Isaiah 30:9 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised They are a rebellious people, deceptive children, children who do not want to listen to the Lord’s instruction. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For this is a rebellious people, faithless and lying sons, children who will not hear the law and instruction of the Lord; American Standard Version (1901) For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah; Common English Bible These are rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the LORD’s teaching, Catholic Public Domain Version For they are a people who provoke to wrath, and they are lying sons, sons unwilling to listen to the law of God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For it is a people that provoketh to wrath, and lying children, children that will not hear the law of God. |
Anyone who turns his ear away from hearing the law – even his prayer is detestable.
Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
Listen, heavens, and pay attention, earth, for the Lord has spoken: ‘I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.
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.
Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger – the staff in their hands is my wrath.
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.
The earth is polluted by its inhabitants, for they have transgressed teachings, overstepped decrees, and broken the permanent covenant.
For you said, ‘We have made a covenant with Death, and we have an agreement with Sheol; when the overwhelming catastrophe passes through, it will not touch us, because we have made falsehood our refuge and have hidden behind treachery.’
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.
Because I know that you are stubborn, and your neck is iron and your forehead bronze,
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.
He said, ‘They are indeed my people, children who will not be disloyal,’ and he became their Saviour.
I spread out my hands all day long to a rebellious people who walk in the path that is not good, following their own thoughts.
The words of Jonadab, son of Rechab, have been carried out. He commanded his descendants not to drink wine, and they have not drunk to this day because they have obeyed their ancestor’s command. But I have spoken to you time and time again, , and you have not obeyed me!
Now, because you have done all these things #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #and because I have spoken to you time and time again but you wouldn’t listen, and I have called to you, but you wouldn’t answer,
Therefore, declare to them, “This is the nation that would not listen to the Lord their God and would not accept discipline. Truth has perished #– #it has disappeared from their mouths.
They bent their tongues like their bows; lies and not faithfulness prevail in the land, for they proceed from one evil to another, and they do not take me into account. This is the Lord’s declaration.
Now speak a parable to the rebellious house. Tell them, “This is what the Lord God says: Put the pot on the fire – put it on, and then pour water into it!
Cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
She has not obeyed; she has not accepted discipline. She has not trusted in the Lord; she has not drawn near to her God.
‘You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit. As your ancestors did, you do also.
He said, ‘I will hide my face from them; I will see what will become of them, for they are a perverse generation – unfaithful children.
But the cowards, faithless, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars #– #their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.’
Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practises falsehood.