Isaiah 1:20
But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
19If ye be 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 enemy.
Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: when He hath said, will He not do it? or when He hath spoken, will He not make it good?
1 Samuel 15:29And also the Glory of Israel will not lie nor repent; for He is not a man, that He should repent.'
Job 36:12But if they hearken not, 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 shalt thou delight thyself in the 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 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 →