Isaiah 1:21
The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.
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In Context
22Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 19:9And he gave them their orders, saying, You are to do your work in the fear of the Lord, in good faith and with a true heart.
Psalms 46:4\46:3\Though its waters are sounding and troubled, and though the mountains are shaking with their violent motion. (Selah.)
Psalms 48:8\48:7\By you the ships of Tarshish are broken as by an east wind.
Isaiah 26:10Even if you are kind to the evil-doer, he will not go after righteousness; even in the land of the upright he will still go on in his wrongdoing, and will not see the glory of the Lord.
Isaiah 57:3But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.
Jeremiah 3:1They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come back to me? says the Lord.
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 →