Wherefore should ye be [a]smitten anymore? for ye fall away more and more: the whole [b]head is sick, and the whole heart is heavy.

From the [c]sole of the foot unto the head, there is nothing whole therein, but wounds and swelling, and sores full of corruption: they have not been wrapped, [d]nor bound up nor mollified with oil.

Your land is waste: your cities are burnt with fire: strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate like the overthrow of [e]strangers.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:5 What availeth it to seek to amend you by punishment, seeing the more I correct you, the more ye rebel?
  2. Isaiah 1:5 By naming the chief parts of the body, he signifieth that there was no part of the whole body of the Jews free from his rods.
  3. Isaiah 1:6 Every part of the body as well the least as the chiefest, was plagued.
  4. Isaiah 1:6 Their plagues were so grievous, that they were incurable, and yet they would not repent.
  5. Isaiah 1:7 Meaning, of them that dwell far off, which because they look for no advantage of that which remaineth destroy all before them.

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