Isaiah 1:4

The Passion Translation

Oh, how this nation keeps sinning! See them dragging the heavy burden of their guilt! They are corrupt children, descendants of evildoers. They have turned their backs on the Lord God and despised the Holy One of Israel! They have cut themselves off from the help of God!

Cross References

Genesis 13:13

Now, the people of Sodom were extremely wicked and rebelled against Yahweh.

Psalm 58:3

Wicked wanderers even from the womb—that’s who you are! You lie with your words, and your teaching is poison.

Psalm 71:22

My loving God, the harp in my heart will praise you. Your faithful heart toward us will be the theme of my song. Melodies and music will rise to you, the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 78:40

How many times they rebelled in their desert days! How they grieved him with their grumblings.

Psalm 78:41

Again and again they limited God, preventing him from blessing them. Continually they turned back from him and provoked the Holy One of Israel!

Psalm 78:57

Like traitors turning back, they forsook him. They were even worse than their fathers! They became treacherous deceivers, crooked and corrupt, and worshiped false gods in the high places, bringing low the name of God with every idol they erected. No wonder he was filled with jealousy and furious with anger!

Psalm 78:8

By following his ways they will break the past bondage of their fickle fathers, who were a stubborn, rebellious generation and whose spirits strayed from the eternal God. They refused to love him with all their hearts.

Psalm 89:18

You are our King, the holiest one of all; your wraparound presence is our protection.

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are rebellious and companions of crooks. They are self-centered racketeers who love a bribe and who chase after payoffs. They don’t defend the fatherless or consider the rights of a helpless widow.

Isaiah 1:28

There will be a shattering of rebels and sinners together, and those who forsake the Lord will be consumed.

Isaiah 10:6

I am the one who has sent him against a godless nation and ordered him to attack a people who anger me. I sent him to take the spoil and seize the plunder and to trample them down like dust in the street.

Isaiah 12:6

Give out a shout of cheer; sing for joy, O people of Zion, for great and mighty is the Holy One of Israel who lives among you!

Isaiah 14:20

You will not have a burial like them, because you destroyed both your land and your people. May your wicked descendants never be mentioned again!

Isaiah 29:19

The meek will overflow with fresh joy in the Lord Yahweh, and the poor will shout their praises to the Holy One of Israel!

Isaiah 3:8

Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because their words and their works are defiant before the face of the Lord’s glorious presence.

Isaiah 30:1

This is what Yahweh says: “Woe to the rebellious children, who carry out their own plans but not mine, and who sign treaties without consulting my Spirit, piling one sin upon another.

Isaiah 30:15

Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, says: “Come back to me! By returning and resting in me you will be saved. In quietness and trust you will be made strong. But you refused.

Isaiah 30:9

For they are stubborn rebels, children always telling lies, who refuse to listen to Yahweh’s instruction.

Isaiah 31:2

Yet he is wiser than all of them! He can call down calamity upon evildoers and never needs to retract his words. He will stand up against the wicked and those who protect them.

Isaiah 37:23

Whom do you think you’re mocking and blaspheming? Against whom do you raise your voice? And whom have you looked down upon in your arrogance? None other than me, the Holy One of Israel!

Isaiah 41:14

“Jacob, although you feel like a grub worm, have no fear! O men of Israel, I am here to help you! I am your Kinsman-Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel!

Isaiah 41:16

You will winnow them, and the stormy wind will blow them away! Then you will spin and dance with rejoicing in Yahweh, boasting with admiration in the Holy One of Israel!

Isaiah 41:20

Everyone will see and know that I, Yahweh, with my mighty hands have done this. They will consider and comprehend that the Holy One of Israel has created it.”

Isaiah 5:19

They say, “May God hurry up and bring his judgment so that we can see it once and for all! Let the prophetic plan of the Holy One of Israel quickly come to pass so that we can see what it is!”

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, just as tongues of fire lick up the straw and dry grass, they will be destroyed, just as a plant with decaying roots and blossoms dries up like dust and is blown away in the wind. For they said, “No!” to the teachings of Yahweh, the Lord of Angel Armies, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel!

Isaiah 57:17

It was their sin and greed that made me angry, so I struck them and hid my face from them. But they continued in rebellion, following their own desires.

Isaiah 58:2

Yes, daily they seem to seek me, pretending that they delight to know my ways, as though they were a nation that does what is right and had not rejected the law of their God. They ask me to show them the right way, acting as though they are eager to be close to me.

Isaiah 65:11

“But you who forsake Yahweh and ignore my holy mountain, who celebrate a feast for the goddess called Lady Luck and fill cups of wine to toast the god Destiny, know this: your luck has run out.

Isaiah 65:3

They are a people who continually insult me to my face. They openly and defiantly offer sacrifices to their gods in their sacred groves and burn incense on pagan altars.

Isaiah 9:17

That is why the Lord did not show pity to the young people or have compassion on their orphans and widows. For everyone was godless and did evil and each mouth spewed out wickedness. Therefore, the Lord’s anger has not subsided, and his hand is poised to strike them again.

Jeremiah 15:6

I, Yahweh, say to you: You left me, turned your back on me, and walked out. So, I have stretched out my hand to punish you. I am weary of feeling sorry for you.

Jeremiah 2:13

“My people are guilty of a double sin: they have abandoned me, the Spring of Living Water, and they have dug for themselves cisterns — cracked cisterns that hold no water.”

Jeremiah 2:17

Israel, you have no one to blame but yourselves! You stubbornly turned away even though Yahweh, your God, was leading you the right way.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own wickedness punishes you. Your own unfaithfulness rebukes you. Look deep into your heart and you will learn how evil and bitter it is to forsake me, Yahweh your God, and have no awe of me. I, Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies, have spoken.”

Jeremiah 2:31

“O people of this generation, see the word of Yahweh: Have I been like a wilderness to Israel or a dangerous land full of gloom? Then why do my people say, ‘We’re free to do as we want, and we have no intention of returning to serve you anymore.’

Jeremiah 2:33

How skillfully you pursue your lovers; even the worst adulterers could learn from you.

Jeremiah 2:5

He declares to you: “What did your ancestors find wrong with me that they would run so far away from me? They left me to follow worthless idols and themselves became worthless!

Jeremiah 32:32

because of all the wickedness of the people of Israel and Judah. They have all provoked my anger, their kings, their officials, their priests, their prophets, the people of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 50:29

“Assemble the archers and attack Babylon! Encamp around her and leave no way of escape. Treat her as she has treated others and repay her for all she has done, for she was arrogant and defiant to Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 51:5

Remember, your God, Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies, has not forsaken Israel and Judah even though the land is awash with their sins against me, the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 7:19

Yet, I am not the one they are hurting, says Yahweh; they are hurting themselves to their own shame.

Jeremiah 7:26

but my people did not listen to me or obey; rather, they stubbornly did more evil than their fathers.’

Ezekiel 14:5

And in this way I hope to capture the hearts of the people of Israel who have all been estranged because of all their idols.’

Ezekiel 16:33

Men will pay a prostitute, but you give presents to all your lovers! You bribe them to come from everywhere just to sleep with you.

Ezekiel 16:45

Yes; you are a daughter exactly like your pagan mother, who hated her husband and her children. And you have become exactly like your sisters, who hated their husbands and their children. You and your sister cities had a Hittite mother and an Amorite father.

Daniel 9:11

All the people of Israel have ignored your voice; we have defied your instructions and gone astray. Now, the solemn curses confirmed by your promises of punishment in the law of your servant Moses have been poured out upon us because we sinned against you.

Matthew 11:28

“Are you weary, carrying a heavy burden? Come to me. I will refresh your life, for I am your oasis.

Matthew 23:33

You are nothing but snakes in the grass, the offspring of poisonous vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell if you refuse to turn in repentance?

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many coming from among the wealthy elite of Jewish society and many of the religious leaders known as Pharisees coming to witness the baptism, he began to denounce them, saying, “You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to slither away like snakes from the fire of God’s judgment?

Romans 8:7

In fact, the mind-set focused on the flesh fights God’s plan and refuses to submit to his direction, because it cannot!

1 Corinthians 10:22

Who would ever want to arouse the Lord’s jealousy? Is that something you think you’re strong enough to endure?

Colossians 1:24

I can even celebrate the sorrows I have experienced on your behalf; for as I join with you in your difficulties, it helps you to discover what lacks in your understanding of the sufferings Jesus Christ experienced for his body, the church.

Revelation 18:5

because her sins are heaped as high as heaven and God has remembered her vileness.

Judges 10:10

Then the Israelites desperately cried out to Yahweh, “We have sinned against you because we have abandoned our God and have worshiped the Baals.”