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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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In The King James Version

But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

In Context

19If you really want this, and if you do as you're told, then you yourselves will eat the best things that the land produces.

21The city that used to be faithful has turned into a prostitute! Once she operated on principles of justice and followed what was right, but now only murderers live there.

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Cross References

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 →

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