Isaiah 1:21
How is the faithful city become a harlot, She that was full of equity! Once justice dwelt in her, but now murderers!
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
22Thy silver is become dross; Thy wine is adulterated with water.
Cross References
Psalms 46:4A river with its streams shall make glad the city of God, The holy dwelling-place of the Most High.
Psalms 48:8As we have heard, so have we seen In the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God; God will establish it for ever. [[Pause.]]
Isaiah 26:10Though favor be shown to the wicked, He will not learn righteousness; In the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, And have no regard to the majesty of Jehovah.
Isaiah 57:3But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, Ye brood of the adulterer and the harlot!
Jeremiah 3:1It is said, if a man put away his wife, And she go from him, and become another man's, Shall he return to her again? Shall not that land be polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; And shalt thou 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 →