Isaiah 1:4
Old Testament • 20 words with Strong's data
"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."
Word-by-Word Analysis
חַטָּא
chaṭṭâʼ
a criminal, or one accounted guilty
גּוֹי
gôwy
a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
עַם
ʻam
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
נָשָׂא
nâsâʼ
to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
זֶרַע
zeraʻ
seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
רָעַע
râʻaʻ
properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good fornothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally)
בֵּן
bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...
English grammatical function word ('corrupters'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equival...
עָזַב
ʻâzab
to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
מָרָה
mârâh
to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke)
קֹדֶשׁ
qôdesh
a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity
אֶחָד
ʼechâd
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
יִשְׂרָאֵל
Yisrâʼêl
Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
אַף
ʼaph
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
הָלַךְ
hâlak
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
סוּר
çûwr
to turn off (literal or figurative)
אָחוֹר
ʼâchôwr
the hinder part; hence (adverb) behind, backward; also (as facing north) the West
Key Terms in This Verse
English grammatical function word ('corrupters'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivalent in the original Hebrew or Greek text; they are...
Study GRAM →נָשָׂא nâsâʼ
to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
Study H5375 →רָעַע râʻaʻ
properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good fornothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally)
Study H7489 →אָחוֹר ʼâchôwr
the hinder part; hence (adverb) behind, backward; also (as facing north) the West
Study H268 →מָרָה mârâh
to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke)
Study H4784 →גּוֹי gôwy
a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
Study H1471 →הָלַךְ hâlak
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
Study H1980 →Cross References
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 ...
Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
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.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear...
And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the street...
But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do...
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