Isaiah 57:4

Translations

Modern

Whom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit,

Traditional

Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

Literal

Against whom are you mocking? Against whom do you make wide the mouth and stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, seed of deception—

Latin

Super quem lusistis? super quem dilatastis os, et ejecistis linguam? Numquid non vos filii scelesti, semen mendax,

Original

Hebrew

English

Whom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit,

Notes

Isaiah 57:4

mocking … stick out your tongue: The wicked oppressed the righteous by their insults (Isaiah 57:1–2; see also 28:9, 14).

Isaiah 56:9–57:13

This passage reflects on how common evil had become among God’s people. Many of them were greedy and wanted more and more for themselves (Isaiah 56:9–12). They treated righteous people with hatred and violence (Isaiah 57:1–2). They also worshiped idols instead of the true God (Isaiah 57:3–13).

Theme notes and profiles

Isaiah God’s Servant Salvation in Isaiah

Events

Prophecies of Isaiahc. 759 BC

Related verses

2 Peter 2:13
The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.
Isaiah 1:4
Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
Psalm 35:21
They gape at me and say, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!”
Exodus 9:17
Still, you lord it over My people and do not allow them to go.
Psalm 69:12
Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.
Job 16:9–10
His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
Matthew 27:29
And they twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on His head. They put a staff in His right hand, knelt down before Him, and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
Lamentations 2:15–16
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
Numbers 16:11
Therefore, it is you and all your followers who have conspired against the LORD! As for Aaron, who is he that you should grumble against him?”
Acts 9:4
He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?”
Luke 10:16
Whoever listens to you listens to Me; whoever rejects you rejects Me; and whoever rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”

Glossary

Isaiah, Book of New Creation, New Creature

Topics

Adultery: General Scriptures Concerning Idolatry: Warnings Against, and Punishments of Infidelity: General Scriptures Concerning Lying: Hypocrites, a Seed of Scoffing: General Scriptures Concerning Scorning and Mocking: Idolaters Addicted To Titles and Names of the Wicked: Children of Transgression Titles and Names of the Wicked: Seed of Falsehood

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