Isaiah 1:4

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“Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.”

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BSBPD

“Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Ah, sinning nation, a people heavy <FI>with<Fi> iniquity, A seed of evil doers, sons--corrupters! They have forsaken Jehovah, They have despised the Holy One of Israel, They have gone away backward.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 1:4 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 13:13But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.
  2. Exodus 32:7Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.
  3. Numbers 32:14Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.
  4. Deuteronomy 29:25And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.
  5. Deuteronomy 31:16And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.
  6. Deuteronomy 32:5His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.
  7. Deuteronomy 32:19When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
  8. Judges 10:10Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against You, for we have indeed forsaken our God and served the Baals.”
  9. 2 Kings 21:22He abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.
  10. 2 Chronicles 12:1After Rehoboam had established his sovereignty and royal power, he and all Israel with him forsook the Law of the LORD.
  11. 2 Chronicles 27:2And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Uzziah had done. In addition, he did not enter the temple of the LORD. But the people still behaved corruptly.
  12. Psalms 58:3The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
  13. Psalms 78:8Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
  14. Psalms 78:40How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
  15. Psalms 78:41Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
  16. Psalms 78:57They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.
  17. Psalms 89:18Surely our shield belongs to the LORD, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.
  18. Isaiah 1:23Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
  19. Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.
  20. Isaiah 5:19to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”
  21. Isaiah 5:24Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
  22. Isaiah 10:6I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
  23. Isaiah 12:6Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”
  24. Isaiah 14:20You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.

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