Isaiah 1:5 - English Standard Version 2016 Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. And 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 princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or paid attention to your commandments and your warnings that you gave them.
Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow’s cause does not come to them.
Turn to him from whom people have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.
And no inhabitant will say, “I am sick”; the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.
The people did not turn to him who struck them, nor inquire of the Lord of hosts.
Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim devours Manasseh; together they are against Judah. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
In vain have I struck your children; they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.
Then all the men who knew that their wives had made 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 not your eyes look for truth? You have struck them down, 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 repent.
the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?
I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.” But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.
They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,
On account of your unclean lewdness, because I would have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your uncleanness, you shall not be cleansed anymore till I have satisfied my fury upon you.
I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.
The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.