Isaiah 1:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴Ah 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.

Isaiah 1:4 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 5:24
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah 2:17
Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
Jeremiah 2:13
For 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.
Romans 8:7
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Acts 7:51-52
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 2-9)

We will hope to meet with a brighter and more pleasant scene before we come to the end of this book; but truly here, in the beginning of it, every thing looks very bad, very black, with Judah and Jerusalem. What is the wilderness of the world, if the church, the vineyard, has such a dismal aspect as this? I. The prophet, though he speaks in God’s name, yet, despairing to gain audience with the chi…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. people--the peculiar designation of God’s elect nation (Ho 1:10), that they should be “laden with iniquity” is therefore the more monstrous. Sin is a load (Psa 38:4; Mt 11:28). seed--another appellation of God’s elect (Ge 12:7; Jr 2:21), designed to be a “holy seed” (Is 6:13), but, awful to say, “evildoers!” children--by adoption (Ho 11:1), yet “evildoers”; not only so, but “corrupters” of othe…