Isaiah 1:21
How has the faithful city Sion, once full of judgment, become a harlot! wherein righteousness lodged, but now murderers.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
22Your silver is worthless, your wine merchants mix the wine with water.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 19:9And he charged them, saying, Thus shall you⌃ do in the fear of the Lord, in truth and with a perfect heart.
Psalms 46:4He has chosen out his inheritance for us, the beauty of Jacob which he loved. Pause. 1
Psalms 48:8or the price of the redemption of his soul, though he labor for ever, 1
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 you⌃ near hither, you⌃ 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 you⌃ have gone a-whoring with many shepherds, and have returned 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 →