Isaiah 1:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Israel, you are a sinful nation loaded down with guilt. You are wicked and corrupt and have turned from the LORD, the holy God of Israel.

Cross References

Genesis 13:13

where the people were evil and sinned terribly against the LORD.

2 Kings 21:22

refused to be faithful to the LORD, the God his ancestors had worshipped.

2 Chronicles 12:1

Soon after Rehoboam had control of his kingdom, he and everyone in Judah stopped obeying the LORD.

2 Chronicles 27:2

Jotham obeyed the LORD and did right. He followed the example of his father Uzziah, except he never burnt incense in the temple as his father had done. But the people of Judah kept sinning against the LORD.

Nehemiah 1:7

by choosing to disobey you and the laws and teachings you gave to your servant Moses.

Psalm 58:3

You have done wrong and lied from the day you were born.

Psalm 71:22

I will praise you, God, the Holy One of Israel. You are faithful. I will play the harp and sing your praises.

Psalm 78:40

While they were in the desert, they often rebelled and made God sad.

Psalm 78:41

They kept testing him and caused terrible pain for the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 78:57

They were as unfaithful as their ancestors, and they were as crooked as a twisted arrow.

Psalm 78:8

They would be different from their ancestors, who were stubborn, rebellious, and unfaithful to God.

Psalm 89:18

Our LORD and our King, the Holy One of Israel, you are truly our shield.

Exodus 32:7

The LORD said to Moses: Hurry back down! Those people you led out of Egypt are acting like fools.

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.

Isaiah 1:28

But those rebellious sinners who turn against me, the LORD, will all disappear.

Isaiah 10:6

to beat down you godless people. I am angry with you, and I will send him to attack you. He will take what he wants and walk on you like mud in the streets.

Isaiah 12:6

Sing, people of Zion! Celebrate the greatness of the holy LORD of Israel. God is here to help you.

Isaiah 14:20

You won't be buried with kings; you ruined your country and murdered your people. You evil monster! We hope that your family will be forgotten for ever.

Isaiah 29:19

The poor and the needy will celebrate and shout because of the LORD, the holy God of Israel.

Isaiah 3:8

Jerusalem and Judah, you rebelled against your glorious LORD— your words and your actions, made you stumble and fall.

Isaiah 30:1

This is the LORD's message for his rebellious people: “You follow your own plans instead of mine; you make treaties without asking me, and you keep on sinning.

Isaiah 30:15

The holy LORD God of Israel had told all of you, “I will keep you safe if you turn back to me and calm down. I will make you strong if you quietly trust me.” Then you stubbornly

Isaiah 30:9

They have turned against the LORD and can't be trusted. They have refused his teaching

Isaiah 31:2

The LORD isn't stupid! He does what he promises, and he can bring doom. If you are cruel yourself, or help those who are evil, you will be destroyed.

Isaiah 37:23

Sennacherib, you cursed, shouted, and sneered at me, the holy God of Israel.

Isaiah 41:14

People of Israel, don't worry, though others may say, “Israel is only a worm!” I am the holy God of Israel, who saves and protects you.

Isaiah 41:16

A strong wind will scatter them in all directions. Then you will celebrate and praise me, your LORD, the holy God of Israel.

Isaiah 41:20

Everyone will see this and know that I, the holy LORD God of Israel, created it all.

Isaiah 5:19

And you say, “Let the holy God of Israel hurry up and do what he has promised, so we can see it for ourselves.”

Isaiah 5:24

You will go up in flames like straw and hay! You have rejected the teaching of the holy LORD God All-Powerful of Israel. Now your roots will rot, and your blossoms will turn to dust.

Isaiah 57:17

Your greed made me furious. That's why I punished you and refused to be found, while you kept returning to your old sinful ways.

Isaiah 58:2

Day after day, you worship him and seem eager to learn his teachings. You act like a nation that wants to do right by obeying his laws. You ask him about justice, and say you enjoy worshipping the LORD.

Isaiah 65:11

What will I, the LORD, do if any of you reject me and my holy mountain? What will happen to you for offering food and wine to the gods you call “Good Luck” and “Fate”?

Isaiah 65:3

They keep making me angry by sneering at me, while offering sacrifices to idols in gardens and burning incense to them on bricks.

Isaiah 9:17

The Lord was angry with his people and kept punishing them, because they had turned against him. They were evil and spoke foolishly. That's why he did not have pity on their young people or on their widows and orphans.

Jeremiah 15:6

My people, you abandoned me and walked away. I am tired of showing mercy; that's why I'll destroy you

Jeremiah 2:13

You, my people, have sinned in two ways— you have rejected me, the source of life-giving water, and you've tried to collect water in cracked and leaking pits dug in the ground.

Jeremiah 2:17

It's all your own fault! You stopped following me, the LORD your God,

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own sins will punish you, because it was a bitter mistake for you to reject me without fear of punishment. I, the LORD All-Powerful, have spoken.

Jeremiah 2:31

Now listen to what I say! Did I abandon you in the desert or surround you with darkness? You are my people, yet you have told me, “We'll do what we want, and we refuse to worship you!”

Jeremiah 2:33

You are so clever at finding lovers that you could give lessons to a prostitute.

Jeremiah 2:5

and I, the LORD, will speak. I was never unfair to your ancestors, but they left me and became worthless by following worthless idols.

Jeremiah 50:29

Attack Babylon, enemy archers; set up camp around the city, and don't let anyone escape. It challenged me, the holy God, so do to it what it did to other cities.

Jeremiah 51:5

Everyone in Israel and Judah is guilty. But I, the LORD All-Powerful, their holy God, have not abandoned them.

Jeremiah 7:19

But they are not only insulting me; they are also insulting themselves by doing these shameful things.

Jeremiah 7:26

But you have ignored me and become even more stubborn and sinful than your ancestors ever were!

Ezekiel 14:5

When they hear my message, perhaps they will see that they need to turn back to me and stop worshipping those idols.

Ezekiel 16:33

Prostitutes accept money for having sex, but you bribe men from everywhere to have sex with you.

Ezekiel 16:45

You are just like your mother, who hated her husband and her own children. You are also like your sisters, who hated their husbands and children. Your father was an Amorite, and your mother was a Hittite.

Daniel 9:11

Everyone in Israel has stubbornly refused to obey your laws, and so those curses written by your servant Moses have fallen upon us.

Zephaniah 1:6

Nothing will remain of anyone who has turned away and rejected me.

Numbers 32:14

Now you people of Reuben and Gad are doing the same thing and making the LORD even angrier.

Matthew 11:28

If you are tired from carrying heavy burdens, come to me and I will give you rest.

Matthew 23:33

You are nothing but snakes and the children of snakes! How can you escape going to hell?

Matthew 3:7

Many Pharisees and Sadducees also came to be baptized. But John said to them: You snakes! Who warned you to run from the coming judgment?

Romans 8:7

Our desires fight against God, because they do not and cannot obey God's laws.

1 Corinthians 10:22

We would make the Lord jealous if we did that. And we are not stronger than the Lord.

Deuteronomy 29:25

And they will be given this answer: Our ancestors worshipped the LORD, but after he brought them out of Egypt and made an agreement with them, they rejected the agreement

Deuteronomy 31:16

The LORD said: Moses, you will soon die. But Israel is going into a land where other gods are worshipped, and Israel will reject me and start worshipping these gods. The people will break the agreement I made with them,

Deuteronomy 32:19

You were the LORD's children, but you made him angry. Then he rejected you

Deuteronomy 32:5

But you lie and cheat and are unfaithful to him. You have disgraced yourselves and are no longer worthy to be his children.

Colossians 1:24

I am glad that I can suffer for you. I am pleased also that in my own body I can continue the suffering of Christ for his body, the church.

Revelation 18:5

Her sins are piled as high as heaven. God has remembered the evil she has done.

Judges 10:10

They begged the LORD for help and confessed, “We were unfaithful to you, our LORD. We stopped worshipping you and started worshipping idols of Baal.”