Isaiah 1:21
How hath she become unchaste!—The city that was Faithful,—Full of justice, Righteousness lodged in her, But, now, murderers!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
22Thy silver, hath become dross,—Thy wine, weakened with water;
Cross References
2 Chronicles 19:9And he laid charge upon them, saying,—Thus, shall ye act, in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully and with an undivided heart.
Psalms 46:4A river! whose channels, shall gladden the city of God, The Most High, hath hallowed his habitation.
Psalms 48:8Just as we have heard, So, have we seen, In the city of Yahweh of hosts, In the city of our God, God himself, will establish her, unto times age-abiding. [Selah.]
Isaiah 26:10Let favour be shewed to the lawless, he hath not learned righteousness, In a land of honest dealings, he acteth perversely,—And seeth not the splendour of Yahweh.
Isaiah 57:3But, ye, …draw near hither, Ye sons of divination,—Ye seed of an adulterer when your mother committed unchastity!
Jeremiah 3:1He hath said, If a man send away his wife, and she go from him and become another man’s, will he return unto her, again? would not that land be, utterly defiled? And, thou, hast been unchaste with many neighbours, and yet [thinkest] to return unto me! Declareth Yahweh.
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 →