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

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alienated, or, separated,

Psa. 58:3• ³The wicked are estranged from the womb;{HR}They err from the birth (belly), 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 gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come 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• ⁹For it 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• ¹³{i}And the people of Sodom were wicked, and great sinners before Jehovah.{/i} (Gen. 13:13)

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

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Acts 7:51‑52• ⁵¹Stiffnecked and uncircumcised in hearts and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers so ye.
⁵²Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they slew those that announced beforehand of the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye became betrayers and murderers, (Acts 7:51‑52)

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Rev. 18:5• ⁵for her sins have reached unto the heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. (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 whore.
⁴Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Against whom make ye 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• ¹⁴{i}And behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, a progeny of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel.{/i} (Num. 32:14)

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Psa. 78:8• ⁸And might not be as their fathers,{HR}A stubborn and rebellious generation,{HR}A generation that set (prepared) not their hearts,{HR}And whose spirit was not steadfast with God (El). (Psa. 78:8)

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Jer. 7:26• ²⁶{i}but they have not hearkened unto me, nor inclined their ear; and they have hardened their neck: they have done worse than their fathers.{/i} (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 ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me: (Jer. 16:11‑12)

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Matt. 3:7• ⁷{i}But 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?{/i} (Matt. 3:7)

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

children.

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

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Ezek. 16:33• ³³They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom. (Ezek. 16:33)

forsaken.

Deut. 29:25• ²⁵{i}And 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;{/i} (Deut. 29:25)

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Deut. 31:16• ¹⁶{i}And 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.{/i} (Deut. 31:16)

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Judg. 10:10• ¹⁰{i}And 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.{/i} (Judg. 10:10)

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Jer. 2:13,17,19• ¹³{i}For 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.{/i}
¹⁷{i}Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, at the time he was leading thee in the way?{/i}
¹⁹{i}Thine 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.{/i} (Jer. 2:13,17,19)

provoked.

Isa. 3:8• ⁸For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: 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; that sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense upon the bricks; (Isa. 65:3)

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

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Psa. 78:40• ⁴⁰How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness{HR}And grieve him in the desert! (Psa. 78:40)

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Jer. 7:19• ¹⁹Do they provoke me to anger? saith Jehovah: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces? (Jer. 7:19)

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1 Cor. 10:22• ²²What! do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? (1 Cor. 10:22)

the Holy.

Isa. 5:19,24• ¹⁹Let him make speed, let him hasten 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 the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, [so] their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because 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, O inhabitress of Zion;{HR}For great in the midst of thee [is] the Holy One of Israel. (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 trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay 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 few 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 to Jehovah [belongeth] our shield,{HR}And to the Holy one of Israel, our king. (Psa. 89:18)

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Jer. 50:29• ²⁹Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel. (Jer. 50:29)

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Jer. 51:5• ⁵For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of Jehovah of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel. (Jer. 51:5)

gone away backward.

Heb. alienated, or separated.

Psa. 58:3• ³The wicked are estranged from the womb;{HR}They err from the birth (belly), speaking lies. (Psa. 58:3)

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Jer. 2:5,31• ⁵{i}Thus 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?{/i}
³¹{i}O 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?{/i} (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 indeed it cannot; (Rom. 8:7)

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Col. 1:24• ²⁴who now rejoice in sufferings for you, and fill up what is wanting of the afflictions 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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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."

W. Kelly Translation

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Ah! sinful nation; a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children corrupting themselves. They have forsaken Jehovah; they have despised the Holy One of Israel; they are estranged backward.