Isaiah 1:20
Good News Translation
But if you defy me, you are doomed to die. I, the LORD, have spoken."

New Revised Standard Version
but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

Contemporary English Version
But if you turn against me, your enemies will kill you. I, the LORD, have spoken.

New American Bible
But if you refuse and resist, you shall be eaten by the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken!

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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

if ye refuse

Isaiah 3:11 Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

1 Samuel 12:25 But if you will still do wickedly: both you and your king shall perish together.

2 Chronicles 36:14-16 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people wickedly transgressed according to all the abominations of the Gentiles: and they defiled the house of the Lord, which he had sanctified to himself in Jerusalem. . . .

Hebrews 2:1-3 Therefore ought we more diligently to observe the things which we have heard lest perhaps we should let them slip. . . .

for the mouth

Isaiah 40:5 And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh together shall see, that the mouth of the Lord hath spoken.

Isaiah 58:14 Then shalt thou be delighted in the Lord, and I will lift thee up above the high places of the earth, and will feed thee with the inheritance of Jacob thy father. For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Leviticus 26:33 And I will scatter you among the Gentiles: and I will draw out the sword after you. And your land shall be desert, and your cities destroyed.

Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor is the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil?

1 Samuel 15:29 But the triumpher in Israel will not spare, and will not be moved to repentance: for he is not a man that he should repent.

Titus 1:2 Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath promised before the times of the world:

Context
Meaningless Offerings
19If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land. 20But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Cross References
Titus 1:2
Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath promised before the times of the world:

1 Samuel 12:15
But if you will not hearken to the voice of the Lord, but will rebel against his words, the hand of the Lord shall be upon you, and upon your fathers.

1 Samuel 12:25
But if you will still do wickedly: both you and your king shall perish together.

Isaiah 3:25
Thy fairest men also shall fall by the sword, and thy valiant ones in battle.

Isaiah 8:6
Forasmuch as this people hath cast away the waters of Siloe, that go with silence, and hath rather taken Rasin, and the son of Romelia:

Isaiah 34:16
Search ye diligently in the book of the Lord, and read: not one of them was wanting, one hath not sought for the other: for that which proceedeth out of my mouth, he hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

Isaiah 40:5
And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh together shall see, that the mouth of the Lord hath spoken.

Isaiah 58:14
Then shalt thou be delighted in the Lord, and I will lift thee up above the high places of the earth, and will feed thee with the inheritance of Jacob thy father. For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Isaiah 65:12
I will number you in the sword, and you shall all fall by slaughter: because I called and you did not answer: I spoke, and you did not hear: and you did evil in my eyes, and you have chosen the things that displease me.

Jeremiah 4:17
They are set round about her, as keepers of fields: because she hath provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 17:27
But if you will not hearken to me, to sanctify the sabbath day, and not to carry burdens, and not to bring them in by the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day: I will kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

Jeremiah 21:8
And to this people thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

Jeremiah 26:4
And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: If you will not hearken to me to walk in my law, which I have given you:

Jeremiah 46:14
Declare ye to Egypt, and publish it in Magdal, and let it be known in Memphis, and in Taphnis: say ye: Stand up, and prepare thyself: for the sword shall devour all round about thee.

Micah 4:4
And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off: and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into spades: nation shall not take sword against nation: neither shall they learn war anymore.

Isaiah 1:19
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