Isaiah 1:2

God summons heaven and earth as witnesses against His people, who have rebelled against the Father who lovingly raised them. It exposes the deep ingratitude of sin.

Cross-references · 29

• Deut 32:1Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
• Deut 30:19I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants;
• Mic 1:2Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
• Deut 4:26I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.
• Ps 50:4He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:
• Mic 6:1–2Listen now to what Yahweh says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say.
• Mal 1:6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
• Ezek 36:4therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around;
• Mic 3:8But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.
• Jer 6:19Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
• Isa 63:9–10In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
• Isa 30:1“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
• Amos 3:1Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:
• Isa 46:3–4“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb.
• Isa 65:2I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
• Isa 30:9For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;
• Ezek 16:6–14“‘“When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’ Yes, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’
• Jer 13:15Hear, and give ear. Don’t be proud; for Yahweh has spoken.
• Isa 5:1–2Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
• Deut 4:7–8For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
• Deut 9:22–24At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.
• Jer 31:9They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
• Deut 1:31and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that Yahweh your God bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”
• Ezek 20:5–32and tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “In the day when I chose Israel, and swore to the offspring of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, ‘I am Yahweh your God;’
• Jer 2:5–13Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?
• Acts 4:20for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”
• Rom 9:4–5who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
• Jer 22:29O earth, earth, earth, hear Yahweh’s word!
• Rom 3:1–2Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

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