Isaiah 1:10

Meaningless Offerings · Isaiah 1:10–20
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Translations

Modern
Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
Traditional
Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Literal
Hear the word of YHWH, chiefs of Sodom; give ear to the Instruction of our God, people of Gomorrah!
Latin
Audite verbum Domini, principes Sodomorum; percipite auribus legem Dei nostri, populus Gomorrhæ.

Original

Hebrew
English
Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

Notes

  • Hear the word of the LORD: Here, listen means to obey the law (or teaching; Hebrew torah) of our God (see Isaiah 2:3; 5:24).

  • rulers … people: All levels of society were guilty.

  • Like Sodom and Gomorrah, Jerusalem faced divine judgment for rebelling against God’s laws. Jerusalem might have been completely destroyed like those cities if not for God’s grace (Isaiah 1:9; see Genesis 19).

Theme notes and profiles

Isaiah Salvation in Isaiah

Events

Places

Gomorrah: Wicked city destroyed by God along with Sodom Sodom: Wicked city destroyed by God for its sins

Glossary

Courts and Trials Isaiah (Person) Isaiah, Book of Sabbath Sodom and Gomorrah Wrath of God

Topics

Church: Backslidden Gomorrah: Destroyed National Sins: Defile: National Worship National Sins: National Worship Rejected on Account of Ordinance: Insufficiency of, for Salvation Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Sodom of Wickedness The Burnt offering of the Wicked, not Accepted by God The Ear: should be Given to the Law of God Wicked (People): Worship of, offensive to God