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Isa. 1:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Ah sinful nation, a people βladen with iniquityk, 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 γgone away backward.

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of heaviness.

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Matt. 11:28• ²⁸Come to me, all ye who labour and are burdened, and *I* will give you rest. (Matt. 11:28)

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alienated, or, separated,

Psa. 58:3• ³The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies. (Psa. 58:3)

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Ah sinful.

Isa. 1:23• ²³thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth presents, and hunteth after rewards; they judge not the fatherless, and the cause of the widow cometh not unto them. (Isa. 1:23)

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Isa. 10:6• ⁶I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge; to take the spoil, and to seize the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. (Isa. 10:6)

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Isa. 30:9• ⁹that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah; (Isa. 30:9)

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Gen. 13:13• ¹³And the people of Sodom were wicked, and great sinners before Jehovah. (Gen. 13:13)

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Matt. 11:28• ²⁸Come to me, all ye who labour and are burdened, and *I* will give you rest. (Matt. 11:28)

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Acts 7:51‑52• ⁵¹O stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, *ye* do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers, *ye* also.
⁵²Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom *ye* have now become deliverers up and murderers! (Acts 7:51‑52)

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Rev. 18:5• ⁵for her sins have been heaped on one another up to the heaven, and God has remembered her unrighteousnesses. (Rev. 18:5)

laden with iniquity.

Heb. of heaviness.

a seed.

Isa. 57:3‑4• ³But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.
⁴Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Against whom do ye make a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? Are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood, (Isa. 57:3‑4)

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Num. 32:14• ¹⁴And behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, a progeny of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel. (Num. 32:14)

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Psa. 78:8• ⁸And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with *God. (Psa. 78:8)

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Jer. 7:26• ²⁶but they have not hearkened unto me, nor inclined their ear; and they have hardened their neck: they have done worse than their fathers. (Jer. 7:26)

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Jer. 16:11‑12• ¹¹then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith Jehovah, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
¹²and you, ye have done still worse than your fathers; and there ye are walking every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, not to hearken unto me: (Jer. 16:11‑12)

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Matt. 3:7• ⁷But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of vipers, who has forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath? (Matt. 3:7)

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Matt. 23:33• ³³Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should ye escape the judgment of hell? (Matt. 23:33)

children.

Jer. 2:33• ³³How dost thou trim thy way to seek love! Therefore hast thou also accustomed thy ways to wickedness. (Jer. 2:33)

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Ezek. 16:33• ³³They give rewards to all harlots; but thou gavest thy rewards to all thy lovers, and rewardedst them, that they might come unto thee on every side for thy whoredoms. (Ezek. 16:33)

forsaken.

Deut. 29:25• ²⁵And men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah the God of their fathers, which he had made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt; (Deut. 29:25)

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Deut. 31:16• ¹⁶And Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the strange gods of the land into which they enter, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. (Deut. 31:16)

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Judg. 10:10• ¹⁰And the children of Israel cried to Jehovah, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served the Baals. (Judg. 10:10)

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Jer. 2:13,17,19• ¹³For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, to hew them out cisterns, broken cisterns that hold no water.
¹⁷Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, at the time he was leading thee in the way?
¹⁹Thine own wickedness chastiseth thee, and thy backslidings reprove thee: know then and see that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts. (Jer. 2:13,17,19)

provoked.

Isa. 3:8• ⁸For Jerusalem stumbleth and Judah falleth, because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory. (Isa. 3:8)

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Isa. 65:3• ³the people that provoke me to anger continually to my face, sacrificing in gardens and burning incense upon the bricks; (Isa. 65:3)

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Deut. 32:19• ¹⁹And Jehovah saw it, and despised them, Because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters. (Deut. 32:19)

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Psa. 78:40• ⁴⁰How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! (Psa. 78:40)

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Jer. 7:19• ¹⁹Is it I whom they provoke to anger? saith Jehovah; is it not themselves, to the shame of their own face? (Jer. 7:19)

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1 Cor. 10:22• ²²Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? (1 Cor. 10:22)

the Holy.

Isa. 5:19,24• ¹⁹who say, Let him hasten, let him speed his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
²⁴Therefore as a tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and dry grass sinketh down in the flame, their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; for they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. (Isa. 5:19,24)

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Isa. 12:6• ⁶Cry out and shout, thou inhabitress of Zion; for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee. (Isa. 12:6)

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Isa. 29:19• ¹⁹and the meek shall increase their joy in Jehovah, and the needy among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. (Isa. 29:19)

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Isa. 30:11‑12,15• ¹¹get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us!
¹²Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because ye reject this word, and confide in oppression and wilfulness, and depend thereon,
¹⁵For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest shall ye be saved, in quietness and confidence shall be your strength; but ye would not. (Isa. 30:11‑12,15)

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Isa. 37:23• ²³Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted the voice? Against the Holy One of Israel hast thou lifted up thine eyes on high. (Isa. 37:23)

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Isa. 41:14,16,20• ¹⁴Fear not, thou worm Jacob, ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith Jehovah, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
¹⁶thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
²⁰that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of Jehovah hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it. (Isa. 41:14,16,20)

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Psa. 89:18• ¹⁸For Jehovah is our shield, and the Holy One of Israel, our king. (Psa. 89:18)

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Jer. 50:29• ²⁹Call together the archers against Babylon, all those that bend the bow: encamp against her round about; let there be no escaping: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath acted proudly against Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel. (Jer. 50:29)

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Jer. 51:5• ⁵For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of Jehovah of hosts; for their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel. (Jer. 51:5)

gone away backward.

Heb. alienated, or separated.

Psa. 58:3• ³The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies. (Psa. 58:3)

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Jer. 2:5,31• ⁵Thus saith Jehovah: What injustice have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and become vain?
³¹O generation, mark ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Wherefore say my people, We have dominion; we will come no more unto thee? (Jer. 2:5,31)

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Rom. 8:7• ⁷Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be: (Rom. 8:7)

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Col. 1:24• ²⁴Now, I rejoice in sufferings for you, and I fill up that which is behind of the tribulations of Christ in my flesh, for his body, which is the assembly; (Col. 1:24)

• The terrible indictment of verse 4. They were sinful and marked by iniquity, evil-doing, corruption, alienation; and all this was while God-fearing kings were on the throne. It illumines what is said in 2 Chronicles 27, the end of verse 2. (“Isaiah 1” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Ahb sinful nationc, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that corrupt themselves! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have despised the Holy One of Israel; they are turned awayd backward.

JND Translation Notes

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b

Or "Woe to the."

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Goi. the nations in contrast with God's people, used of Israel when disowned, as Ps. 43.1.

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Lit. "are estranged."