Isaiah 1:21
How has the faithful city Sion, once full of judgment, become a harlot! wherein righteousness lodged, but now murderers.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
22Your silver is worthless, thy wine merchants mix the wine with water.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 19:9And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the Lord, in truth and with a perfect heart.
Psalms 46:4He has subdued the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet.
Psalms 48:8A brother does not redeem, shall a man redeem? he shall not give to God a ransom for himself,
Isaiah 26:10For the ungodly one is put down: no one who will not learn righteousness on the earth, shall be able to do the truth: let the ungodly be taken away, that he see not the glory of the Lord.
Isaiah 57:3But draw ye near hither, ye lawless children, the seed of adulterers and the harlot.
Jeremiah 3:1If a man put away his wife, and she depart from him, and become another man's, shall she return to him any more at all? shall not that woman be utterly defiled? yet thou hast gone a-whoring with many shepherds, and hast returned to me, saith 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 →