◄ Isaiah 1:5 ►
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Good News Translation
Why do you keep on rebelling? Do you want to be punished even more? Israel, your head is already covered with wounds, and your heart and mind are sick.

New Revised Standard Version
Why do you seek further beatings? Why do you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Contemporary English Version
Why be punished more? Why not give up your sin? Your head is badly bruised, and you are weak all over.

New American Bible
Why would you yet be struck, that you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.

should

Isaiah 9:13,21 And the people are not returned to him who hath struck them, and have not sought after the Lord of hosts. . . .

Jeremiah 2:30 In vain have I struck your children, they have not received correction: your sword hath devoured your prophets, your generation is like a ravaging lion.

Jeremiah 5:3 O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck them, and they have not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than the rock, and they have refused to return.

Jeremiah 6:28-30 All these princes go out of the way, they walk deceitfully, they are brass and iron: they are all corrupted. . . .

Ezekiel 24:13 Thy uncleanness is execrable: because I desired to cleanse thee, and thou art not cleansed from thy filthiness: neither shalt thou be cleansed, before I cause my indignation to rest in thee.

Hebrews 12:5-8 And you have forgotten the consolation which speaketh to you, as unto children, saying: My son, neglect not the discipline of the Lord: neither be thou wearied whilst thou art rebuked by him. . . .

ye will

2 Chronicles 28:22 Moreover also in the time of his distress he increased contempt against the Lord: king Achaz himself by himself,

Jeremiah 9:3 And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies, and not for truth: they have strengthened themselves upon the earth, for they have proceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith the Lord.

Revelation 16:8-11 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun. And it was given unto him to afflict men with heat and fire. . . .

revolt more and more.

Isaiah 1:23 Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cause cometh not in to them.

Nehemiah 9:34 Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept thy law, and have not minded thy commandments, and thy testimonies which thou hast testified among them.

Jeremiah 5:5,31 I will go therefore to the great men, and will speak to them: for they have known the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God: and behold these have altogether broken the yoke more, and have burst the bonds. . . .

Daniel 9:8-11 O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, that have sinned. . . .

Zephaniah 3:1-4 Woe to the provoking and redeemed city, the dove. . . .

Context
Judah's Rebellion
…4Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards. 5For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.6From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no soundness therein: wounds and bruises and swelling sores: they are not bound up, nor dressed, nor fomented with oil.…
Cross References
2 Kings 1:13
Again he sent a third captain of fifty men, and the fifty that were with him. And when he was come, he fell upon his knees before Elias, and besought him, and said: Man of God, despise not my life, and the lives of thy servants that are with me.

2 Chronicles 28:22
Moreover also in the time of his distress he increased contempt against the Lord: king Achaz himself by himself,

Isaiah 31:6
Return as you had deeply revolted, O children of Israel.

Isaiah 33:24
Neither shall he that is near, say: I am feeble. The people that dwell therein, shall have their iniquity taken away from them.

Jeremiah 2:30
In vain have I struck your children, they have not received correction: your sword hath devoured your prophets, your generation is like a ravaging lion.

Jeremiah 5:3
O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck them, and they have not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than the rock, and they have refused to return.

Jeremiah 13:23
If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his spots: you also may do well, when you have learned evil.

Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?

Jeremiah 44:15
Then all the men that knew that their wives sacrificed to other gods: and all the women of whom there stood by a great multitude, and all the people of them that dwelt in the land of Egypt in Phatures, answered Jeremiah, saying:

Lamentations 5:17
Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim.

Ezekiel 34:4
The weak you have not strengthened, and that which was sick you have not healed, that which was broken you have not bound up, and that which was driven away you have not brought again, neither have you sought that which was lost: but you ruled over them with rigour, and with a high hand.

Ezekiel 34:16
I will seek that which was lost: and that which was driven away, I will bring again: and I will bind up that which was broken, and I will strengthen that which was weak, and that which was fat and strong I will preserve, and I will feed them in judgment.

Isaiah 1:4
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