Isa 1:10 | TNotes | STEP | 1:10 Listen to (literally listen to the word of ) the Lord : In this context, listen means to respond in obedience to the law (or teaching; Hebrew torah ) of our God (see 2:3 ; 5:24 ). • leaders ... people: All levels of society were guilty. • Like Sodom and Gomorrah , Jerusalem had come under divine judgment for its rebellion against God’s laws. Jerusalem might have been utterly destroyed like those cities were it not for God’s grace (1:9 ; see Gen 19 ).

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‏ Isaiah 1:10

1:10 ^a Listen to (literally listen to the word of) the Lord: In this context, listen means to respond in obedience to the law (or teaching; Hebrew torah) of our God (see 2:3 ^b; 5:24 ^c).

• leaders ... people: All levels of society were guilty.

• Like Sodom and Gomorrah, Jerusalem had come under divine judgment for its rebellion against God’s laws. Jerusalem might have been utterly destroyed like those cities were it not for God’s grace (1:9 ^d; see Gen 19 ^e).