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Isaiah 1:2 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 1 · verse 2
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.Isaiah 1:2 · King James Version
Isaiah 1:2 in context
1The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
2Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
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.
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Key words (Strong's)
- nourishedgâdalto be largeH1431 →
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- heavensshâmayimthe sky (as aloftH8064 →
- spokendâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
- earthʼeretsthe earthH776 →
- Hearshâmaʻto hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etcH8085 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 2-9