Isa 1:4 | JFB | STEP | 4. people —the peculiar designation of God's elect nation ( ), that they should be "laden with iniquity" is therefore the more monstrous. Sin is a load ( ). seed —another appellation of God's elect ( ), designed to be a "holy seed" ( ), but, awful to say, "evildoers!" children —by adoption ( ), yet "evildoers"; not only so, but "corrupters" of others ( ); the climax. So "nation—people—seed children." provoked —literally, "despised," namely, so as to provoke ( ). Holy One of Israel —the peculiar heinousness of their sin, that it was against their God ( ). gone . . . backward

Isaiah 1:4

4. people—the peculiar designation of God's elect nation (Ho 1:10), that they should be "laden with iniquity" is therefore the more monstrous. Sin is a load (Ps 38:4; Mt 11:28).

seed—another appellation of God's elect (Ge 12:7; Jer 2:21), designed to be a "holy seed" (Isa 6:13), but, awful to say, "evildoers!"

children—by adoption (Ho 11:1), yet "evildoers"; not only so, but "corrupters" of others (Ge 6:12); the climax. So "nation—people—seed children."

provoked—literally, "despised," namely, so as to provoke (Pr 1:30, 31).

Holy One of Israel—the peculiar heinousness of their sin, that it was against their God (Am 3:2).

gone . . . backward—literally, "estranged" (Ps 58:3).