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Isaiah 1:5
5Why do you continue to invite punishment? Must you rebel forever? Your head is injured, and your heart is sick.
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
3Even an ox knows its owner, and a donkey recognizes its master’s care— but Israel doesn’t know its master. My people don’t recognize my care for them.” 4Oh, what a sinful nation they are— loaded down with a burden of guilt. They are evil people, corrupt children who have rejected the Lord. They have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him. Why do you continue to invite punishment? Must you rebel forever? Your head is injured, and your heart is sick. 6You are battered from head to foot— covered with bruises, welts, and infected wounds— without any soothing ointments or bandages. 7Your country lies in ruins, and your towns are burned. Foreigners plunder your fields before your eyes and destroy everything they see.
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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 9:13For after all this punishment, the people will still not repent. They will not seek the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
- Jeremiah 2:30“I have punished your children, but they did not respond to my discipline. You yourselves have killed your prophets as a lion kills its prey.
- Jeremiah 5:3Lord, you are searching for honesty. You struck your people, but they paid no attention. You crushed them, but they refused to be corrected. They are determined, with faces set like stone; they have refused to repent.
- Jeremiah 6:28They are the worst kind of rebel, full of slander. They are as hard as bronze and iron, and they lead others into corruption.
- Ezekiel 24:13Your impurity is your lewdness and the corruption of your idolatry. I tried to cleanse you, but you refused. So now you will remain in your filth until my fury against you has been satisfied.
- Hebrews 12:5And have you forgotten the encouraging words God spoke to you as his children? He said, “My child, don’t make light of the Lord’s discipline, and don’t give up when he corrects you.
- 2 Chronicles 28:22Even during this time of trouble, King Ahaz continued to reject the Lord.
- Jeremiah 9:3“My people bend their tongues like bows to shoot out lies. They refuse to stand up for the truth. They only go from bad to worse. They do not know me,” says the Lord.
- Revelation 16:8Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, causing it to scorch everyone with its fire.
- Isaiah 1:23Your leaders are rebels, the companions of thieves. All of them love bribes and demand payoffs, but they refuse to defend the cause of orphans or fight for the rights of widows.
- Nehemiah 9:34Our kings, leaders, priests, and ancestors did not obey your Law or listen to the warnings in your commands and laws.
- Jeremiah 5:5So I will go and speak to their leaders. Surely they know the ways of the Lord and understand God’s laws.” But the leaders, too, as one man, had thrown off God’s yoke and broken his chains.
- Daniel 9:8O Lord, we and our kings, princes, and ancestors are covered with shame because we have sinned against you.
- Zephaniah 3:1What sorrow awaits rebellious, polluted Jerusalem, the city of violence and crime!
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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