Isaiah 1:4 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 1:4

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

BSB

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Verse 4) Woe to the sinful nation, a people burdened with iniquity, a wicked offspring, wicked children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they have turned away backwards. The phrase I placed last, 'they have turned away backwards,' is not found in the Septuagint and instead of 'they have blasphemed,' it is written in them, 'they have provoked to anger.'

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Ah sinful nation “Degenerate” - Five MSS., one of them ancient, read משחתים moschathim, without the first י yod, in hophal corrupted, not corrupters. See the same word in the same form, and in the same sense, Pro 25:26. Are corrupters “Are estranged” - Thirty-two MSS., five ancient, and two editions, read נזורו nazoru; which reading determines the word to be from the root זור zur, to alienate, not from נזר nazar, to separate; so Kimchi understands it. See also Annotat. in Noldium,

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

So "nation--people--seed children." provoked--literally, "despised," namely, so as to provoke (Pr 1:30, 31). Holy One of Israel--the peculiar heinousness of their sin, that it was against their God (Am 3:2). gone . . . backward--literally, "estranged" (Ps 58:3).

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ה֣וֹי׀	Ho	woe to!	H1945 →
גּ֣וֹי	Goy	a nation	H1471 →
חֹטֵ֗א	cho.Te'	[which] sins	H2398 →
עַ֚ם	'am	a people	H5971 →
כֶּ֣בֶד	Ke.ved	heavy of	H3515 →
עָוֹ֔ן	'a.Von	iniquity of	H5771 →
זֶ֣רַע	Ze.ra'	spring	H2233 →
מְרֵעִ֔ים	me.re.'Im	[who] do evil	H7489 →
בָּנִ֖ים	ba.Nim	children	H1121 →
מַשְׁחִיתִ֑ים	mash.chi.Tim	[who] behave corruptly	H7843 →
עָזְב֣וּ	'a.ze.Vu	they have forsaken	H5800 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
יְהוָ֗ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
נִֽאֲצ֛וּ	ni.'a.Tzu	they have spurned	H5006 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
קְד֥וֹשׁ	ke.Do.osh	[the] holy [one] of	H6918 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
נָזֹ֥רוּ	na.Zo.ru	they have become estranged	H2114 →
אָחֽוֹר׃	'a.Chor	back part	H268 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 2:13
“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.
leads to
- John 4:14
  But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
- John 7:37
  On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
- Revelation 21:6
  And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.
- Jeremiah 17:13
  O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of…
- Psalms 36:9
  For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.
Through
Romans 8:7
because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 2:14
  The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- 1 John 2:15–16
  Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
- James 4:4
  You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.