Isaiah 59:13

God's Word

We have rebelled and denied the Lord. We have turned away from our God. We have spoken about oppression and revolt. We have conceived and uttered lies in our hearts.

Cross References

Job 31:28

then that, too, would be a criminal offense, and I would have denied God above.

Psalm 18:21

because I have kept the ways of the Lord and I have not wickedly turned away from my God,

Psalm 78:36

They flattered him with their mouths and lied to him with their tongues.

Proverbs 30:9

or I may feel satisfied and deny you and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’ or I may become poor and steal and give the name of my God a bad reputation.

Isaiah 10:1

How horrible it will be for those who make unjust laws and who make oppressive regulations.

Isaiah 30:12

This is what the Holy One of Israel says: You have rejected this warning, trusted oppression and deceit, and leaned on them.

Isaiah 31:6

You people of Israel, return to the one whom you have so violently rebelled against.

Isaiah 32:6

Godless fools speak foolishness, and their minds plan evil in order to do ungodly things. They speak falsely about the Lord. They let people go hungry and withhold water from thirsty people.

Isaiah 48:8

You have never heard about them. You have never known about them. Your ears have never been open to hear them before. I know that you’ve acted very treacherously and that you have been called a rebel since you were born.

Isaiah 5:7

The vineyard of the Lord of Armies is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the garden of his delight. He hoped for justice but saw only slaughter, for righteousness but heard only cries of distress.

Isaiah 57:11

Whom did you dread and fear so much that you lied to me? You haven’t remembered me or cared about me. I’ve been silent for a long time. Is that why you don’t fear me?

Isaiah 58:13

If you stop trampling on the day of rest and doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the day of rest a delight and the Lord’s holy day honorable, if you honor it by not going your own way, by not going out when you want, and by not talking idly,

Isaiah 58:2

They look for me every day and want to know my ways. They act as if they were a nation that has done what is right and as if they haven’t disregarded God’s judgment ⌞on them⌟. They ask me for just decrees. They want God to be near them.

Isaiah 58:9

Then you will call, and the Lord will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, “Here I am!” Get rid of that yoke. Don’t point your finger and say wicked things.

Jeremiah 12:8

My people have turned on me like a lion in the forest. They roar at me, so I hate them.

Jeremiah 17:13

O Lord, the Hope of Israel, all who abandon you will be put to shame. Those who turn away from you will be written in dust, because they abandon the Lord, the fountain of life-giving water.

Jeremiah 2:13

“My people have done two things wrong. They have abandoned me, the fountain of life-giving water. They have also dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

Jeremiah 2:16

People from Noph and Tahpanhes have cracked your skulls, Israel.

Jeremiah 2:17

You have brought this on yourself by abandoning the Lord your God when he led you on his way.

Jeremiah 3:10

Even after all this, Israel’s treacherous sister Judah didn’t wholeheartedly come back to me. She was deceitful,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:20

But like a wife who betrays her husband, so you, nation of Israel, betrayed me,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 32:40

I will make an eternal promise  to them that I will never stop blessing them. I will make them fear me so that they will never turn away from me.

Jeremiah 42:20

You only deceived yourselves when you sent me to the Lord your God and said, ‘Pray to the Lord our God for us, and tell us everything that the Lord our God says, and we’ll do it.’

Jeremiah 5:23

But these people are stubborn and rebellious. They have turned aside and wandered away from me.

Ezekiel 18:25

“But you say, ‘The Lord’s way is unfair.’ Listen, nation of Israel, isn’t my way fair? Isn’t it your ways that are unfair?

Ezekiel 6:9

Then those who escape will remember me among the nations where they are taken captive. I was hurt by their adulterous hearts, which turned away from me, and by their eyes, which lusted after idols. They will hate themselves for the evil and disgusting things that they have done.

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, the Lord told him, “Marry a prostitute and have children with that prostitute. The people in this land have acted like prostitutes and abandoned the Lord.”

Hosea 11:12

“Ephraim surrounds me with lies. The nation of Israel surrounds me with deceit.” Judah rebels against God, against the Holy One who is faithful.

Hosea 6:7

“Like Adam, you rejected the promise. You were unfaithful to me.

Hosea 7:1

“Whenever I want to heal Israel, all I can see is Ephraim’s sin and Samaria’s wickedness. People cheat each other. They break into houses and steal. They rob people in the streets.

Hosea 7:13

“How horrible it will be for these people. They have run away from me. They must be destroyed because they’ve rebelled against me. I want to reclaim them, but they tell lies about me.

Amos 6:12

Do horses run on rocks? Does a farmer plow the sea with oxen? Yet, you have turned justice into something deadly and what is righteous into poison.

Matthew 10:33

But I will tell my Father in heaven that I don’t know the person who tells others that he doesn’t know me.

Titus 1:16

They claim to know God, but they deny him by what they do. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit to do anything good.

Hebrews 3:12

Be careful, brothers and sisters, that none of you ever develop a wicked, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

James 1:15

Then desire becomes pregnant and gives birth to sin. When sin grows up, it gives birth to death.

James 3:6

The tongue is that kind of flame. It is a world of evil among the parts of our bodies, and it completely contaminates our bodies. The tongue sets our lives on fire, and is itself set on fire from hell.

Joshua 24:27

Joshua told all the people, “This stone will stand as a witness for us. It has heard all the words which the Lord spoke to us. It will stand as a witness for you. You cannot deceive your God.”