Isaiah 1

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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.49 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 26:1 – 2 Chronicles 32:33, 2 Kings 18:1 – 2 Kings 20:21, Psalms 89:19, Numbers 24:16, Isaiah 2:1
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.66 cross-references: Deuteronomy 32:1, Deuteronomy 30:19, Micah 1:2, Deuteronomy 4:26, Psalms 50:4
3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.42 cross-references: Jeremiah 8:7, Jeremiah 4:22, Isaiah 44:18, Matthew 13:13–15, Isaiah 5:12
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.81 cross-references: Isaiah 5:24, Jeremiah 2:17, Jeremiah 2:13, Romans 8:7, Acts 7:51–52
5Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.65 cross-references: Daniel 9:8–11, Ezekiel 24:13, Revelation 16:8–11, Isaiah 31:6, Jeremiah 5:3
6From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.29 cross-references: Jeremiah 6:14, Jeremiah 33:6, Matthew 9:12, Malachi 4:2, Jeremiah 8:21–22
7Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.47 cross-references: Deuteronomy 28:33, Deuteronomy 28:43, Lamentations 5:2, Hosea 7:9, Ezekiel 30:12
8And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.26 cross-references: Zechariah 9:9, John 12:15, Zechariah 2:10, Isaiah 62:11, Isaiah 10:32
9Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.72 cross-references: Romans 9:29, Isaiah 37:31–32, Genesis 19:24, Lamentations 3:22, Isaiah 17:6
10Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.57 cross-references: Revelation 11:8, Ezekiel 16:49, Amos 9:7, Isaiah 3:9, Deuteronomy 32:32
11To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.60 cross-references: Amos 5:21, 1 Samuel 15:22, Jeremiah 6:20, Isaiah 66:3, Micah 6:7
12When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?12 cross-references: Exodus 34:23, Exodus 23:17, Deuteronomy 16:16, Micah 6:8, Isaiah 58:1–2
13Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.36 cross-references: Isaiah 66:3, Malachi 1:10, Ezekiel 20:39, Matthew 15:9, Lamentations 2:6
14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.13 cross-references: Amos 5:21, Isaiah 43:24, Isaiah 7:13, Amos 2:13, Isaiah 61:8
15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.87 cross-references: Micah 3:4, Proverbs 1:28, Isaiah 59:2–3, Zechariah 7:13, Jeremiah 7:8–10
16Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;78 cross-references: 1 Peter 3:11, Isaiah 55:6–7, 1 Peter 2:1, 2 Corinthians 7:1, James 4:8
17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.32 cross-references: Jeremiah 22:3, Micah 6:8, Psalms 82:3–4, Proverbs 31:9, Isaiah 1:23
18Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.63 cross-references: Isaiah 44:22, Revelation 7:14, Psalms 51:7, Isaiah 43:24–26, Micah 7:18–19
19If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:36 cross-references: Deuteronomy 30:15–16, Isaiah 3:10, Joel 2:26, Hebrews 5:9, Isaiah 55:6–7
20But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.36 cross-references: Isaiah 65:12, Isaiah 58:14, Isaiah 40:5, Numbers 23:19, Isaiah 3:25
21How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.48 cross-references: Ezekiel 22:1–23, Zephaniah 3:1–3, Zechariah 8:3, Psalms 48:1, Micah 3:2–3
22Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:9 cross-references: Hosea 4:18, Jeremiah 6:28–30, Ezekiel 22:18–22, Lamentations 4:1–2, 2 Corinthians 2:17
23Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.72 cross-references: Micah 7:3, Exodus 23:8, Zechariah 7:10, Acts 4:5–11, Luke 18:2–5
24Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:41 cross-references: Isaiah 60:16, Isaiah 35:4, Deuteronomy 28:63, Isaiah 61:2, Isaiah 49:26
25And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:32 cross-references: Malachi 3:3, Isaiah 4:4, Isaiah 1:22, Jeremiah 9:7, Zephaniah 3:11
26And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.42 cross-references: Zechariah 8:3, Jeremiah 33:7, Isaiah 62:1–2, Zephaniah 3:13, Isaiah 60:17–18
27Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.16 cross-references: Isaiah 63:4, Isaiah 5:16, Isaiah 45:21–25, Isaiah 62:12, 2 Corinthians 5:21
28And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.36 cross-references: Psalms 1:6, 2 Thessalonians 1:8–9, Isaiah 30:13, Revelation 21:8, Job 31:3
29For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.28 cross-references: Isaiah 57:5, Isaiah 66:17, Isaiah 65:3, Ezekiel 16:63, Hosea 4:13
30For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.11 cross-references: Jeremiah 17:5–6, Jeremiah 31:12, Isaiah 58:11, Ezekiel 17:24, Isaiah 5:6
31And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.37 cross-references: Isaiah 66:24, Malachi 4:1, Ezekiel 32:21, Matthew 3:10, Isaiah 9:19

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Unless the Lord had left us a seed Isaiah 1:9 and Romans 9:29
Isaiah says that without a surviving remnant Judah would have been wiped out like Sodom. Paul cites it to show the remnant is itself an act of God's mercy.
Scarlet made white Isaiah 1:18 and Revelation 7:14
Isaiah invites Judah: though your sins are like scarlet they shall be white as snow. Revelation's multitude have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb — red making white.

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