Isaiah 1:29
“For you will be ashamed of the sacred oak trees that you desired, 1 and you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
28Rebels and sinners will be crushed together, and those who abandon Yahweh will be done away with. 1
30For you will be like an oak whose leaf fades, 1 and like a garden that has no water. 1
Cross References
Isaiah 31:7For in that day each one will get rid of his idols of silver 1 and his idols of gold that your own hands have sinfully made. 1
Isaiah 57:5You heat yourselves up sleeping together under the oaks, under every green tree, 1 you who kill your children in the dry riverbeds, under the rocky overhangs. 1
Isaiah 66:17They consecrate themselves and make themselves pure, so they may enter the gardens, following the one in the middle of those who 1 eat the flesh of pig and abominable things like mice. + 66:17 This verse is very difficult, and modern versions provide various interpretations. 1 “They will come to an end—this is Yahweh's declaration.
Jeremiah 3:6Then Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Do you see what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up every high hill and under every leafy tree, and there she has acted like a prostitute.
Ezekiel 16:63Because of these things, you will call everything to mind and be ashamed, so you will no longer open your mouth to speak because of your shame, when I have forgiven you for all that you have done—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.'”
Hosea 4:13They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains 1 and burn incense on the hills, 1 under oaks, poplars and terebinths, 1 because the shade is good. 1 So your daughters commit sexual immorality, 1 and your daughters-in-law commit adultery. 1
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 1:22-31
The Degeneracy of Jerusalem; Reformation of the Church. ( b. c. 738.) 21 How is the faithful city become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. 22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: 23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. 24 Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I… Read the whole commentary →