Isaiah 1:21
How has a faithful city become a harlot? I have filled it [with] judgment, || Righteousness lodges in it—now murderers.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
22Your silver has become dross, || Your drink defiled with water.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 19:9and he lays a charge on them, saying, “Thus do you do in the fear of YHWH, in faithfulness, and with a perfect heart,
Psalms 46:4A river—its streams make glad the city of God, || Your holy place of the dwelling places of the Most High.
Psalms 48:8As we have heard, so we have seen, || In the city of YHWH of hosts, || In the city of our God, God establishes her for all time. Selah.
Isaiah 26:10The wicked finds favor, || He has not learned righteousness, || He deals perversely in a land of straightforwardness, || And does not see the excellence of YHWH.
Isaiah 57:3“And you, come near here, || O sons of a sorceress, seed of an adulterer, || Even you commit whoredom.
Jeremiah 3:1“Saying, Behold, one sends his wife away, || And she has gone from him, || And she has been to another man, || Does he return to her again? Is that land not greatly defiled? And you have committed whoredom with many lovers, || And turn to Me again,” || A declaration of YHWH.
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 →