Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
From the lowest to the highest of the people; "the ancient and honorable, the head, the prophet that teacheth lies, the tail." See Isaiah 9:13-16. He first states their wretched condition, obvious to all (Isaiah 1:6-9); and then, not previously, their irreligious state, the cause of it.
wounds—judicially inflicted (Hosea 5:13).
mollified with ointment—The art of medicine in the East consists chiefly in external applications (Luke 10:34; James 5:14).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 1:6:
Job 2:7
Song of Solomon 4:1
Isaiah 1:6
Isaiah 3:7
Isaiah 6:10
Isaiah 58:8
Hosea 5:13
Matthew 5:13-16
Luke 10:34
Luke 16:20-21
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