Isaiah 57:4

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,

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  • Isa 1:4 : 4 Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
  • Ps 35:21 : 21 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!"
  • Ps 69:12 : 12 Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.
  • Exod 9:17 : 17 as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won't let them go.
  • Exod 16:7-8 : 7 and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of Yahweh; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against us?" 8 Moses said, "Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh."
  • Num 16:11 : 11 Therefore you and all your company are gathered together against Yahweh: and Aaron, what is he that you murmur against him?"
  • Josh 10:21 : 21 that 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 It happened, when their hearts were merry, that they said, "Call for Samson, that he may entertain us." They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars; 26 and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, "Allow me to feel the pillars whereupon the house rests, that I may lean on them." 27 Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed.
  • Job 16:9-9 : 9 He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me. 10 They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
  • Ps 22:7 : 7 All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
  • Ps 22:13 : 13 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.
  • Ps 22:17 : 17 I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.
  • Isa 10:15 : 15 Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.
  • Isa 30:1 : 1 "Woe to the rebellious children," says Yahweh, "who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
  • Isa 30:9 : 9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of Yahweh;
  • Isa 37:23 : 23 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 37:29 : 29 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore will I 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 that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? 16 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
  • Ezek 2:4 : 4 The children are impudent and stiff-hearted: I am sending you to them; and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Hos 10:9 : 9 "Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they remained. The battle against the children of iniquity doesn't overtake them in Gibeah.
  • Matt 13:38 : 38 the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.
  • Matt 27:29 : 29 They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"
  • Matt 27:39-44 : 39 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging 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 the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders, said, 42 "He saved others, but he can't save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him. 43 He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, 'I am the Son of God.'" 44 The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.
  • Luke 10:16 : 16 Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me."
  • Acts 9:4 : 4 He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"
  • Eph 2:2-3 : 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience; 3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
  • Eph 5:6 : 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on 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 receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

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  • 13 transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

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  • 12 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

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    10 Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

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    2 No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

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

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

  • 7 Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"

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

  • 7 "How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.

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    29 "Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me," says Yahweh.

    30 "I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

  • 8 Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit.

  • 7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

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

  • 7 They are unfaithful to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.

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

  • 8 whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  • 2 Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

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

  • 4 Why do you glory in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? who trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall come to me?

  • 9 The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

  • 4 An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

  • 5 They have dealt corruptly with him, [they are] not his children, [it is] their blemish. [They are] a perverse and crooked generation.

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

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    13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"

    14 "whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."

  • 2 Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

  • 4 They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

  • 13 "Your words have been stout against me," says Yahweh. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'

  • 27 For wasn't Israel a derision to you? was he found among thieves? for as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.

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

  • 2 What do you mean, that you use 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 would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

  • 2 for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.