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The Worthless Treaty with Egypt

Isaiah 30:9

In 11 translations

BSB
These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
KJV
That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
WEB
For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;
ASV
For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;
LSV
That this [is] a people of rebellion, sons—liars, || Sons not willing to hear the Law of YHWH.
YLT
That a rebellious people [is] this, sons — liars, Sons not willing to hear the law of Jehovah.
DBY
that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;
DRC
For it is a people that provoketh to wrath, and lying children, children that will not hear the law of God.
GNV
That it is a rebellious people, lying children, and children that would not heare the law of the Lord.
JPS
For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that refuse to hear the teaching of the LORD;
LXXE
For the people is disobedient, false children, who would not hear the law of God:

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Original-language editions

WLC
כִּ֣י עַ֤ם מְרִי֙ ה֔וּא בָּנִ֖ים כֶּחָשִׁ֑ים בָּנִ֕ים לֹֽא־אָב֥וּ שְׁמ֖וֹעַ תּוֹרַ֥ת יְהוָֽה׃
LXX-Br
Ὅτι ὁ λαὸς ἀπειθής ἐστιν, υἱοὶ ψευδεῖς, οἳ οὐκ ἠβούλοντο ἀκούειν τὸν νόμον τοῦ Θεοῦ·

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  • 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.
  • Acts 7:51You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
  • Revelation 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
  • Zechariah 1:4–6Do 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.…
  • 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.
  • Proverbs 28:9Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.
  • Zechariah 7:11–12But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing. They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had…
  • 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.
  • Nehemiah 9:29–30You 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…
  • Isaiah 63:8For He said, “They are surely My people, sons who will not be disloyal.” So He became their Savior.
  • 2 Chronicles 33:10And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they did not listen.
  • Revelation 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
  • 2 Chronicles 36:15–16Again 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. But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words…
  • 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…
  • 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.
  • 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.

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