Isaiah's vision opens against Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. Jehovah summons heavens and earth as witnesses: the ox knows its owner, but Israel does not know its God. The nation is sick from head to foot, its land desolate and cities burned; only a remnant keeps it from becoming Sodom and Gomorrah. Jehovah rejects its sacrifices, feasts, and blood-stained prayers, demanding instead justice for the oppressed, the fatherless, and the widow. He extends the summons "Come now, and let us reason together": scarlet sins made white as snow. The faithful city has become a harlot, her princes companions of thieves; Jehovah will purge her dross, restore her judges, and redeem Zion with justice, while transgressors burn with none to quench.

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

Prophecy · Isaiah — Isaiah overview

A. 1–9 A Sinful Nation and a Land Left Desolate
B. 10–15 Your Appointed Feasts My Soul Hates
C. 16–20 Come Now, Let Us Reason Together
D. 21–31 The Faithful City Become a Harlot

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Jeremiah 63 verses
- Jeremiah 6:14They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
- Jeremiah 6:20To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
- Jeremiah 6:28They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
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Deuteronomy 283 verses
- Deuteronomy 28:33The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
- Deuteronomy 28:43The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
- Deuteronomy 28:63And it shall come to pass, that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.
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Isaiah 663 verses
- Isaiah 66:3He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
- Isaiah 66:17They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.
- Isaiah 66:24And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
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Deuteronomy 322 verses
- Deuteronomy 32:1Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
- Deuteronomy 32:32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
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Deuteronomy 302 verses
- Deuteronomy 30:15See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
- Deuteronomy 30:19I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
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Isaiah 442 verses
- Isaiah 44:18They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
- Isaiah 44:22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
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Jeremiah 22 verses
- Jeremiah 2:13For 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.
- Jeremiah 2:17Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?
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Jeremiah 332 verses
- Jeremiah 33:6Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
- Jeremiah 33:7And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
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