Isaías 1:4

Sagradas Escrituras

¡Oh gente pecadora, pueblo cargado de maldad, generación de malignos, hijos corruptos! Dejaron al SEÑOR, provocaron a ira al Santo de Israel; se tornaron atrás.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
¡Ay, nación pecadora, pueblo cargado de iniquidad, generación de malvados, hijos corrompidos! Han abandonado al Señor , han despreciado al Santo de Israel, se han apartado de El.

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Oh gente pecadora, pueblo cargado de maldad, generación de malignos, hijos depravados! Dejaron á Jehová, provocaron á ira al Santo de Israel, tornáronse atrás.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
¡Oh gente pecadora, pueblo cargado de maldad, generación de malignos, hijos depravados! Dejaron a Jehová, provocaron a ira al Santo de Israel, se tornaron atrás.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ah sinful: Isaiah 1:23, Isaiah 10:6, Isaiah 30:9, Genesis 13:13, Matthew 11:28, Acts 7:51, Acts 7:52, Revelation 18:5

laden with iniquity: Heb. of heaviness

a seed: Isaiah 57:3, Isaiah 57:4, Numbers 32:14, Psalms 78:8, Jeremiah 7:26, Jeremiah 16:11, Jeremiah 16:12, Matthew 3:7, Matthew 23:33

children: Jeremiah 2:33, Ezekiel 16:33

forsaken: Deuteronomy 29:25, Deuteronomy 31:16, Judges 10:10, Jeremiah 2:13, Jeremiah 2:17, Jeremiah 2:19

provoked: Isaiah 3:8, Isaiah 65:3, Deuteronomy 32:19, Psalms 78:40, Jeremiah 7:19, 1 Corinthians 10:22

the Holy: Isaiah 5:19, Isaiah 5:24, Isaiah 12:6, Isaiah 29:19, Isaiah 30:11, Isaiah 30:12, Isaiah 30:15, Isaiah 37:23, Isaiah 41:14, Isaiah 41:16, Isaiah 41:20, Psalms 89:18, Jeremiah 50:29, Jeremiah 51:5

gone away backward: Heb. alienated, or separated, Psalms 58:3, Jeremiah 2:5, Jeremiah 2:31, Romans 8:7, Colossians 1:24

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 31:29 - corrupt yourselves Deuteronomy 32:5 - They have corrupted themselves Deuteronomy 32:15 - then he Joshua 23:12 - go back 1 Kings 15:34 - walked 1 Kings 19:14 - forsaken 2 Kings 2:23 - little children Psalms 14:1 - They are Isaiah 3:5 - child Isaiah 31:6 - deeply Isaiah 59:12 - our transgressions Jeremiah 6:28 - corrupters Jeremiah 7:28 - nor Jeremiah 8:19 - Why Jeremiah 15:6 - thou art Jeremiah 30:15 - for the Jeremiah 32:32 - they Ezekiel 9:9 - The iniquity Ezekiel 14:5 - estranged Ezekiel 16:45 - that loatheth Daniel 9:11 - all Zephaniah 1:6 - turned Zephaniah 2:1 - O nation Luke 15:13 - and took 2 Timothy 3:6 - laden

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ah sinful nation,..... Or "sinning nation" y; that was continually sinning, doing nothing else but sin, the reverse of what they were chosen to be, Deuteronomy 7:6. These words are said, either as calling and crying to them, to cause them to hear and hearken to what is said, as Aben Ezra and Kimchi observe, and as הוי is used in

Isaiah 55:1 or by way of complaint and lamentation, as Jarchi thinks, because of their general and continued wickedness, see

1 Kings 13:30, or by way of threatening, as in Isaiah 1:24 and so the Targum paraphrases it,

"woe to them who are called a holy people, and have sinned:''

and so the Vulgate Latin and Arabic versions render it, "woe to the sinning nation"; their ruin is at hand:

a people laden with iniquity; full of sin; they multiplied offences, as in the Chaldee paraphrase: they were "heavy" with them, as the word z signifies, yet felt not, nor complained of, the burden of them:

a seed of evil doers; this is not said of their fathers, but of themselves, as Jarchi observes; they had been planted a right seed, but now were degenerate, a wicked generation of men.

Children that are corrupters; of themselves and others, by their words and actions; who had corrupted their ways, as the Targum adds; and so Kimchi and Aben Ezra.

They have forsaken the Lord; the worship of the Lord, as the Targum interprets it; the ways and ordinances of God, forsook the assembling of themselves together, neglected the hearing of the word, and attendance on the worship of the Lord's house:

they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger; by their numerous sins, both of omission and commission:

they are gone away backward; were become backsliders and revolters, had apostatized from God and his worship, turned their backs on him, and cast his law behind them. The characters here given not only agree with the Jews in the times of Isaiah, but also with those in the times of Christ and his apostles, Matthew 12:39.

y גוי חטא "gens peccatrix", Sept. V. L. Syr. Ar. z כבד עין "gravi iniquitate", V. L.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ah! sinful nation - The word rendered ‘ah!’ - הוי hôy - is not a mere exclamation, expressing astonishment. It is rather an interjection denouncing threatening, or punishment. ‘Wo to the sinful nation.’ Vulgate, ‘Vae genti peccatrici.’ The corruption pertained to the nation, and not merely to a part. It had become general.

Laden with iniquity - The word translated “laden” - כבד kebed - denotes properly anything “heavy,” or burdensome; from כבד kâbad, “to be heavy.” It means that they were oppressed, and borne down with the “weight” of their sins. Thus we say, Sin sits “heavy” on the conscience. Thus Cain said, ‘My punishment is greater than I can bear;’ Genesis 4:13. The word is applied to an “employment” as being burdensome; Exodus 18:18 : ‘This thing is too “heavy” for thee.’ Numbers 11:14 : ‘I am not able to bear eli this people alone; it is too “heavy” for me.’ It is applied also to a “famine,” as being heavy, severe, distressing. Genesis 12:10 : ‘For the famine was “grievous” (כבד kâb^ed, heavy) in the land;’ Genesis 41:31. It is also applied to “speech,” as being heavy, dull, unintelligible. Exodus 4:10 : ‘I am slow (heavy כבד k^ebad) of speech, and of a slow (heavy כבד k^ebad) tongue.’ It is not applied to sin in the Scriptures, except in this place, or except in the sense of making atonement for it. The idea however, is very striking - that of a nation - an entire people, bowed and crushed under the enormous weight of accumulated crimes. To pardon iniquity, or to atone for it, is represented by bearing it, as if it were a heavy burden. Exodus 28:38, Exodus 28:43, ‘That Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things.’ Leviticus 10:17 : ‘God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation.’ Leviticus 22:9; Leviticus 16:22; Numbers 18:1; Isaiah 53:6 : ‘Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.’ Isaiah 53:11 : ‘He shall bear their iniquities.’ 1 Peter 2:24 : ‘Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree.’

A seed - זרע zera‛, from זרע zâra‛, to sow, to scatter, to disperse. It is applied to seed sown in a field; Judges 6:3; Genesis 1:11-12; Genesis 47:23; to plants set out, or engrafted; or to planting, or transplanting a nation. Isaiah 17:10 : ‘And thou shalt set it (תזרענוּ tiz^erâ‛enû shalt sow, or plant it) with strange slips.’ Hence, it is applied to children, posterity, descendants, from the resemblance to seed sown, and to a harvest springing up, and spreading. The word is applied by way of eminence to the Jews, as being the seed or posterity of Abraham, according to the promise that his seed should be as the stars of heaven; Genesis 12:7; Genesis 13:15-16; Genesis 15:5, Genesis 15:18; Genesis 17:7, ...

Children - Hebrew sons - the same word that is used in Isaiah 1:2. They were the adopted people or sons of God, but they had now become corrupt.

That are corrupters - mashchiytiym - משׁחיתים mash^echı̂ythı̂ym, from שׁחת shachath, to destroy, to lay waste, as an invading army does a city or country; Joshua 22:33; Genesis 19:13. To destroy a vineyard; Jeremiah 12:10. To break down walls; Ezekiel 26:4. Applied to conduct, it means to destroy, or lay waste virtuous principles; to break down the barriers to vice; to corrupt the morals. Genesis 6:12 : ‘And God looked upon the earth, and it was corrupt - נשׁחתה nı̂sh^echâthâh; for all flesh had corrupted his way - השׁחית hı̂sh^echı̂yth - upon the earth;’ Deuteronomy 4:16; Deuteronomy 31:29; Judges 2:19. They were not merely corrupt themselves, but they corrupted others by their example. This is always the case. When people become infidels and profligates themselves, they seek to make as many more as possible. The Jews did this by their wicked lives. The same charge is often brought against them; see Judges 2:12; Zephaniah 3:7.

They have provoked - Hebrew נאצוּ nı̂'ătsû ‘They have despised the Holy One;’ compare Proverbs 1:30; Proverbs 5:12; Proverbs 15:5. Vulgate, ‘They have blasphemed.’ Septuagint, παρωργίσατε parōrgisate. ‘You have provoked him to anger.’ The meaning is, that they had so despised him, as to excite his indignation.

The Holy One of Israel - God; called the Holy One of Israel because he was revealed to them as their God, or they were taught to regard him as the sacred object of their worship.

They are gone away backward - Lowth: ‘They have turned their backs upon him.’ The word rendered “they are gone away,” נזרוּ nâzorû, from זור zûr, means properly, to become estranged; to be alienated. Job 19:13 : ‘Mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.’ It means especially that declining from God, or that alienation, which takes place when people commit sin; Psalms 78:30.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 1:4. 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, Proverbs 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, 68.

They are gone away backward - "They have turned their backs upon him."] So Kimchi explains it: "they have turned unto him the back and not the face." See Jeremiah 2:27; Jeremiah 7:24. I have been forced to render this line paraphrastically; as the verbal translation, "they are estranged backward," would have been unintelligible.