English Standard Version
Isaiah 1:5
5Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Why do you continue to invite punishment? Must you rebel forever? Your head is injured, and your heart is sick.
Context of Isaiah 1:5
3The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand." 4Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 6From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and raw wounds; they are not pressed out or bound up or softened with oil. 7Your country lies desolate; your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence foreigners devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.
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עַ֣ל מֶ֥ה תֻכּ֛וּ ע֖וֹד תּוֹסִ֣יפוּ סָרָ֑ה כָּל־רֹ֣אשׁ לָחֳלִ֔י וְכָל־לֵבָ֖ב דַּוָּֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Isaiah 1:5
- Isaiah 9:13The people did not turn to him who struck them, nor inquire of the Lord of hosts.
- Jeremiah 2:30In vain have I struck your children; they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.
- Jeremiah 5:3O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth? You have struck them down, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent.
- Jeremiah 6:28They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron; all of them act corruptly.
- Ezekiel 24:13On account of your unclean lewdness, because I would have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your uncleanness, you shall not be cleansed anymore till I have satisfied my fury upon you.
- Hebrews 12:5And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.
- 2 Chronicles 28:22In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the Lord—this same King Ahaz.
- Jeremiah 9:3They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
- Revelation 16:8The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire.
- Isaiah 1:23Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.
- Nehemiah 9:34Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or paid attention to your commandments and your warnings that you gave them.
- Jeremiah 5:5I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God." But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.
- Daniel 9:8To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.
- Zephaniah 3:1Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city!
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
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