Isaiah 58:1
“Cry loudly; do not hold back. Lift up your voice like a trumpet. 1 Confront my people with their rebellion, and the house of Jacob with their sins. 1
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Psalms 40:9I have proclaimed good news of your righteousness in the great assembly; 1 Yahweh, you know that my lips have not kept back from doing this. 1
Isaiah 40:6A voice says, “Cry.” Another answers, “What should I cry?” 1 “All flesh is grass, and all their covenant faithfulness is like the flower of the field. 1
Isaiah 56:10All their watchmen are blind, they do not understand. 1 They are all silent dogs who cannot bark. 1 They dream, and lying down they love to sleep. 1
Jeremiah 1:17Get yourself ready! Stand up and say to them whatever I command you. Do not be shattered before them, or I will shatter you before them!
Jeremiah 15:19Therefore Yahweh said this, “If you repent, Jeremiah, then I will restore you, and you will stand before me and serve me. 1 For if you separate the foolish things from the precious things, you will be like my mouth. The people will come back to you, 1 but you yourself must not go back to them. 1
Ezekiel 2:3He said to me, “Son of man, I am sending you to the people of Israel, to rebellious nations that have rebelled against me—both they and their ancestors have sinned against me up to this very day!
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 58:1
The prophet, in this chapter, has his commission and charge renewed to reprove the sinners in Zion, particularly the hypocrites, to show them their transgressions, ver. 1 . It is intended for admonition and warning to all hypocrites, and is not to be confined to those of any one age. Some refer it primarily to those at that time when Isaiah prophesied; see chap. xxxiii. 14 ; xxix. 13 . Others to the captives in Babylon, the wicked among them, to whom the prophet had declared there was no peace ch. lvii. 21 .… Read the whole commentary →