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Isaiah 1:3–4

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The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Ah 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.
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From verse 3

  1. Jeremiah 8:7Rank 1 from verse 3
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    7Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.

  2. Jeremiah 4:22Rank 2 from verse 3
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    22For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  3. Isaiah 44:18Rank 3 from verse 3
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    18They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

  4. Isaiah 5:12Rank 4 from verse 3
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    12And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.

  5. Matthew 13:13–15Rank 5 from verse 3
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    13Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

    14And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:

    15For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

  6. Psalms 94:8Rank 6 from verse 3
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    8Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

  7. Romans 1:28Rank 7 from verse 3
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    28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

  8. Isaiah 27:11Rank 8 from verse 3
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    11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

  9. 2 Peter 3:5Rank 9 from verse 3
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    5For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

  10. Deuteronomy 32:28–29Rank 10 from verse 3
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    28For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

    29O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

  11. Proverbs 6:6Rank 11 from verse 3
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    6¶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

  12. Jeremiah 9:3–6Rank 12 from verse 3
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    3And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord.

    4Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

    5And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

    6Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.

  13. Jeremiah 10:14Rank 13 from verse 3
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    14Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

  14. Jeremiah 10:8Rank 14 from verse 3
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    8But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

  15. Matthew 13:19Rank 15 from verse 3
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    19When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

From verse 4

  1. Isaiah 5:24Rank 1 from verse 4
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    24Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

  2. Jeremiah 2:17Rank 2 from verse 4
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    17Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?

  3. Jeremiah 2:13Rank 3 from verse 4
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    13For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

  4. Romans 8:7Rank 4 from verse 4
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    7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

  5. Acts 7:51–52Rank 5 from verse 4
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    51¶ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

    52Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

  6. Isaiah 5:19Rank 6 from verse 4
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    19That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!

  7. Jeremiah 2:19Rank 7 from verse 4
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    19Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts.

  8. Jeremiah 7:19Rank 8 from verse 4
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    19Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

  9. Matthew 3:7Rank 9 from verse 4
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    7¶ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

  10. 1 Corinthians 10:22Rank 10 from verse 4
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    22Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

  11. Colossians 1:24Rank 11 from verse 4
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    24Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:

  12. Deuteronomy 29:25Rank 12 from verse 4
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    25Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:

  13. Deuteronomy 31:16Rank 13 from verse 4
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    16¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

  14. Deuteronomy 32:19Rank 14 from verse 4
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    19And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

  15. Ezekiel 16:33Rank 15 from verse 4
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    33They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.

  16. Genesis 13:13Rank 16 from verse 4
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    13But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.

  17. Isaiah 1:23Rank 17 from verse 4
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    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.

  18. Isaiah 10:6Rank 18 from verse 4
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    6I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

  19. Isaiah 14:20Rank 19 from verse 4
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    20Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.

  20. Isaiah 29:19Rank 20 from verse 4
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    19The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

  21. Isaiah 3:8Rank 21 from verse 4
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    8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

  22. Isaiah 30:11–12Rank 22 from verse 4
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    11Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

    12Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:

  23. Isaiah 30:15Rank 23 from verse 4
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    15For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

  24. Isaiah 30:9Rank 24 from verse 4
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    9That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord:

  25. Isaiah 37:23Rank 25 from verse 4
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    23Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

  26. Isaiah 41:14Rank 26 from verse 4
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    14Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

  27. Isaiah 41:16Rank 27 from verse 4
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    16Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.

  28. Isaiah 41:20Rank 28 from verse 4
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    20That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.

  29. Isaiah 57:3–4Rank 29 from verse 4
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    3¶ But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.

    4Against 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,

  30. Isaiah 65:3Rank 30 from verse 4
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    3A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;

  31. Jeremiah 16:11–12Rank 31 from verse 4
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    11Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the Lord, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

    12And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:

  32. Jeremiah 2:31Rank 32 from verse 4
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    31¶ O generation, see ye the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

  33. Jeremiah 2:33Rank 33 from verse 4
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    33Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

  34. Jeremiah 2:5Rank 34 from verse 4
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    5¶ Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

  35. Jeremiah 50:29Rank 35 from verse 4
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    29Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.

  36. Jeremiah 51:5Rank 36 from verse 4
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    5For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the Lord of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

  37. Jeremiah 7:26Rank 37 from verse 4
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    26Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

  38. Judges 10:10Rank 38 from verse 4
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    10¶ And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.

  39. Matthew 11:28Rank 39 from verse 4
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    28¶ Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

  40. Matthew 23:33Rank 40 from verse 4
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    33Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

  41. Numbers 32:14Rank 41 from verse 4
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    14And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the Lord toward Israel.

  42. Psalms 58:3Rank 42 from verse 4
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    3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

  43. Psalms 78:40Rank 43 from verse 4
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    40How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

  44. Psalms 78:8Rank 44 from verse 4
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    8And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

  45. Psalms 89:18Rank 45 from verse 4
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    18For the Lord is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.

  46. Isaiah 12:6Rank 46 from verse 4
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    6Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

  47. Revelation 18:5Rank 47 from verse 4
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    5For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

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Isaiah 1:3

COMBINED MEANING

owner

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The person who rightfully possesses or holds title to an animal, object, land, or vessel.

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master

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One possessing authority, ownership, command, supervision, or superior skill: an owner, employer, household head, teacher, leader, ship commander, or lord.

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but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

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Israel

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The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called.

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know

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To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.

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people

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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.

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consider

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1. To think upon attentively; to examine or weigh. 2. To regard, observe, or take notice of.

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Isaiah 1:4

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sinful

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Tainted by, guilty of, or characterized by sin; wicked or contrary to God's law.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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people

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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.

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laden

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Loaded, burdened, weighed down, or carrying a heavy load.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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iniquity

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Wickedness, unrighteousness, transgression, or sin; the guilt or burden of such wrongdoing.

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seed

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Sense 1: The reproductive substance of a plant or creature, especially what is sown to produce after its kind. Sense 2: Offspring, descendants, or lineage. Sense 3: A beginning, source, or thing sown that produces a result.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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children

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Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.

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provoked

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of provoke, meaning to stir up or incite, whether to anger or to action.

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holy

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Sense 1: Morally pure, righteous, undefiled, and separate from evil; supremely so of God. Sense 2: Hallowed, consecrated, set apart, devoted, or belonging to God or sacred use; distinguished from what is common, profane, or unclean.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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Holy One

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A divine title used of the LORD and of Jesus Christ, often as the Holy One of Israel or the Holy One of God.

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Israel

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The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called.

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anger

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Sense 1: Strong displeasure or indignation. Sense 2: As a verb, to provoke to such displeasure.

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gone

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Departed, went away, passed, or advanced to another place or condition.

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backward

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Sense 1: Toward the back, with the back foremost, or in reverse. Sense 2: Figuratively, into defeat, decline, rebellion, or perverted judgment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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1:1THE 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.

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.

1:3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

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1:4Ah 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.

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