Isaiah 1:21
How the faithful city has become a harlot! She who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
22Thy silver has become dross, thy wine mixed with water.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 19:9And he charged them, saying, Thus ye shall do in the fear of LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
Psalms 46:4There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
Psalms 48:8As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of LORD of hosts, in the city of our God, God will establish it forever. Selah.
Isaiah 26:10Let favor be shown to a wicked man, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not behold the majesty of LORD.
Isaiah 57:3But draw near here, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.
Jeremiah 3:1They say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again? Will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou have played the harlot with many lovers. Yet return again to me,
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 1:17-21
A Call to Repentance; Repentance and Reformation Urged. ( b. c. 738.) 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the… Read the whole commentary →