"Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob t…" — Isaiah 58:1

Isaiah 58:1 · KJV

“Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. {aloud: Heb. with the throat}”

— Isaiah 58:1

Verse 2

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

Isaiah 58 — Context

Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. {aloud: Heb. with the throat}

Wherefore have we fasted, {say they}, and thou seest not? {wherefore} have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. {labours: or, things wherewith ye grieve others: Heb. griefs}

Cross References

Titus 2:15

These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

Hosea 8:1

{Set} the trumpet to thy mouth. {He shall come} as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. {thy: Heb. the roof of thy}

Acts 20:26-27

Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I {am} pure from the blood of all {men}.

Ezekiel 3:17-21

Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

Acts 7:51-52

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers {did}, so {do} ye.

Matthew 3:7-9

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?

Ezekiel 3:5-9

For thou {art} not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, {but} to the house of Israel; {of a...: Heb. deep of lip, and heavy of tongue}

Micah 3:8-12

But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.