Isaiah 1:4

New International Version

Woe to the sinful nation, a people whose guilt is great, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the Lord; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him.

Cross References

Genesis 13:13

Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord.

2 Kings 21:22

He forsook the Lord, the God of his ancestors, and did not walk in obedience to him.

2 Chronicles 12:1

After Rehoboam’s position as king was established and he had become strong, he and all Israel with him abandoned the law of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 27:2

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father Uzziah had done, but unlike him he did not enter the temple of the Lord. The people, however, continued their corrupt practices.

Nehemiah 1:7

We have acted very wickedly toward you. We have not obeyed the commands, decrees and laws you gave your servant Moses.

Psalm 58:3

Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.

Psalm 71:22

I will praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God; I will sing praise to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 78:40

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the wasteland!

Psalm 78:41

Again and again they put God to the test; they vexed the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 78:57

Like their ancestors they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow.

Psalm 78:8

They would not be like their ancestors— a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him.

Psalm 89:18

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

Exodus 32:7

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt.

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them.

Isaiah 1:28

But rebels and sinners will both be broken, and those who forsake the Lord will perish.

Isaiah 10:6

I send him against a godless nation, I dispatch him against a people who anger me, to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets.

Isaiah 12:6

Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.”

Isaiah 14:20

you will not join them in burial, for you have destroyed your land and killed your people. Let the offspring of the wicked never be mentioned again.

Isaiah 29:19

Once more the humble will rejoice in the Lord; the needy will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 3:8

Jerusalem staggers, Judah is falling; their words and deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.

Isaiah 30:1

“Woe to the obstinate children,” declares the Lord, “to those who carry out plans that are not mine, forming an alliance, but not by my Spirit, heaping sin upon sin;

Isaiah 30:15

This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it.

Isaiah 30:9

For these are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to listen to the Lord’s instruction.

Isaiah 31:2

Yet he too is wise and can bring disaster; he does not take back his words. He will rise up against that wicked nation, against those who help evildoers.

Isaiah 37:23

Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Isaiah 41:14

Do not be afraid, you worm Jacob, little Israel, do not fear, for I myself will help you,” declares the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 41:16

You will winnow them, the wind will pick them up, and a gale will blow them away. But you will rejoice in the Lord and glory in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 41:20

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

Isaiah 5:19

to those who say, “Let God hurry; let him hasten his work so we may see it. The plan of the Holy One of Israel— let it approach, let it come into view, so we may know it.”

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 57:17

I was enraged by their sinful greed; I punished them, and hid my face in anger, yet they kept on in their willful ways.

Isaiah 58:2

For day after day they seek me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken the commands of its God. They ask me for just decisions and seem eager for God to come near them.

Isaiah 65:11

“But as for you who forsake the Lord and forget my holy mountain, who spread a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,

Isaiah 65:3

a people who continually provoke me to my very face, offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on altars of brick;

Isaiah 9:17

Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men, nor will he pity the fatherless and widows, for everyone is ungodly and wicked, every mouth speaks folly. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

Jeremiah 15:6

You have rejected me,” declares the Lord. “You keep on backsliding. So I will reach out and destroy you; I am tired of holding back.

Jeremiah 2:13

“My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

Jeremiah 2:17

Have you not brought this on yourselves by forsaking the Lord your God when he led you in the way?

Jeremiah 2:19

Your wickedness will punish you; your backsliding will rebuke you. Consider then and realize how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the Lord your God and have no awe of me,” declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

Jeremiah 2:31

“You of this generation, consider the word of the Lord: “Have I been a desert to Israel or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to you no more’?

Jeremiah 2:33

How skilled you are at pursuing love! Even the worst of women can learn from your ways.

Jeremiah 2:5

This is what the Lord says: “What fault did your ancestors find in me, that they strayed so far from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves.

Jeremiah 32:32

The people of Israel and Judah have provoked me by all the evil they have done—they, their kings and officials, their priests and prophets, the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 50:29

“Summon archers against Babylon, all those who draw the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her for her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 51:5

For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the Lord Almighty, though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 7:19

But am I the one they are provoking? declares the Lord. Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame?

Jeremiah 7:26

But they did not listen to me or pay attention. They were stiff-necked and did more evil than their ancestors.’

Ezekiel 14:5

I will do this to recapture the hearts of the people of Israel, who have all deserted me for their idols.’

Ezekiel 16:33

All prostitutes receive gifts, but you give gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.

Ezekiel 16:45

You are a true daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and her children; and you are a true sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

Daniel 9:11

All Israel has transgressed your law and turned away, refusing to obey you. “Therefore the curses and sworn judgments written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against you.

Zephaniah 1:6

those who turn back from following the Lord and neither seek the Lord nor inquire of him.”

Numbers 32:14

“And here you are, a brood of sinners, standing in the place of your fathers and making the Lord even more angry with Israel.

Matthew 11:28

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 23:33

“You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Romans 8:7

The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Are we trying to arouse the Lord’s jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

Deuteronomy 29:25

And the answer will be: “It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 31:16

And the Lord said to Moses: “You are going to rest with your ancestors, and these people will soon prostitute themselves to the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake me and break the covenant I made with them.

Deuteronomy 32:19

The Lord saw this and rejected them because he was angered by his sons and daughters.

Deuteronomy 32:5

They are corrupt and not his children; to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.

Revelation 18:5

for her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.

Judges 10:10

Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord, “We have sinned against you, forsaking our God and serving the Baals.”