Isaiah 1:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Why do you seek further beatings? Why do you continue to rebel? The whole head is injured, and the whole heart faint. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Why should you be stricken and punished any more [since it brings no correction]? You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart is faint (feeble, sick, and nauseated). American Standard Version (1901) Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. Common English Bible Why do you invite further beatings? Why continue to rebel? Everyone’s head throbs, and everyone’s heart fails. Catholic Public Domain Version For what reason shall I continue to strike you, as you increase transgressions? The entire head is feeble, and the entire heart is grieving. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad. |
Again the king sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. So the third captain of fifty went up and came and fell on his knees before Elijah and entreated him, “O man of God, please let my life and the life of these fifty servants of yours be precious in your sight.
In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the Lord—this same King Ahaz.
our kings, our officials, our priests, and our ancestors have not kept your law or heeded the commandments and the warnings that you gave them.
Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the orphan, and the widow’s cause does not come before them.
And no inhabitant will say, “I am sick”; the people who live there will be forgiven their iniquity.
The people did not turn to him who struck them or seek the Lord of hosts.
Manasseh devoured Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh, and together they were against Judah. For all this his anger has not turned away; his hand is stretched out still.
Can Cushites change their skin or leopards their spots? Then also you can do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse— who can understand it?
In vain I have struck down your children; they accepted no correction. Your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.
Then all the men who were aware that their wives had been making offerings to other gods and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, all the people who lived in Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah:
O Lord, do your eyes not look for truth? You have struck them, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to turn back.
the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule as the prophets direct; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?
Let me go to the rich and speak to them; surely they know the way of the Lord, the law of their God.” But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.
They bend their tongues like bows; they have grown strong in the land for falsehood and not for truth, for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the Lord.
Because of this our hearts are sick; because of these things our eyes have grown dim:
Yet when I cleansed you in your filthy lewdness, you did not become clean from your filth; you shall not again be cleansed until I have satisfied my fury upon you.
I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strays, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with justice.
You have not strengthened the weak; you have not healed the sick; you have not bound up the injured; you have not brought back the strays; you have not sought the lost, but with force and harshness you have ruled them.