Isaiah 1:5

Contemporary English Version 1995

Why be punished more? Why not give up your sin? Your head is badly bruised, and you are weak all over.

Cross References

Ezekiel 24:13

Jerusalem is so full of sin and evil that I can't get it clean, even though I have tried. It will stay filthy until I let loose my fierce anger against it.

Jeremiah 5:3

I answered, “I know that you look for truth. You punished your people for their lies, but in spite of the pain, they became more stubborn and refused to turn back to you.”

Isaiah 31:6

People of Israel, come back! You have completely turned from the Lord.

Jeremiah 5:31

Prophets give their messages in the name of a false god, my priests don't want to serve me, and you—my own people— like it this way! But on the day of disaster, where will you turn for help?

Jeremiah 9:3

The Lord replied: Lies come from the mouths of my people, like arrows from a bow. With each dishonest deed their power increases, and not one of them will admit that I am God.

Jeremiah 2:30

I tried punishing you, but you refused to come back to me, and like fierce lions you killed my prophets.

Nehemiah 9:34

Our kings and leaders, our priests and ancestors have never obeyed your commands or heeded your warnings.

Jeremiah 5:5

So I'll go and talk to the leaders. They know what God demands.” But even they had decided not to obey the Lord.

Isaiah 33:24

The Lord will forgive your sins, and none of you will say, “I feel sick.”

Isaiah 9:21

The tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh turned against each other, then joined forces to attack Judah. But the Lord was still angry and ready to punish the nation even more.

Isaiah 9:13

The people of Israel still did not turn back to the Lord All-Powerful and worship him.

Isaiah 1:23

Your leaders have rejected me to become friends of crooks; your rulers are looking for gifts and bribes. Widows and orphans never get a fair trial.

2 Chronicles 28:22

Even after all these terrible things happened to Ahaz, he sinned against the Lord even worse than before.

2 Kings 1:13

Ahaziah sent a third army officer and 50 more soldiers. This officer went up to Elijah, then he got down on his knees and begged, “Man of God, please be kind to me and these 50 servants of yours. Let us live!

Jeremiah 13:23

Can you ever change and do what's right? Can people change the color of their skin, or can a leopard remove its spots? If so, then maybe you can change and learn to do right.

Jeremiah 17:9

You people of Judah are so deceitful that you even fool yourselves, and you can't change.

Jeremiah 44:15

A large number of Jews from both northern and southern Egypt listened to me as I told them what the Lord had said. Most of the men in the crowd knew that their wives often burned incense to other gods. So they and their wives shouted:

Lamentations 5:17

We feel sick all over and can't even see straight;

Ezekiel 34:4

You have never protected the weak ones or healed the sick ones or bandaged those that get hurt. You let them wander off and never look for those that get lost. You are cruel and mean to my sheep.

Ezekiel 34:16

to look for those that are lost and bring back the ones that wander off, to bandage those that are hurt and protect the ones that are weak. I will also slaughter those that are fat and strong, because I always do right.