Isaiah 1:21
How is the Kiryah Ne'emanah (Faithful City, i.e., Yerushalayim) become a zonah (harlot)! 1 It was full of mishpat; 1 tzedek lodged in it; 1 but now murderers. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
22Thy kesef is become dross, 1 thy wine mixed with mayim: 1
Cross References
2 Chronicles 19:9And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the yirat Hashem, be'emunah and with a levav shalem.
Psalms 46:4Though the mayim thereof roar and be troubled, 1 though the harim shake with the surging thereof. 1 Selah 1
Psalms 48:8Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish 1 with an east wind. 1
Isaiah 26:10Let grace be shown to the rasha, 1 yet he will not learn tzedek; 1 in the Eretz Nekhochot (Land of Straightforwardness) he will deal unjustly, 1 and will not regard the ge'ut Hashem (majesty, exaltedness of Hashem ). 1
Isaiah 57:3But draw near to here, 1 ye bnei onenah (you children of a sorceress), 1 zera mena'ef (offspring of an adulterer) and she who plays the zonah. 1
Jeremiah 3:1They say: 1 If an ish put away [in divorce] his isha, 1 and she go from him, 1 and become another manʼs, 1 shall he return unto her again? 1 Shall not that eretz be defiled and greatly polluted? 1 But thou hast played the zonah with re'im rabbim (many lovers); 1 yet shuv (turn) to Me, saith Hashem. 1
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 →