Isaiah 1:4

Terrible things will happen to that sinful nation, to those people who are guilty of sinning greatly. They are a group of very evil people, who act very unjustly. They have abandoned Yahweh, the holy one of Israel; they have ◄abandoned/turned away from► him.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

In Context

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.”

5Why do you [RHQ] continue to do things for which you should be punished? Why do you continue to rebel against Yahweh? You are like [MET] someone whose head is badly injured and whose mind is sick/corrupt.

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Cross References

Exodus 32:7Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Go back down from the mountain, because your people, the ones that you brought up here from Egypt, have already ◄become very depraved/wicked►!

Deuteronomy 29:25“Then other people will reply, ‘It is because they refused to keep the agreement that Yahweh, the God whom their ancestors worshiped, had made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 32:5“But you Israeli people have been very unfaithful to him; because of your sins, you no longer deserve to be his children. You are extremely wicked and deceitful [DOU].

Judges 10:10So the Israelis cried out to Yahweh, saying “We have sinned against you. We have abandoned you, and we have been worshiping the idols of their god Baal.”

2 Chronicles 12:1After Rehoboam was in complete control of his kingdom, he and all the other people in Judah stopped obeying the laws of Yahweh.

Psalms 58:3Wicked people do wrong things and tell lies from the time that they are born [DOU].

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 1:3-10

The Degeneracy of Israel; The Sinfulness of Israel; The Sufferings of Israel. ( b. c. 738.) 2 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. 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord , they have provoked the Holy One of… Read the whole commentary →

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