Isaiah 1:21
How the faithful city has become a prostitute! 1 She who was full of justice—she was full of righteousness, 1 but now she is full of murderers. 1
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20but if you refuse and rebel, the sword will devour you,” 1 for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it. 1
22Your silver has become impure, your wine mixed with water. 1
Cross References
2 Chronicles 19:9He instructed them, saying, “You must serve in reverence for Yahweh, faithfully, and with your whole heart.
Psalms 46:4There is a river whose streams make the city of God happy, 1 the holy place where the Most High dwells. 1
Psalms 48:8As we have heard, so have we seen 1 in the city of Yahweh of hosts, in the city of our God; 1 God will establish it forever. Selah 1
Isaiah 26:10Let favor be shown to the wicked one, but he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he acts wickedly 1 and does not see the majesty of Yahweh. 1
Isaiah 57:3But come here, you sons of the sorceress, 1 children of the adulterer and the woman who has prostituted herself. 1
Jeremiah 3:1“If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, 1 will he return to her again? Would that land not be greatly polluted? 1 You have lived as a prostitute who has many lovers; and would you return to me?—this is Yahweh's declaration. 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 →