Isaiah 1:5 Cross References - BBE

⁵ Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.

²² And in the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz did even more evil against the Lord.

³⁴ And our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or given attention to your orders and your witness, with which you gave witness against them.

²³ Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

¹³ But the heart of the people was not turned to him who sent punishment on them, and they made no prayer to the Lord of armies.

²¹ Manasseh was making a meal of Ephraim, and Ephraim of Manasseh; and together they were attacking Judah. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

⁶ Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.

²⁴ And the men of Zion will not say, I am ill: for its people will have forgiveness for their sin.

³⁰ I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

³ O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.

⁵ I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.

³¹ The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?

²⁸ All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit. ²⁹ The blower is blowing strongly, the lead is burned away in the fire: they go on heating the metal to no purpose, for the evil-doers are not taken away. ³⁰ They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.

³ Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.

¹³ As for your unclean purpose: because I have been attempting to make you clean, but you have not been made clean from it, you will not be made clean till I have let loose my passion on you in full measure.

⁸ O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you. ⁹ With the Lord our God are mercies and forgiveness, for we have gone against him; ¹⁰ And have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God to go in the way of his laws which he put before us by the mouth of his servants the prophets. ¹¹ And all Israel have been sinners against your law, turning away so as not to give ear to your voice: and the curse has been let loose on us, and the oath recorded in the law of Moses, the servant of God, for we have done evil against him.

¹ Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town! ² She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God. ³ Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning. ⁴ Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.

⁵ And you have not kept in mind the word which says to you as to sons, My son, do not make little of the Lord's punishment, and do not give up hope when you are judged by him; ⁶ For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod. ⁷ It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father? ⁸ But if you have not that punishment of which we all have our part, then you are not true sons, but children of shame.

⁸ And the fourth let what was in his vessel come out on the sun; and power was given to it that men might be burned with fire. ⁹ And men were burned with great heat: and they said evil things against the name of the God who has authority over these punishments; and they were not turned from their evil ways to give him glory. ¹⁰ And the fifth let what was in his vessel come out on the high seat of the beast; and his kingdom was made dark; and they were biting their tongues for pain. ¹¹ And they said evil things against the God of heaven because of their pain and their wounds; and they were not turned from their evil works.