Isaiah 1:4

New Century Version

How terrible! Israel is a nation of sin, a people loaded down with guilt, a group of children doing evil, children who are full of evil. They have left the Lord; they hate God, the Holy One of Israel, and have turned away from him as if he were a stranger.

Cross References

Genesis 13:13

Now the people of Sodom were very evil and were always sinning against the Lord.

2 Kings 21:22

Amon rejected the Lord, the God of his ancestors, and did not follow the ways of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 12:1

After Rehoboam’s kingdom was set up and he became strong, he and the people of Judah stopped obeying the teachings of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 27:2

Jotham did what the Lord said was right, just as his father Uzziah had done. But Jotham did not enter the Temple of the Lord to burn incense as his father had. But the people continued doing wrong.

Nehemiah 1:7

We have been wicked toward you and have not obeyed the commands, rules, and laws you gave your servant Moses.

Psalm 58:3

From birth, evil people turn away from God; they wander off and tell lies as soon as they are born.

Psalm 71:22

I will praise you with the harp. I trust you, my God. I will sing to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 78:40

They turned against God so often in the desert and grieved him there.

Psalm 78:41

Again and again they tested God and brought pain to the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 78:57

They turned away and were disloyal just like their ancestors. They were like a crooked bow that does not shoot straight.

Psalm 78:8

They would not be like their ancestors who were stubborn and disobedient. Their hearts were not loyal to God, and they were not true to him.

Psalm 89:18

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

Exodus 32:7

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go down from this mountain, because your people, the people you brought out of the land of Egypt, have ruined themselves.

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are rebels and friends of thieves. They all accept money for doing wrong, and they are paid to cheat people. They don’t seek justice for the orphans or listen to the widows’ needs.

Isaiah 1:28

But sinners and those who turn against him will be destroyed; those who have left the Lord will die.

Isaiah 10:6

I send it to fight against a nation that is separated from God. I am angry with those people, so I command Assyria to fight against them, to take their wealth from them, to trample them down like dirt in the streets.

Isaiah 12:6

Shout and sing for joy, you people of Jerusalem, because the Holy One of Israel does great things before your eyes.”

Isaiah 14:20

You will not be buried with those bodies, because you ruined your own country and killed your own people. The children of evil people will never be mentioned again.

Isaiah 29:19

The Lord will make the poor people happy; they will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 3:8

This will happen because Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen. The things they say and do are against the Lord; they turn against him.

Isaiah 30:1

The Lord said, “How terrible it will be for these stubborn children. They make plans, but they don’t ask me to help them. They make agreements with other nations, without asking my Spirit. They are adding more and more sins to themselves.

Isaiah 30:15

This is what the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, says: “If you come back to me and trust me, you will be saved. If you will be calm and trust me, you will be strong.” But you don’t want to do that.

Isaiah 30:9

These people are like children who lie and refuse to obey; they refuse to listen to the Lord’s teachings.

Isaiah 31:2

But he is wise and can bring them disaster. He does not change his warnings. He will rise up and fight against the evil people and against those who try to help evil people.

Isaiah 37:23

You have insulted me and spoken against me; you have raised your voice against me. You have a proud look on your face, which is against me, the Holy One of Israel!

Isaiah 41:14

You few people of Israel who are left, do not be afraid even though you are weak as a worm. I myself will help you,” says the Lord. “The one who saves you is the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 41:16

You will throw them into the air, and the wind will carry them away; a windstorm will scatter them. Then you will be happy in the Lord; you will be proud of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 41:20

People will see these things and understand; they will think carefully about these things and learn that the Lord’s power did this, that the Holy One of Israel made these things.”

Isaiah 5:19

They say, “Let God hurry; let him do his work soon so we may see it. Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel happen soon so that we will know what it is.”

Isaiah 5:24

They will be destroyed just as fire burns straw or dry grass. They will be destroyed like a plant whose roots rot and whose flower dies and blows away like dust. They have refused to obey the teachings of the Lord All-Powerful and have hated the message from the Holy God of Israel.

Isaiah 57:17

I was angry because they were dishonest in order to make money. I punished them and turned away from them in anger, but they continued to do evil.

Isaiah 58:2

They still come every day looking for me and want to learn my ways. They act just like a nation that does what is right, that obeys the commands of its God. They ask me to judge them fairly. They want God to be near them.

Isaiah 65:11

“But as for you who left the Lord, who forgot about my holy mountain, who worship the god Luck, who hold religious feasts for the god Fate,

Isaiah 65:3

Right in front of me they continue to do things that make me angry. They offer sacrifices to their gods in their gardens, and they burn incense on altars of brick.

Isaiah 9:17

So the Lord is not happy with the young people, nor will he show mercy to the orphans and widows. All the people are separated from God and are very evil; they all speak lies. But the Lord is still angry; his hand is still raised to strike down the people.

Jeremiah 15:6

Jerusalem, you have left me,” says the Lord. “You keep going farther and farther away, so I have taken hold of you and destroyed you. I was tired of holding back my anger.

Jeremiah 2:13

“My people have done two evils: They have turned away from me, the spring of living water. And they have dug their own wells, which are broken wells that cannot hold water.

Jeremiah 2:17

Haven’t you brought this on yourselves by turning away from the Lord your God when he was leading you in the right way?

Jeremiah 2:19

Your evil will bring punishment to you, and the wrong you have done will teach you a lesson. Think about it and understand that it is a terrible evil to turn away from the Lord your God. It is wrong not to fear me,” says the Lord God All-Powerful.

Jeremiah 2:31

“People of Judah, pay attention to the word of the Lord: Have I been like a desert to the people of Israel or like a dark and dangerous land? Why do my people say, ‘We are free to wander. We won’t come to you anymore’?

Jeremiah 2:33

You really know how to chase after love. Even the worst women can learn evil ways from you.

Jeremiah 2:5

This is what the Lord says: “I was fair to your ancestors, so why did they turn away from me? Your ancestors worshiped useless idols and became useless themselves.

Jeremiah 32:32

I will destroy it, because of all the evil the people of Israel and Judah have done. The people, their kings and officers, their priests and prophets, all the people of Judah, and the people of Jerusalem have made me angry.

Jeremiah 50:29

“Call for the archers to come against Babylon. Tell them to surround the city, and let no one escape. Pay her back for what she has done; do to her what she has done to other nations. Babylon acted with pride against the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 51:5

The Lord God All-Powerful did not leave Israel and Judah, even though they were completely guilty in the presence of the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 7:19

But I am not the one the people of Judah are really hurting, says the Lord. They are only hurting themselves and bringing shame upon themselves.

Jeremiah 7:26

But your ancestors did not listen or pay attention to me. They were very stubborn and did more evil than their ancestors.’

Ezekiel 14:5

Then I will win back my people Israel, who have left me because of all their idols.’

Ezekiel 16:33

Men pay prostitutes, but you pay all your lovers to come to you. And they come from all around for sexual relations.

Ezekiel 16:45

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

Daniel 9:11

All the people of Israel have disobeyed your teachings and have turned away, refusing to obey you. So you brought on us the curses and promises of punishment written in the Teachings of Moses, the servant of God, because we sinned against you.

Zephaniah 1:6

and those who turned away from the Lord, and those who quit following the Lord and praying to him for direction.

Numbers 32:14

and now you are acting just like your ancestors! You sinful people are making the Lord even more angry with Israel.

Matthew 11:28

“Come to me, all of you who are tired and have heavy loads, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 23:33

“You are snakes! A family of poisonous snakes! How are you going to escape God’s judgment?

Matthew 3:7

Many of the Pharisees and Sadducees came to the place where John was baptizing people. When John saw them, he said, “You are snakes! Who warned you to run away from God’s coming punishment?

Romans 8:7

When people’s thinking is controlled by the sinful self, they are against God, because they refuse to obey God’s law and really are not even able to obey God’s law.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Are we trying to make the Lord jealous? We are not stronger than he is, are we?

Deuteronomy 29:25

And the answer will be, “It is because the people broke the Agreement of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 31:16

And the Lord said to Moses, “You will soon die. Then these people will not be loyal to me but will worship the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will leave me, breaking the Agreement I made with them.

Deuteronomy 32:19

The Lord saw this and rejected them; his sons and daughters had made him angry.

Deuteronomy 32:5

They have done evil against him. To their shame they are no longer his children; they are an evil and lying people.

Colossians 1:24

I am happy in my sufferings for you. There are things that Christ must still suffer through his body, the church. I am accepting, in my body, my part of these things that must be suffered.

Revelation 18:5

Her sins have piled up as high as the sky, and God has not forgotten the wrongs she has done.

Judges 10:10

So the Israelites cried out to the Lord, “We have sinned against you. We left our God and worshiped the Baal idols.”