Isaiah 1:4

Modern English Version

Alas, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they are estranged and backward.

Cross References

Genesis 13:13

Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against the Lord.

2 Kings 21:22

He abandoned the Lord God of his fathers, and he did not walk in the way of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 12:1

Now when the reign of Rehoboam was established and strong, he, and all of Israel with him, abandoned the law of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 27:2

And he did what was correct in the eyes of the Lord just as his father Uzziah had done. However, he did not enter the temple of the Lord. But the people continued acting corruptly.

Nehemiah 1:7

We have acted very corruptly against You and have not obeyed the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which You commanded Your servant Moses.

Psalm 58:3

The wicked are estranged from the womb; those who speak lies go astray from birth.

Psalm 71:22

Also with the harp will I praise You for Your faithfulness, O my God; to You will I sing praises with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 78:40

How often they provoked Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

Psalm 78:41

Again and again they tested God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 78:57

but turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers; they turned aside like a deceitful bow.

Psalm 78:8

and that they may not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set its heart aright, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Psalm 89:18

For our shield belongs to the Lord, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.

Exodus 32:7

The Lord spoke to Moses, “Go, and get down, for your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe and follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come before them.

Isaiah 1:28

But the destruction of the transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

Isaiah 10:6

I will send him against an ungodly nation, and against the people of My wrath I will give him a command, to seize the plunder, to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Isaiah 12:6

Cry out and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion. For great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst.

Isaiah 14:20

You shall not be joined with them in burial because you have destroyed your land and slain your people. The seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.

Isaiah 29:19

The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 3:8

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen, because their tongue and their deeds are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of His glory.

Isaiah 30:1

Woe to the rebellious children, says the Lord, who take counsel, but not from Me, and make an alliance, but not of My Spirit, in order to add sin to sin;

Isaiah 30:15

For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. Yet you were not willing,

Isaiah 30:9

for this is a rebellious people, lying children, children who refuse to listen to the law of the Lord;

Isaiah 31:2

Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster and will not call back His words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers and against the help of those who work iniquity.

Isaiah 37:23

Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice, and lifted up your eyes haughtily? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Isaiah 41:14

Do not fear, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you, says the Lord and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 41:16

You shall fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and you shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 41:20

that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

Isaiah 5:19

who say, “Let Him make speed and hasten His work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have cast away the law of the Lord of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 57:17

For the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry and struck him; I hid My face and was wrathful, and he went on turning away in the way of his heart.

Isaiah 58:2

Yet they seek Me daily and delight to know My ways, as a nation that has done righteousness and has not forsaken the ordinance of their God. They ask Me for the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching God.

Isaiah 65:11

But you are those who forsake the Lord, who forget My holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who furnish the drink offering for Destiny.

Isaiah 65:3

a people who provoke Me continually to My face, presenting sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on altars of brick;

Isaiah 9:17

Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, nor shall He have mercy on their fatherless and widows; for every one of them is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this His anger is not turned away, and His hand is stretched out still.

Jeremiah 15:6

You who have forsaken Me, says the Lord, you keep going backward. Therefore I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you. I am weary of relenting!

Jeremiah 2:13

For My people have committed two evils. They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Jeremiah 2:17

Have you not brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken the Lord your God when He led you in the way?

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backslidings will reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter for you to have forsaken the Lord your God, and the fear of Me is not in you, says the Lord God of Hosts.

Jeremiah 2:31

O generation, consider the word of the Lord: Have I been a wilderness to Israel? A land of darkness? Why do My people say, “We are free to roam. We will come no more to You”?

Jeremiah 2:33

You prepare your way very well to seek love. Therefore you have also taught the wicked women your ways.

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus says the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me, and have walked after vanity and have become vain?

Jeremiah 32:32

because of all the evil of the Israelites and of the Judahites which they have done to provoke Me to anger, they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 50:29

Call together the archers against Babylon. All you who bend the bow, encamp against it all around; let no one escape. Recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her, for she has been proud against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 51:5

For Israel has not been forsaken, nor Judah, by his God, the Lord of Hosts, though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 7:19

Do they provoke Me to anger? says the Lord. Do they not provoke themselves to the shame of their own faces?

Jeremiah 7:26

Yet they did not listen to Me, nor incline their ear, but hardened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.

Ezekiel 14:5

in order to seize the heart of the house of Israel who are estranged from Me through all their idols.

Ezekiel 16:33

Men give gifts to all harlots. But you give your gifts to all your lovers, and hire them that they may come to you on every side for your harlotry.

Ezekiel 16:45

You are your mother’s daughter who loathed her husband and her children. And you are the sister of your sisters who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

Daniel 9:11

Indeed, all Israel has transgressed Your law, even by departing that they might not obey Your voice. “Therefore the curse has been poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the Law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against Him.

Zephaniah 1:6

those who have turned back from following the Lord, who have not sought the Lord nor inquired of Him.

Numbers 32:14

“And behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase more the burning anger of the Lord toward Israel.

Matthew 11:28

“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 23:33

“You serpents! You generation of vipers! How can you escape the judgment of hell?

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who has warned you to escape from the wrath to come?

Romans 8:7

for the carnal mind is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be,

1 Corinthians 10:22

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

Deuteronomy 29:25

Then men will say, “Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 31:16

The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise up and begin to prostitute themselves after the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they are going to be among them, and will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.

Deuteronomy 32:19

When the Lord saw it, He despised them, because of the provocation of His sons and daughters.

Deuteronomy 32:5

They have acted corruptly to Him; they are not His children, but blemished; they are a perverse and crooked generation.

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake and fill up in my flesh that which is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church.

Revelation 18:5

For her sins have reached up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Judges 10:10

Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord, “We have sinned against You, for we have abandoned our God and worshipped the Baals.”