Isaiah 1:20
but if you⌃ be not willing, nor listen to me, a sword shall devour you: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
19And if you⌃ be willing, and listen to me, you⌃ shall eat the good of the land:
Cross References
Leviticus 26:25And I will bring upon you a sword avenging the cause of my covenant, and you⌃ shall flee for refuge to your cities; and I will send out death against you, and you⌃ shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies.
Numbers 23:19God is not as man to waver, nor as the son of man to be threatened; shall he say and not perform? shall he speak and not keep to his word?
1 Samuel 15:29And + 15:29 Wide variation from the Heb. Israel shall be divided to two: and God will not turn nor repent, for he is not as a man to repent.
Job 36:12But he preserves not the ungodly; because they are not willing to know the Lord, and because when reproved they were disobedient.
Isaiah 58:14then shall you trust on the Lord; and he shall bring you up to the good places of the land, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.
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 →