And the donkey its master’s1 crib;
But Israel bdoes not know,
My people do not1 consider.”
A people1 la1den with iniquity,
aA brood of evildoers,
Children who are corrupters!
They have forsaken the Lord,
They have provoked to anger
The Holy One of Israel,
They have turned away backward.
You will revolt more and more.
The whole head is sick,
And the whole heart faints.
There is no soundness in it,
But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores;
They have not been closed or bound up,
Or soothed with ointment.
Your cities are burned with fire;
Strangers devour your land in your presence;
And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
As a hut in a garden of cucumbers,
bAs a besieged city.
Had left to us a very small remnant,
We would have become like bSodom,
We would have been made like Gomorrah.
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Isaiah 1:5
Why—rather, as Vulgate, "On what part." Image from a body covered all over with marks of blows (Psalms 38:3). There is no part in which you have not been smitten.
head . . . sick, etc.—not referring, as it is commonly quoted, to their sins, but to the universality of their punishment. However, sin, the moral disease of the head or intellect, and the heart, is doubtless made its own punishment (Proverbs 1:31; Jeremiah 2:19; Hosea 8:11). "Sick," literally, "is in a state of sickness" [GESENIUS]; "has passed into sickness" [MAURER].
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 1:5:
Isaiah 30:26
Jeremiah 2:30
Jeremiah 5:3
Matthew 5:13-16
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