Isaiah 1:21
How has the faithful city, full of judgment, become a harlot? Justice lived in her, but now murderers.
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In Context
22Your silver has turned into dross. Your wine has been mixed with water.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 19:9And he instructed them, saying, “So shall you act: faithfully, in the fear of the Lord, and with a perfect heart.
Psalms 46:4He has subjected the peoples to us and subdued the nations under our feet.
Psalms 48:8no brother redeems, nor will man buy back. He will not give to God his appeasement,
Isaiah 26:10Let us take pity on the impious one, but he will not learn justice. In the land of the holy ones, he has done iniquity, and so he will not see the glory of the Lord.
Isaiah 57:3But come here, you sons of the prophetess, you offspring of an adulterous man and a fornicating woman.
Jeremiah 3:1“It is commonly said: ‘If a man has divorced his wife, and she departs from him, she will marry another man.’ So why would he return to her again? Is not that woman polluted and defiled? But you have fornicated yourself with many lovers. Even so, return to me, says the Lord, and I will accept you.
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 →