Isaiah 1:28
But destruction shall come over transgressors and sinners together, and those that forsake the Lord shall perish.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
27Zion shall be redeemed through justice, and her converts through righteousness.
Cross References
1 Samuel 12:25But if ye will in any wise do wickedly, both ye yourselves as also your king shall perish.
1 Chronicles 28:9And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with an entire heart and with a willing soul; for all hearts doth the Lord search, and every imagination of the thoughts doth he understand; if thou seek him, he will let himself be found by thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
2 Chronicles 28:6And Pekach the son of Remalyahu slew in Judah one hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all being valiant men; because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers.
Job 31:3Is not calamity [ready] for the unjust? and misfortune for the wrong-doers?
Job 34:27Because they have departed from following him, and have not considered all his ways.
Psalms 5:6(5:7) Thou wilt destroy those that speak lies: the man of blood and deceit the Lord abhorreth.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 1:22-31
The Degeneracy of Jerusalem; Reformation of the Church. ( b. c. 738.) 21 How is the faithful city become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. 22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: 23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. 24 Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I… Read the whole commentary →