Isaiah 1:2

Sh'ma ·Hear obey·, heavens, 2 and listen, earth; for Adonai has spoken: 1 “I have nourished and brought up children, 2 and they have rebelled to break away from authority thus breaking relationship against me. 1

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

1The vision of Isaiah [Salvation of Yah] the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah [Praised] and Jerusalem [City of peace], in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah [Praised]. 1

3The ox knows his owner, 2 and the donkey his master’s crib; 2 but Israel [God prevails] does not know, 2 my people don’t consider.” 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:31and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that Adonai your God bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”

Deuteronomy 4:26I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan [Descender] to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 30:19I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants;

Isaiah 5:1Let me sing for my yadid ·beloved· a song of my dod ·beloved lover· about his vineyard. + 5:1. Quoted in Luke 20:9 2 My yadid ·beloved· had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill. 1

Isaiah 30:9For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not sh'ma ·hear obey· Adonai’s Torah ·Teaching·;

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 1:2

Isaiah to Malachi Those books of scripture are all prophetical of which here, in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling, we have endeavoured a methodical explication and a practical improvement. I call them prophetical because so they are for the main, though we have some histories (here and there brought in for the illustration of the prophecies) and a book of Lamentations. Our Saviour often puts the Law and the Prophets for all the Old Testament. The prophets, by waiving the ceremonial precepts, and not… Read the whole commentary →

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