Isaiah 1:4

New King James Version

Alas, sinful nation, A people laden with iniquity, A brood of evildoers, Children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the Lord, They have provoked to anger The Holy One of Israel, They have turned away backward.

Cross References

Genesis 13:13

But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the Lord.

2 Kings 21:22

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

2 Chronicles 12:1

Now it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom and had strengthened himself, that he forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel along with him.

2 Chronicles 27:2

And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Uzziah had done (although he did not enter the temple of the Lord). But still the people acted corruptly.

Nehemiah 1:7

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

Psalm 58:3

The wicked are estranged from the womb; They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Psalm 71:22

Also with the lute I will praise You— And Your faithfulness, O my God! To You I will sing with the harp, 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

Yes, again and again they tempted God, And limited the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 78:57

But turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers; They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

Psalm 78:8

And may not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that did not set its heart aright, And 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

And the Lord said to Moses, “Go, 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 bribes, And follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, Nor does the cause of the widow come before them.

Isaiah 1:28

The destruction of transgressors and of 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 charge, To seize the spoil, to take the prey, And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Isaiah 12:6

Cry out and shout, O inhabitant of Zion, For great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst!”

Isaiah 14:20

You will not be joined with them in burial, Because you have destroyed your land And slain your people. The brood of evildoers shall never be named.

Isaiah 29:19

The humble 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 stumbled, And Judah is fallen, Because their tongue and their doings 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 of Me, And who devise plans, but not of My Spirit, That they may 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 confidence shall be your strength.” But you would not,

Isaiah 30:9

That this is a rebellious people, Lying children, Children who will not hear 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 evildoers, And against the help of those who work iniquity.

Isaiah 37:23

“Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice, And lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 41:14

“Fear not, you worm Jacob, You men of Israel! I will help you,” says the Lord And your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 41:16

You shall winnow them, the wind shall carry them away, And the whirlwind shall scatter them; You shall rejoice in the Lord, And 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

That 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 will be as rottenness, And their blossom will ascend like dust; Because they have rejected 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 covetousness I was angry and struck him; I hid and was angry, And he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

Isaiah 58:2

Yet they seek Me daily, And delight to know My ways, As a nation that did righteousness, And did not forsake the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me 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 Gad, And who furnish a drink offering for Meni.

Isaiah 65:3

A people who provoke Me to anger continually to My face; Who sacrifice in gardens, And burn incense on altars of brick;

Isaiah 9:17

Therefore the Lord will have no joy in their young men, Nor have mercy on their fatherless and widows; For everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer, And every mouth speaks folly. For all this His anger is not turned away, But His hand is stretched out still.

Jeremiah 15:6

You have forsaken Me,” says the Lord, “You have gone 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 hewn 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 rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing That you 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, see the word of the Lord! Have I been a wilderness to Israel, Or a land of darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are lords; We will come no more to You’?

Jeremiah 2:33

“Why do you beautify your way to seek love? Therefore you have also taught The wicked women your ways.

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus says the Lord: “What injustice have your fathers found in Me, That they have gone far from Me, Have followed idols, And have become idolaters?

Jeremiah 32:32

because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their kings, their princes, their priests, their prophets, 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 none of them escape. Repay her according to her work; According to all 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 is not 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 obey Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.

Ezekiel 14:5

that I may seize the house of Israel by their heart, because they are all estranged from Me by their idols.” ’

Ezekiel 16:33

Men make payment to all harlots, but you made your payments to all your lovers, and hired them to come to you from all around for your harlotry.

Ezekiel 16:45

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

Daniel 9:11

Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him.

Zephaniah 1:6

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

Numbers 32:14

And look! You have risen in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel.

Matthew 11:28

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 23:33

Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Romans 8:7

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

Deuteronomy 29:25

Then people would 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

And the Lord said to Moses: “Behold, you will rest with your fathers; and this people will rise and play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.

Deuteronomy 32:19

“And when the Lord saw it, He spurned them, Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.

Deuteronomy 32:5

“They have corrupted themselves; They are not His children, Because of their blemish: A perverse and crooked generation.

Colossians 1:24

I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what 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 to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Judges 10:10

And the children of Israel cried out to the Lord, saying, “We have sinned against You, because we have both forsaken our God and served the Baals!”