Isaiah 1:4 “Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildo…”

Isaiah 1:4

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Ah, sinfull nation, a people laden with iniquitie: a seede of the wicked, corrupt children: they haue forsaken the Lord: they haue prouoked the holy one of Israel to anger: they are gone backewarde.

Darby Translation

Ah sinful nation, 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 away backward.

Young's Literal Translation

Ah, sinning nation, a people heavy [with] 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.

Bible in Basic English

O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.

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Cross references

“Ah sinful”

Isaiah 1:23 Isaiah 10:6 Isaiah 30:9 Genesis 13:13 Matthew 11:28 Revelation 18:5

Isaiah 1:23 · BSB

Your 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.

Isaiah 10:6 · BSB

I 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.

Isaiah 30:9 · BSB

These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.

Genesis 13:13 · BSB

But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

Matthew 11:28 · BSB

Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Revelation 18:5 · BSB

For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

“a seed”

Matthew 3:7 Numbers 32:14 Psalm 78:8 Jeremiah 7:26 Matthew 23:33 Isaiah 57:3

Matthew 3:7 · BSB

But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Numbers 32:14 · BSB

Now 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.

Psalm 78:8 · BSB

Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Jeremiah 7:26 · BSB

Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.

Matthew 23:33 · BSB

You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?

Isaiah 57:3 · BSB

“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!

“children”

Jeremiah 2:33 Ezekiel 16:33

Jeremiah 2:33 · BSB

How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.

Ezekiel 16:33 · BSB

Men give gifts to all their prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.

“forsaken”

Jeremiah 2:17 Jeremiah 2:13 Jeremiah 2:19 Deuteronomy 29:25 Deuteronomy 31:16 Judges 10:10

Jeremiah 2:17 · BSB

Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?

Jeremiah 2:13 · BSB

“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns— broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

Jeremiah 2:19 · BSB

Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

Deuteronomy 29:25 · BSB

And 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.

Deuteronomy 31:16 · BSB

And 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…

Judges 10:10 · BSB

Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against You, for we have indeed forsaken our God and served the Baals.”

“provoked”

Jeremiah 7:19 Isaiah 3:8 Isaiah 65:3 Deuteronomy 32:19 Psalm 78:40 1 Corinthians 10:22

Jeremiah 7:19 · BSB

But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?

Isaiah 3:8 · BSB

For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.

Isaiah 65:3 · BSB

to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,

Deuteronomy 32:19 · BSB

When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

Psalm 78:40 · BSB

How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

1 Corinthians 10:22 · BSB

Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

“the Holy”

Isaiah 5:24 Isaiah 5:19 Isaiah 29:19 Isaiah 30:15 Isaiah 37:23 Isaiah 41:14

Isaiah 5:24 · BSB

Therefore, 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 Host…

Isaiah 5:19 · BSB

to 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!”

Isaiah 29:19 · BSB

The humble will increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 30:15 · BSB

For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence— but you were not willing.”

Isaiah 37:23 · BSB

Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Isaiah 41:14 · BSB

Do not fear, O Jacob, you worm, O few men of Israel. I will help you,” declares the LORD. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

“gone away backward”

Romans 8:7 Psalm 58:3 Jeremiah 2:5 Jeremiah 2:31 Colossians 1:24

Romans 8:7 · BSB

because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

Psalm 58:3 · BSB

The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.

Jeremiah 2:5 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves.

Jeremiah 2:31 · BSB

You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?

Colossians 1:24 · BSB

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions for the sake of His body, which is the church.

Also

Isaiah 14:20

Isaiah 14:20 · BSB

You 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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”

5Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.

Read Isaiah 1