Isaiah 1:5 - John Wesley's Notes

Isaiah 1:5

3 ^aThe ox knows its owner
And the donkey its master’s¹ crib;
But Israel ^bdoes not know,
My people do not¹ consider.”

4 Alas, sinful nation,
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.

5 ^aWhy should you be stricken again?
You will revolt more and more.
The whole head is sick,
And the whole heart faints.

6 From the sole of the foot even to the head,
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.

7 ^aYour country is desolate,
Your cities are burned with fire;
Strangers devour your land in your presence;
And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

8 So the daughter of Zion is left ^aas a booth in a vineyard,
As a hut in a garden of cucumbers,
^bAs a besieged city.

9 ^aUnless the Lord of hosts
Had left to us a very small remnant,
We would have become like ^bSodom,
We would have been made like Gomorrah.

10 Hear the word of the Lord,
You rulers ^aof Sodom;
Give ear to the law of our God,
You people of Gomorrah:

11 “To what purpose is the multitude of your ^asacrifices to Me?”
Says the Lord.
“I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
And the fat of fed cattle.
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
Or of lambs or goats.

12 “When you come ^ato appear before Me,
Who has required this from your hand,
To trample My courts?

13 Bring no more ^afutile sacrifices;
Incense is an abomination to Me.
The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and ^bthe calling of assemblies—
I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting.

14 Your ^aNew Moons and your ^bappointed feasts
My soul hates;
They are a trouble to Me,
I am weary of bearing them.

15 ^aWhen you¹ spread out your hands,
I will hide My eyes from you;
^bEven though you make many prayers,
I will not hear.
Your hands are full of¹ blood.

16 “Wash^a yourselves, make yourselves clean;
Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes.
^bCease to do evil,

17 Learn to do good;
Seek justice,
Rebuke¹ the oppressor;
¹Defend the fatherless,
Plead for the widow.

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Isaiah 1:5

Head - The very head and heart of the body politick, from whence the plague is derived to all the other members.

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