Isaiah 1:2

This is what Yahweh says: “All you angels in [APO] heaven and all you people on [APO] earth, listen to me! The people that I caused to exist and took care of [DOU] have rebelled against me.

Translation for Translators

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

1I am Isaiah, the son of Amoz. Yahweh showed me visions about Jerusalem and all the other places in Judah. He showed me these visions during the years that Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were kings of Judah.

3Oxen know their owners, and donkeys know who provides food for them, but my Israeli people do not know me; they do not realize that I am the one who takes care of them.”

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:31and in the desert. You saw how he brought you safely here, like a man would carry his son. [SIM]’

Deuteronomy 4:26Today I am requesting everyone who is in heaven and everyone who is on the earth [MTY] to watch what you are doing. If you disobey what I am telling you, you will soon all die in the land that you will be crossing the Jordan River to occupy. You will not live very long there; Yahweh will completely get rid of many [HYP] of you.

Deuteronomy 30:19I am requesting that everyone in heaven and the earth testify to you, that today I am allowing you to choose whether you want to live for a long time or to soon die, whether you want Yahweh to bless you or to curse you. So choose to live.

2 Kings 21:22He abandoned Yahweh, the God whom his ancestors had worshiped, and did not behave as Yahweh wanted him to.

Isaiah 5:1Now I will sing a song about my dear friend, and about his vineyard. The vineyard was on a very fertile hillside.

Isaiah 30:9It would remind them that they are deceitful and always rebelling against Yahweh; they refuse to pay attention to what he tells/teaches them.

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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