1 Samuel 15:29In addition, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change his mind, for he is not a human being who changes his mind!”
Job 36:12But if they do not listen they will die a violent death, ignorant of God.
Isaiah 3:25Your men will be killed by the sword; your soldiers will die in battle.
Isaiah 58:14then you'll find the Lord is the one who truly makes you happy, and I will give you high positions on the earth and give you what I promised to Jacob, your forefather. I, the Lord, have spoken.
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 →