Isaiah 1:20
but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword; for the LORD’s mouth has spoken it.”
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In Context
19If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;
Cross References
Leviticus 26:25I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence amongst you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and he won’t do it? Or has he spoken, and he won’t make it good?
1 Samuel 15:29Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”
Job 36:12But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.
Isaiah 3:25Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war.
Isaiah 58:14then you will delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;” for the LORD’s mouth has spoken it.
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 →