Revised Literal Translation
Isaiah 1:5
5Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.1
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 knoweth his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. 4Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken Yhwh, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 6From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. 7Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
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עַ֣ל מֶ֥ה תֻכּ֛וּ ע֖וֹד תּוֹסִ֣יפוּ סָרָ֑ה כָּל־רֹ֣אשׁ לָחֳלִ֔י וְכָל־לֵבָ֖ב דַּוָּֽי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Isaiah 1:5
- Isaiah 9:13For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek Yhwh of Armies.
- Jeremiah 2:30In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
- Jeremiah 5:3O Yhwh, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
- Jeremiah 6:28They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
- Ezekiel 24:13In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
- Hebrews 12:5And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
- 2 Chronicles 28:22And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against Yhwh: this is that king Ahaz.
- Jeremiah 9:3And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Yhwh.
- Revelation 16:8And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
- Isaiah 1:23Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
- Nehemiah 9:34Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.
- Jeremiah 5:5I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of Yhwh, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
- Daniel 9:8O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
- Zephaniah 3:1Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to 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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- 1. Isaiah 1:5 revolt…: Heb. increase revolt. ↩
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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