Isaiah 1:2

Hear O heavens, And give ear, O earth, for Yahweh, hath spoken:—Sons, have I brought up, and advanced, And, they, have rebelled against me.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw, concerning Judah and Jerusalem,—in the days of Uzziah Jotham Ahaz Hezekiah—kings of Judah.

3An ox knoweth, his owner, And an ass his masters crib,—Israel, doth not know, My people doth not consider.

Read all of Isaiah 1

Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:31also in the desert which thou hast seen, where Yahweh thy God carried thee as a man will carry his son, throughout all the way that ye journeyed, until ye entered as far as, this place.

Deuteronomy 4:26I take both the heavens and the earth to witness against you to-day, that ye shall, perish, speedily, from off the land which ye are passing over the Jordan to possess,—ye shall not prolong your days thereupon; for, ye shall surely be laid waste;

Deuteronomy 30:19I call to witness against you to-day, the heavens and the earth, that life and death, have I set before thee, the blessing and the curse,—therefore shouldest thou choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed;

2 Kings 21:22and forsook Yahweh the God of his fathers,—and walked not in the way of Yahweh.

Isaiah 5:1Let me sing, I pray you, for a well-beloved of mine, The song of my beloved concerning his vineyard:—A vineyard, had my well-beloved on a very fruitful hill;

Isaiah 30:9That it is, a rebellious people, Sons apt at deceiving,—Sons unwilling to hear the law of Yahweh:

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Isaiah 1:2