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Lutheran reading notes
In Isaiah chapter 1, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of judgment, repentance, messianic hope, and restoration. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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The 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.
Isaiah 1:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hear, 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.
Isaiah 1:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Isaiah 1:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {laden: Heb. of heaviness} {gone...: Heb. alienated, or, separated}
Isaiah 1:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. {revolt...: Heb. increase revolt}
Isaiah 1:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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From the sole of the foot even unto the head {there is} no soundness in it; {but} wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. {ointment: or, oil}
Isaiah 1:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Your country {is} desolate, your cities {are} burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and {it is} desolate, as overthrown by strangers. {overthrown...: Heb. the overthrow of}
Isaiah 1:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Isaiah 1:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, {and} we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
Isaiah 1:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Isaiah 1:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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To what purpose {is} the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. {he goats: Heb. great he goats}
Isaiah 1:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? {to appear: Heb. to be seen}
Isaiah 1:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; {it is} iniquity, even the solemn meeting. {iniquity: or, grief}
Isaiah 1:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear {them}.
Isaiah 1:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. {make...: Heb. multiply prayer} {blood: Heb. bloods}
Isaiah 1:15 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Isaiah 1:16 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. {relieve: or, righten}
Isaiah 1:17 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isaiah 1:18 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
Isaiah 1:19 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken {it}.
Isaiah 1:20 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
Isaiah 1:21 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
Isaiah 1:22 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thy 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.
Isaiah 1:23 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
Isaiah 1:24 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: {purely: Heb. according to pureness}
Isaiah 1:25 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
Isaiah 1:26 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. {her...: or, they that return of her}
Isaiah 1:27 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners {shall be} together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed. {destruction: Heb. breaking}
Isaiah 1:28 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
Isaiah 1:29 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
Isaiah 1:30 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench {them}. {maker...: or, and his work}
Isaiah 1:31 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.