Isaiah 1:20
but if ye be not willing, nor hearken to me, a sword shall devour you: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
19And if ye be willing, and hearken to me, ye shall eat the good of the land:
Cross References
Leviticus 26:25And I will bring upon you a sword avenging the cause of my covenant, and ye shall flee for refuge to your cities; and I will send out death against you, and ye shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies.
Numbers 23:19God is not as man to waver, 1 Nor as the son of man to be threatened; 1 Shall he say and not perform? 1 Shall he speak and not keep to his word? 1
1 Samuel 15:29And Israel shall be divided to two: and God will not turn nor repent, for he is not as a man to repent.
Job 36:12But he preserves not the ungodly; because they are not willing to know the Lord, 1 And because when reproved they were disobedient. 1
Isaiah 3:25And thy most beautiful son whom thou lovest shall fall by the sword; and your mighty men shall fall by the sword, and shall be brought low.
Isaiah 58:14then shalt thou trust on the Lord; and he shall bring thee up to the good places of the land, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.
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 →