TSK · Isaiah 1:4

The LORD spoke to Moses:“Go quickly, descend, because your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly.

Then people will say,“Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

His people have been unfaithful to him; they have not acted like his children– this is their sin. They are a perverse and deceitful generation.

The Israelites cried out for help to the LORD:“We have sinned against you. We abandoned our God and worshiped the Baals.”

After Rehoboam’s rule was established and solidified, he and all Israel rejected the law of the LORD.

The wicked turn aside from birth; liars go astray as soon as they are born.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the wastelands!

They were unfaithful and acted as treacherously as their ancestors; they were as unreliable as a malfunctioning bow.

Your officials are rebels, they associate with thieves. All of them love bribery, and look for payoffs. They do not take up the cause of the orphan, or defend the rights of the widow.

They say,“Let him hurry, let him act quickly, so we can see; let the plan of the Holy One of Israel take shape and come to pass, then we will know it!”

I sent him against a godless nation, I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, to take plunder and to carry away loot, to trample them down like dirt in the streets.

You will not be buried with them, because you destroyed your land and killed your people. The offspring of the wicked will never be mentioned again.

Egypt Will Prove Unreliable“The rebellious children are as good as dead,” says the LORD,“those who make plans without consulting me, who form alliances without consulting my Spirit, and thereby compound their sin.

Turn aside from the way; stray off the path. Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel.”

Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at? At whom have you shouted and looked so arrogantly? At the Holy One of Israel!

You will winnow them and the wind will blow them away; the wind will scatter them. You will rejoice in the LORD; you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.

But approach, you sons of omen readers, you offspring of adulteresses and prostitutes!

These people continually and blatantly offend me as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards and burn incense on brick altars.

“Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: they have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water.”

Your own wickedness will bring about your punishment. Your unfaithful acts will bring down discipline on you. Know, then, and realize how utterly harmful it was for you to reject me, the LORD your God, to show no respect for me,” says the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

“My, how good you have become at chasing after your lovers! Why, you could even teach prostitutes a thing or two!

But your ancestors did not listen to me nor pay attention to me. They became obstinate and were more wicked than even their own forefathers.’”

“Call for archers to come against Babylon! Summon against her all who draw the bow! Set up camp all around the city! Do not allow anyone to escape! Pay her back for what she has done. Do to her what she has done to others. For she has proudly defied me, the Holy One of Israel.

I will do this in order to capture the hearts of the house of Israel, who have alienated themselves from me on account of all their idols.’

and those who turn their backs on the LORD and do not want the LORD’s help or guidance.”

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

“You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!

Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?

because her sins have piled up all the way to heaven and God has remembered her crimes.