Isaiah 1:4

King James Version 1769 (Standard 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.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 5:24 : 24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
  • Jer 2:13 : 13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
  • Jer 2:17 : 17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
  • Jer 7:19 : 19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
  • Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
  • Isa 5:19 : 19 That say, Let him make speed, and 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!
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
  • Matt 23:33 : 33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
  • Acts 7:51-52 : 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. 52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
  • Rom 8:7 : 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
  • 1 Cor 10:22 : 22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
  • Col 1:24 : 24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
  • Jer 7:26 : 26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
  • Jer 16:11-12 : 11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law; 12 And 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 50:29 : 29 Call 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 the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
  • Jer 51:5 : 5 For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.
  • Ezek 16:33 : 33 They 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.
  • Jer 2:19 : 19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
  • Jer 2:31 : 31 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
  • Jer 2:33 : 33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
  • Isa 10:6 : 6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
  • Isa 12:6 : 6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
  • Isa 14:20 : 20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
  • Isa 29:19 : 19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 30:9 : 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
  • Isa 30:11-12 : 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. 12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
  • Isa 30:15 : 15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
  • Isa 37:23 : 23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 41:14 : 14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 41:16 : 16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 41:20 : 20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
  • Isa 57:3-4 : 3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. 4 Against 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 65:3 : 3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
  • Jer 2:5 : 5 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
  • Gen 13:13 : 13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
  • Num 32:14 : 14 And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
  • Deut 29:25 : 25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he ma with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
  • Deut 31:16 : 16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have ma with them.
  • Deut 32:19 : 19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
  • Judg 10:10 : 10 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.
  • Ps 58:3 : 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
  • Ps 78:8 : 8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
  • Ps 78:40 : 40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
  • Ps 89:18 : 18 For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
  • Isa 1:23 : 23 Thy 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 3:8 : 8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
  • Rev 18:5 : 5 For her sins have ached unto heaven, and God hath membed her iniquities.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Isa 1:5
    79%

    5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

  • Isa 1:2-3
    2 verses
    78%

    2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

    3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

  • Isa 30:9
    77%

    9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:

  • Jer 3:20-22
    3 verses
    76%

    20 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.

    21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.

    22 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.

  • Hos 14:1
    76%

    1 O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for tu hast fallen by thine iniquity.

  • Jer 2:31
    76%

    31 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

  • Isa 31:6
    75%

    6 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

  • Hos 4:1
    75%

    1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

  • Isa 59:13
    75%

    13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

  • Jer 5:23
    75%

    23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

  • Jer 14:10
    75%

    10 Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

  • Jer 15:6
    74%

    6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.

  • Jer 8:5
    74%

    5 Why then is this people of usalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

  • Jer 11:10
    74%

    10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

  • Jer 4:22
    74%

    22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  • 2 Chr 29:6
    74%

    6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.

  • Jer 2:19
    73%

    19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

  • Jer 5:7
    73%

    7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

  • Zech 1:4
    73%

    4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.

  • Jer 32:30
    73%

    30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.

  • Jer 3:13
    73%

    13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.

  • Zeph 1:6
    73%

    6 And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for him.

  • Jer 18:13
    73%

    13 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.

  • Hos 5:4
    73%

    4 They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of wredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

  • Hos 11:7
    73%

    7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: tugh they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

  • Isa 3:9
    73%

    9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • Deut 32:5
    73%

    5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

  • Isa 30:1
    73%

    1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

  • Jer 4:1
    73%

    1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.

  • Hos 8:5
    72%

    5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: w long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

  • Hos 4:6-8
    3 verses
    72%

    6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because tu hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that tu shalt be no priest to me: seeing tu hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

    7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.

    8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

  • Dan 9:5
    72%

    5 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:

  • Isa 57:4
    72%

    4 Against 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 5:24
    72%

    24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

  • Dan 9:14
    72%

    14 Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.

  • Jer 2:3
    72%

    3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.

  • Jer 14:20
    72%

    20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.

  • Mic 1:5
    72%

    5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?

  • Ps 53:3
    72%

    3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

  • Jer 4:8
    72%

    8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

  • Mal 2:8
    72%

    8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

  • Isa 1:7
    72%

    7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

  • Jer 2:5
    72%

    5 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

  • Jer 2:13
    72%

    13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

  • Jer 5:11
    72%

    11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.