Isaiah 48:1
Hear ye this—O house of Jacob, Ye who call yourselves by the name of Israel, Yea from the waters of Judah, came they forth,—Who swear by the name of Yahweh, And, by the God of Israel, call to remembrance—Not in truth, nor in righteousness;
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Genesis 35:10And God said to him, Thy name, is Jacob,—Thy name shall no longer be called Jacob But, Israel, shall be thy name. So he called his name, Israel.
Leviticus 19:12Nor swear by my name falsely,—And so profane the name of thy God: I, am Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 5:28And Yahweh heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me,—and Yahweh said unto me—I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken unto thee, they have well said all which they have spoken.
Deuteronomy 10:20Yahweh thy God, shalt thou revere, Him, shalt thou serve,—And unto him, shalt thou cleave, And in his name, shalt thou swear.
2 Kings 5:20Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said—Lo! my lord, hath restrained, this Naaman the Syrian, by not taking at his hand that which he brought! By the life of Yahweh, verily, I will runs after him, and accept of him, something.
Psalms 50:16But, to the lawless one, God saith, What hast, thou, to do, to recount my statutes? Or that thou hast taken up my covenant upon thy mouth?
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 48:1
God, having in the foregoing chapter reckoned with the Babylonians, and shown them their sins and the desolation that was coming upon them for their sins, to show that he hates sin wherever he finds it and will not connive at it in his own people, comes, in this chapter, to show the house of Jacob their sins, but, withal, the mercy God had in store for them notwithstanding; and he therefore sets their sins in order before them, that by their repentance and reformation they might be prepared for that mercy. I. He… Read the whole commentary →