Isaiah 1:20
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New International Version (©2011)
but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword." For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But if you turn away and refuse to listen, you will be devoured by the sword of your enemies. I, the LORD, have spoken!"

English Standard Version (©2001)
but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"But if you refuse and rebel, You will be devoured by the sword." Truly, the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword." For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

International Standard Version (©2012)
but if you refuse and rebel, you'll be devoured by the sword, because the LORD has spoken."

NET Bible (©2006)
But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword." Know for certain that the LORD has spoken.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But if you refuse and rebel, you will be destroyed by swords." The LORD has spoken.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.

American King James Version
But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.

American Standard Version
but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Darby Bible Translation
but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.

English Revised Version
but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

Webster's Bible Translation
But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

World English Bible
but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it."

Young's Literal Translation
And if ye refuse, and have rebelled, By the sword ye are consumed, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

1:16-20 Not only feel sorrow for the sin committed, but break off the practice. We must be doing, not stand idle. We must be doing the good the Lord our God requires. It is plain that the sacrifices of the law could not atone, even for outward national crimes. But, blessed be God, there is a Fountain opened, in which sinners of every age and rank may be cleansed. Though our sins have been as scarlet and crimson, a deep dye, a double dye, first in the wool of original corruption, and afterwards in the many threads of actual transgression; though we have often dipped into sin, by many backslidings; yet pardoning mercy will take out the stain, Ps 51:7. They should have all the happiness and comfort they could desire. Life and death, good and evil, are set before us. O Lord, incline all of us to live to thy glory.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 20. - If ye refuse and rebel; i.e. "if ye neither consent in will, nor obey in act, "antithetical to the two verbs in the first clause of ver. 19. Ye shall be devoured; or, ye shall be eaten. The same verb as in the latter clause of ver. 19. With the sword. The metaphor is not a common one, but occurs in Jeremiah (Jeremiah 2:30; Jeremiah 12:12; Jeremiah 46:10, 14) and Nahum (Nahum 2:13). The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. A weighty ending, indicating the certainty of fulfillment, Jehovah, who cannot lie, has spoken; the result will assuredly follow.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But if ye refuse and rebel,.... The Targum is, "and do not receive my Word"; the Messiah, when come, neither his person, nor his doctrines and ordinances:

ye shall be devoured with the sword; of the Roman armies, as they were under Titus Vespasian; see Matthew 22:7.

for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it; now, by Isaiah, as well as in former times, Leviticus 26:25.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

20. Lord hath spoken it—Isaiah's prophecies rest on the law (Le 26:33). God alters not His word (Numbers 23. 19).

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Meaningless Offerings
…18Come now, and let us reason together, said 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. 19If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land: 20But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.

Titus 1:2 in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time,
1 Samuel 12:15 But if you do not obey the LORD, and if you rebel against his commands, his hand will be against you, as it was against your ancestors.
1 Samuel 12:25 Yet if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will perish."
Isaiah 3:25 Your men will fall by the sword, your warriors in battle.
Isaiah 8:6 "Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoices over Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
Isaiah 34:16 Look in the scroll of the LORD and read: None of these will be missing, not one will lack her mate. For it is his mouth that has given the order, and his Spirit will gather them together.
Isaiah 40:5 And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all people will see it together. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken."
Isaiah 58:14 then you will find your joy in the LORD, and I will cause you to ride in triumph on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob." The mouth of the LORD has spoken.
Isaiah 65:12 I will destine you for the sword, and all of you will fall in the slaughter; for I called but you did not answer, I spoke but you did not listen. You did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me."
Jeremiah 4:17 They surround her like men guarding a field, because she has rebelled against me,'" declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 17:27 But if you do not obey me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying any load as you come through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in the gates of Jerusalem that will consume her fortresses.'"
Jeremiah 21:8 "Furthermore, tell the people, 'This is what the LORD says: See, I am setting before you the way of life and the way of death.