Isaiah 1:2

Hear, O heaven, and listen, O earth: for the Lord has spoken, saying, I have begotten and reared up children, but they have + 1:2 Or, 'set me at nothing.' rebelled against me.

LXX2012 (US English)

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 which Esaias the son of Amos saw, which he saw against Juda, and against Jerusalem, in the reign of Ozias, and Joatham, and Achaz, and Ezekias, who reigned over Judea.

3The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel does not know me, and the people has not regarded me.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:31and in this wilderness which you⌃ saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite; + 1:31 See Acts 13. 18, and note in the margin of English Bible on ἐτροφόρησεν. how the Lord your God will bear you as a nursling, as if any man should nurse his child, through all the way which you⌃ have gone until you⌃ came to this place.

Deuteronomy 4:26I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that you⌃ shall surely perish from off the land, into which you⌃ go across Jordan to inherit it there; you⌃ shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall be utterly cut off.

Deuteronomy 30:19I call both heaven and earth to witness this day against you, I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: choose you life, that you and your seed may live;

2 Kings 21:22And he forsook the Lord God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the Lord.

Isaiah 5:1Now I will sing to my beloved a song of my beloved concerning my vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a + 5:1 Gr. horn, so Heb. high hill in a fertile place.

Isaiah 30:9For the people is disobedient, false children, who would not hear the law of God:

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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