Isaiah 57:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open wide your mouth and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of rebellion, offspring of deceit?

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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,

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Against whom do ye sport{H6026} yourselves? against whom make ye a wide{H7337} mouth,{H6310} and put out{H748} the tongue?{H3956} are ye not children{H3206} of transgression,{H6588} a seed{H2233} of falsehood,{H8267}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Against whom do ye sport{H6026}{(H8691)} yourselves? against whom make ye a wide{H7337}{(H8686)} mouth{H6310}, and draw out{H748}{(H8686)} the tongue{H3956}? are ye not children{H3206} of transgression{H6588}, a seed{H2233} of falsehood{H8267},

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Wherin take ye youre pleasure? Vpo whom gape ye with yor mouth, & bleare out yor tonge? Are ye not childre of aduoutry, & a sede of dissimulaicon?

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    On whome haue ye iested? vpon whome haue ye gaped and thrust out your tongue? are not ye rebellious children, and a false seede?

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Wherin take ye your pleasure? vpon whom gape ye with your mouth, and bleare out your tongue? Are ye not children of transgression, and a seede of dissimulation?

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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,

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Against whom enlarge ye the mouth? Prolong ye the tongue? Are not ye children of transgression? a false seed?

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth, and stick out your tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    At whom are you laughing? At whom are you opening your mouth and sticking out your tongue? You are the children of rebels, the offspring of liars,

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 1:4 : 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they have gone away backward.
  • Ps 35:21 : 21 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.
  • Ps 69:12 : 12 Those who sit in the gate speak against me, and I was the song of the drunkards.
  • Exod 9:17 : 17 As yet you exalt yourself against my people, that you will not let them go?
  • Exod 16:7-8 : 7 And in the morning, you shall see the glory of the LORD; for he hears your complaints against the LORD: and what are we, that you complain against us? 8 And Moses said, This shall be when the LORD gives you meat to eat in the evening and bread to the full in the morning; for the LORD hears your complaints which you make against him: and what are we? Your complaints are not against us, but against the LORD.
  • Num 16:11 : 11 For this cause, both you and all your company are gathered together against the LORD: and what is Aaron, that you complain against him?
  • Josh 10:21 : 21 And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace. None moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
  • Judg 16:25-27 : 25 So it happened, when their hearts were merry, that they said, "Call for Samson, that he may perform for us." So they called for Samson from the prison, and he performed for them, and they stationed him between the pillars. 26 Then Samson said to the lad who held him by the hand, "Let me feel the pillars which support the temple, so that I can lean on them." 27 Now the temple was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there—about three thousand men and women on the roof, watching while Samson performed.
  • Job 16:9-9 : 9 He tears me in his wrath, who hates me; he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes upon me. 10 They gape upon me with their mouth; they strike me on the cheek reproachfully; they gather themselves together against me.
  • Ps 22:7 : 7 All who see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
  • Ps 22:13 : 13 They gaped at me with their mouths, like a ravening and roaring lion.
  • Ps 22:17 : 17 I can count all my bones; they look and stare at me.
  • Isa 10:15 : 15 Shall the ax boast against him who cuts with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against him who shakes it? As if the rod should shake itself against those who lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were not wood.
  • Isa 30:1 : 1 Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, that seek counsel, but not from me; and that make a covering, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
  • Isa 30:9 : 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the LORD:
  • Isa 37:23 : 23 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 37:29 : 29 Because your rage against me and your tumult have come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
  • Lam 2:15-16 : 15 All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and shake their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? 16 All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly, this is the day we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
  • Ezek 2:4 : 4 For they are impudent children and hardhearted. I do send you to them; and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD.
  • Hos 10:9 : 9 O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.
  • Matt 13:38 : 38 The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one,
  • Matt 27:29 : 29 And when they had twisted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand. And they bowed the knee before him and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
  • Matt 27:39-44 : 39 And they that passed by reviled him, shaking their heads, 40 And saying, You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself. If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross. 41 Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, 42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. 43 He trusted in God; let him deliver him now if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God. 44 The thieves also, who were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.
  • Luke 10:16 : 16 He who hears you hears me; and he who despises you despises me; and he who despises me despises him who sent me.
  • Acts 9:4 : 4 And he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?
  • Eph 2:2-3 : 2 In which in times past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had our conduct in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
  • Eph 5:6 : 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words: for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.
  • Col 3:6 : 6 For which things' sake, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
  • 2 Pet 2:13 : 13 And will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, reveling in their own deceptions while they banquet with you;

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

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    19 You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

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  • 3 And they bend their tongues like a bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.

  • 12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride, and for the cursing and lying which they speak.

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    2 Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

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    5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

    6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.

  • 7 Behold, they belch out with their mouths; swords are in their lips, for who, they say, hears?

  • 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they have gone away backward.

  • 7 How shall I pardon you for this? Your 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.

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    29 Why will you plead with me? you all have transgressed against me, says the LORD.

    30 In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

  • 8 Behold, you trust in deceptive words that cannot profit.

  • 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

  • 14 Behold, he travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

  • 7 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now a month shall devour them with their portions.

  • 7 Will you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

  • 8 Whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  • 2 Your tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

  • 4 You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue.

  • 4 Why do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? Who trusted in her treasures, saying, Who will come against me?

  • 9 The look on their faces testifies against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • 4 A wicked doer listens to false lips, and a liar gives ear to a deceitful tongue.

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

  • 19 So is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, Am I not joking?

  • 16 But to the wicked God says, What right do you have to declare My statutes, or to take My covenant in your mouth?

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    13 'Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of vipers is under their lips.'

    14 'Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.'

  • 2 They speak vanity everyone with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

  • 4 How long shall they utter and speak arrogant things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

  • 13 Your words have been harsh against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'.

  • 27 For was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For whenever you spoke of him, you skipped for joy.

  • 13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

  • 2 What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge’?

  • 27 Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.

  • 2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me; they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.