(Now the men of Sodom were evil, sinning immensely against the Lord.)
Isaiah 1:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Oh sinful nation, people weighed down with iniquity, brood of evildoers, depraved children! They have abandoned the Lord; they have despised the Holy One of Israel; they have turned their backs on him. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Ah, sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, sons who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised and shown contempt and provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they have become utterly estranged (alienated). American Standard Version (1901) Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly! they have forsaken Jehovah, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged and gone backward. Common English Bible Doom! Sinful nation, people weighed down with crimes, evildoing offspring, corrupt children! They have abandoned the LORD, despised the holy one of Israel; they turned their backs on God. Catholic Public Domain Version Woe to a sinful nation, a people burdened by iniquity, a wicked offspring, accursed children. They have abandoned the Lord. They have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel. They been taken away backwards. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards. |
(Now the men of Sodom were evil, sinning immensely against the Lord.)
He abandoned the Lord God of his ancestors and did not walk in the ways of the Lord.
When Rehoboam had established his sovereignty and royal power, he abandoned the law of the Lord #– #he and all Israel with him.
He did what was right in the Lord’s sight just as his father Uzziah had done. In addition, he didn’t enter the Lord’s sanctuary, but the people still behaved corruptly.
We have acted corruptly towards you and have not kept the commands, statutes, and ordinances you gave your servant Moses.
The Lord spoke to Moses: ‘Go down at once! For your people you brought up from the land of Egypt have acted corruptly.
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love graft and chase after bribes. They do not defend the rights of the fatherless, and the widow’s case never comes before them.
At the same time both rebels and sinners will be broken, and those who abandon the Lord will perish.
I will send him against a godless nation; I will command him to go against a people destined for my rage, to take spoils, to plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
Cry out and sing, citizen of Zion, for the Holy One of Israel is among you in his greatness.’
You will not join them in burial, because you destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of evildoers will never be mentioned again.
The humble will have joy after joy in the Lord, and the poor people will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they have spoken and acted against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.
Woe to the rebellious children! This is the Lord’s declaration. They carry out a plan, but not mine; they make an alliance, but against my will, piling sin on top of sin.
For the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, has said: ‘You will be delivered by returning and resting; your strength will lie in quiet confidence. But you are not willing.’
They are a rebellious people, deceptive children, children who do not want to listen to the Lord’s instruction.
But he also is wise and brings disaster. He does not go back on what he says; he will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.
Who is it you have mocked and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel. I will help you’ – this is the Lord’s declaration. Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
You will winnow them and a wind will carry them away, a whirlwind will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the Lord; you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.
so that all may see and know, consider and understand, that the hand of the Lord has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it.
to those who say, ‘Let him hurry up and do his work quickly so that we can see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel take place so that we can know it! ’
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will become like something rotten and their blossoms will blow away like dust, for they have rejected the instruction of the Lord of Armies, and they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Because of his sinful greed I was angry, so I struck him; I was angry and hid; but he went on turning back to the desires of his heart.
They seek me day after day and delight to know my ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not abandon the justice of their God. They ask me for righteous judgements; they delight in the nearness of God.’
But you who abandon the Lord, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,
These people continually anger me to my face, sacrificing in gardens, burning incense on bricks,
Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over Israel’s young men and has no compassion on its fatherless and widows, for everyone is a godless evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. In all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still raised to strike.
You have left me.’ This is the Lord’s declaration. ‘You have turned your back, so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am tired of showing compassion.
For my people have committed a double evil: They have abandoned me, the fountain of living water, and dug cisterns for themselves #– # cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.
Have you not brought this on yourself by abandoning the Lord your God while he was leading you along the way?
Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Recognise how evil and bitter it is for you to abandon the Lord your God and to have no fear of me. This is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies.
Evil generation, pay attention to the word of the Lord! Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do my people claim, ‘We will go where we want; we will no longer come to you’?
This is what the Lord says: What fault did your ancestors find in me that they went so far from me, followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?
because of all the evil the Israelites and Judeans have done to anger me #– #they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem.
Summon the archers to Babylon, all who string the bow; camp all round her; let none escape. Repay her according to her deeds; just as she has done, do the same to her, for she has acted arrogantly against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.
For Israel and Judah are not left widowed by their God, the Lord of Armies, though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
But are they really provoking me? ’ This is the Lord’s declaration. ‘Isn’t it they themselves being provoked to disgrace? ’
However, my people wouldn’t listen to me or pay attention but became obstinate; they did more evil than their ancestors.
so that I may take hold of the house of Israel by their hearts. They are all estranged from me because of their idols.”
Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from all around for your sexual favours.
You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hethite and your father an Amorite.
All Israel has broken your law and turned away, refusing to obey you. The promised curse written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, has been poured out on us because we have sinned against him.
and those who turn back from following the Lord, who do not seek the Lord or enquire of him.
And here you, a brood of sinners, stand in your ancestors’ place adding even more to the Lord’s burning anger against Israel.
‘Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
‘Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape being condemned to hell? ,
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 coming wrath?
The mindset of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit to God’s law. Indeed, it is unable to do so.
Then people will answer, “It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he had made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
The Lord said to Moses, ‘You are about to rest with your ancestors, and these people will soon prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will abandon me and break the covenant I have made with them.
When the Lord saw this, he despised them, angered by his sons and daughters.
His people have acted corruptly towards him; this is their defect #– #they are not his children but a devious and crooked generation.
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for his body, that is, the church.
For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.
so they cried out to the Lord, saying, ‘We have sinned against you. We have abandoned our God and worshipped the Baals.’