Isaiah 1:21
How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness used to lodge in it, but now murderers.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
22Thy silver is become dross, thy wine is mixed with water:
Cross References
2 Chronicles 19:9And he charged them saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of Jehovah faithfully and with a perfect heart.
Psalms 46:4There is a river the streams whereof make glad the city of God, the sanctuary of the habitations of the Most High.
Psalms 48:8As we have heard, so have we seen, in the city of Jehovah of hosts, in the city of our God: God doth establish it for ever. Selah.
Isaiah 26:10If favour be shewn to the wicked, he doth not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness he dealeth unjustly, and beholdeth not the majesty of Jehovah.
Isaiah 57:3But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.
Jeremiah 3:1They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? Would not that land be utterly polluted? But thou hast committed fornication with many lovers; yet return to me, saith Jehovah.
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 →