Isaiah 1:5

Isaiah 1:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
• New International Version (NIV)Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Why should you be stricken again? You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faints.

Context of Isaiah 1:5

3The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.” 4Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him. Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted. 6From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness— only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil. 7Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you— a desolation demolished by strangers.

Isaiah 1:5 word by word

עַ֣ל מֶ֥ה תֻכּ֛וּ ע֖וֹד תּוֹסִ֣יפוּ סָרָ֑ה כָּל־רֹ֣אשׁ לָחֳלִ֔י וְכָל־לֵבָ֖ב דַּוָּֽי׃Read the interlinear

• Whyעַל‛al · uponH5921
• Whyמָהmâh mah mâ ma meh · what?H4100
• do you want moreעוֹד‛ôd ‛ôd · stillH5750
• beatingsנָכָהnâkâh · to smiteH5221
• Why do you keepיָסַףyâsaph · to add: againH3254
• rebellingסָרָהsârâh · revoltH5627
• Your headרֹאשׁrô'sh · headH7218
• has a massiveכֹּלkôl kôl · allH3605
• woundחֳלִיchŏlîy · sicknessH2483
• heartלֵבָבlêbâb · heartH3824
• is afflictedדַּוָּיdavvây · faintH1742

Cross-references for Isaiah 1:5

• Isaiah 9:13But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.
• Jeremiah 2:30“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”
• Jeremiah 5:3O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
• Jeremiah 6:28All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.
• Ezekiel 24:13Because of the indecency of your uncleanness I tried to cleanse you, but you would not be purified from your filthiness. You will not be pure again until My wrath against you has subsided.
• Hebrews 12:5And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
• 2 Chronicles 28:22In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.
• Jeremiah 9:3“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
• Revelation 16:8Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given power to scorch the people with fire.
• Isaiah 1:23Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
• Nehemiah 9:34Our kings and leaders and priests and fathers did not obey Your law or listen to Your commandments and warnings that You gave them.
• Jeremiah 5:5I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.
• Daniel 9:8O LORD, we are covered with shame—our kings, our leaders, and our fathers—because we have sinned against You.
• Zephaniah 3:1Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!

Commentaries on Isaiah 1:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Why should ye be stricken any more "On what part," etc.? - The Vulgate renders מה על al meh, super quo, (see Job 38:6; 2 Chronicles 32:10;), upon what part. And so Abendana on Sal. Den Melech: "There are some who explain it thus: Upon what limb shall you be smitten, if you add defection? for already for your sins have you been smitten upon all of them; so that there is not to be found in you a whole limb on which you can be smitten." Which agrees with…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Why … - The prophet now, by an abrupt change in the discourse, calls their attention to the effects of their sins. Instead of saving that they had been smitten, or of saying that they had been punished for their sins, he assumes both, and asks why it should be repeated. The Vulgate reads this: Super quo - on what part - shall I smite you anymore?‘ This expresses well the sense of the Hebrew - על־מה ‛al -meh - upon what; and the meaning is, what part of…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5God sent famine, war, disease, and death as punishment. However, God often wanted to change stubborn behavior rather than just punish. Because of their ongoing rebellion, the people’s “head” is described as injured and their “heart” as sick. This language shows how serious their condition had become. The nation suffered physical harm from Assyrian attacks. At the same time, they were spiritually defiled and overcome by sin (Isaiah 64:6).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. Why--rather, as Vulgate, "On what part." Image from a body covered all over with marks of blows (Psa 38:3). There is no part in which you have not been smitten. head ... sick, &c.--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 (Pr 1:31; Jr 2:19; Ho 8:11). "Sick," literally, "is in a state…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Isaiah 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings