Isaiah 1:20

But, if you turn away from me and rebel against me, you will be killed by your enemies’ swords. That will surely happen, because I, Yahweh, have said it.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

In Context

19If you are willing to obey me, I will enable you to have plenty to eat.

21“ You people of Jerusalem previously faithfully worshiped only me, but now you have become like [MET] prostitutes who are not faithful to any husband. Previously, people there always acted justly/fairly and righteously, but now your city is full of murderers.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:25I will send foreign armies [MTY] to punish you for not doing the things that I commanded you to do in the agreement that I made with you. If you try to escape from your enemies by shutting yourselves in your cities that have walls around them, I will cause you to experience plagues, and I will allow your enemies to capture [IDM] you.

Numbers 23:19God is not a human being. Humans lie, but God never lies. He never changes his mind/thoughts, as humans do. Whatever he has said that he will do, he does.

1 Samuel 15:29And since the one who is the glorious God of the Israeli people does not lie, he will not change ◄his mind/what he has said►. Humans sometimes change their minds, but God does not do that, because he is not a human.”

Job 36:12But if they do not ◄listen/pay attention► to him, they will die violently, not knowing why God is causing them to die.

Isaiah 3:25Their husbands will be killed by their enemies’ swords, and their soldiers will also die in battles.

Isaiah 58:14I will enable you to be joyful. I will greatly honor you; I will honor you everywhere! I will give to you the blessings that I gave to your ancestor Jacob. Those things will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said 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 →

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