Isaiah 1:5

Why, seeing that ye will be stricken again, 1 will ye rebel stubbornly again? 1 The kol rosh is sick, 1 and the kol levav faint. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

In Context

4Ah, goy choteh (sinful nation), 1 a people weighed down with avon (guilt, iniquity), 1 zera of evildoers, banim of corruption; 1 they forsook Hashem, 1 they have spurned the Kadosh Yisroel (the Holy One of Yisroel), 1 they have turned their back on Him. + 1:4 T.N. Here we see it is “My people” ( Ex 6:6-7 ) who are stricken, whereas in Isa 53:8 it is Moshiach Ben Dovid who is stricken for My people. 1

6From the sole of the regel even unto the rosh 1 there is no soundness in it; 1 but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores; 1 they have not been closed, 1 neither bound up, neither soothed with shemen. 1

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Cross References

Nehemiah 9:34Neither have melacheinu, sareinu, Kohaneinu, nor Avoteinu, kept Thy torah, nor paid heed unto Thy mitzvot and Thy testimonies, wherewith Thou didst testify against them.

Isaiah 9:13Therefore Hashem will root out of Yisroel head and tail, 1 palm branch and reed, in yom echad. 1

Isaiah 31:6Shuvu (turn ye, return) unto Him from Whom the Bnei Yisroel have deeply revolted.

Jeremiah 2:30In vain have I struck your banim; 1 they received no musar; + 2:30 cf Isa 53:5 1 your own cherev hath devoured your nevi'im, 1 like a destroying lion. 1

Jeremiah 5:5I will get me unto the Gedolim, 1 and will speak unto them; 1 for they have known the Derech Hashem, 1 and the Mishpat Eloheihem; 1 but these have altogether broken off the ol (yoke), 1 and burst the bonds. 1

Jeremiah 6:28They are all maximum rebels, 1 going about as rachil (talebearers, slanderers); 1 they are nechoshet and barzel; 1 they are all corrupt. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 1:3-10

The Degeneracy of Israel; The Sinfulness of Israel; The Sufferings of Israel. ( b. c. 738.) 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord , they have provoked the Holy One of… Read the whole commentary →

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