Isaiah 30:9

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“These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.”

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BSBPD

“These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord:”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“That a rebellious people <FI>is<Fi> this, sons--liars, Sons not willing to hear the law of Jehovah.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 30:9 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 31:27For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!
  2. Deuteronomy 32:20He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation— children of unfaithfulness.
  3. 2 Chronicles 33:10And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they did not listen.
  4. 2 Chronicles 36:15Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.
  5. Nehemiah 9:29You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They stubbornly shrugged their shoulders; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.
  6. Psalms 81:12So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
  7. Proverbs 28:9Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.
  8. Isaiah 1:4Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
  9. Isaiah 1:10Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
  10. Isaiah 5:24Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
  11. Isaiah 10:5Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
  12. Isaiah 10:6I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
  13. Isaiah 28:15For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
  14. Isaiah 30:1“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.
  15. Isaiah 48:4For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
  16. Isaiah 59:3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
  17. Isaiah 63:8For He said, “They are surely My people, sons who will not be disloyal.” So He became their Savior.
  18. Jeremiah 7:13And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,
  19. Jeremiah 7:28Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.
  20. Jeremiah 9:3“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
  21. Jeremiah 44:2“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster that I brought against Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah; and behold, they lie today in ruins and desolation
  22. Hosea 4:2Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
  23. Zephaniah 3:2She heeded no voice; she accepted no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she has not drawn near to her God.
  24. Zechariah 1:4Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.

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