Isaiah 1:4
What a sinful nation—a people carrying such a load of guilt, an evil generation, corrupt children! They have abandoned the Lord. They have despised Israel's Holy One. They have become strangers. They have gone backwards.
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Exodus 32:7Then the Lord told Moses, “Get back down, because your people that you brought out of Egypt are acting immorally.
Deuteronomy 29:25The people will answer, “It's because they abandoned the agreement of the Lord, the God of their forefathers, which he made with them when he led them out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 32:5His children have acted immorally towards him; so they are no longer his children because of their sinful stains. They are a perverse and corrupt people.
Judges 10:10The Israelites cried out to the Lord for help, saying, “We have sinned against you, rejecting our God and worshiping the Baals.”
2 Chronicles 12:1Once Rehoboam was secure on the throne and was sure of his power, he together with all the Israelites abandoned the law of the Lord.
Psalms 58:3The wicked are sinners from birth; from the moment they're born they tell lies.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 1:3-10
The Degeneracy of Israel; The Sinfulness of Israel; The Sufferings of Israel. ( b. c. 738.) 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. 4 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… Read the whole commentary →