Isaiah 1:5 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 1:5

Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

KJV

Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Verse 5). In which way shall I strike you any longer, adding transgression? By this testimony we learn that the Lord strikes sinners in order to correct them, and that the punishment is not so much for retribution as for correction. The meaning is this: I cannot find any medicine that I can apply to your wounds; all your limbs are full of sores; I find no part of your body that has not been struck before. Or certainly in this way: I find no wounds by which I can break your stubbornness.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Why ... - The prophet now, by an abrupt change in the discourse, calls their attention to the effects of their sins. Instead of saving that they had been smitten, or of saying that they had been punished for their sins, he assumes both, and asks why it should be repeated. The Vulgate reads this: ‘Super quo - on what part - shall I smite you anymore?’ This expresses well the sense of the Hebrew - על־מה ‛al-meh - upon what; and the meaning is, ‘what part of the body can be found on which blows have not been inflicted?

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
עַ֣ל	'al	concerning	H5921 →
מֶ֥ה	meh	what?	H4100 →
תֻכּ֛וּ	tu.Ku	will you be struck	H5221 →
ע֖וֹד	od	again	H5750 →
תּוֹסִ֣יפוּ	to.Si.fu	will you increase?	H3254 →
סָרָ֑ה	sa.Rah	rebellion	H5627 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
רֹ֣אשׁ	rosh	[the] head	H7218 →
לָחֳלִ֔י	lo.cho.Li	[is] for sickness	H2483 →
וְכָל־	ve.khol	and all	H3605 →
לֵבָ֖ב	le.Vav	[the] heart	H3824 →
דַּוָּֽי׃	da.Vai	[is] faint	H1742 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 5:3
O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than…
leads to
- Jeremiah 7:28
  Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from…
- Jeremiah 2:30
  “I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”
- Isaiah 9:13
  But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.
Through
Ezekiel 24:13
Because of the indecency of your uncleanness I tried to cleanse you, but you would not be purified from your filthiness. You will not be pure again until My wrath against you has subsided.
leads to
- Ezekiel 22:24
  “Son of man, say to her, ‘In the day of indignation, you are a land that has not been cleansed, upon which no rain has fallen.’
- Ezekiel 5:13
  And when My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath against them, I will be appeased. And when I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, the LORD,…
- Ezekiel 16:42
  So I will lay to rest My wrath against you, and My jealousy will turn away from you. Then I will be calm and no longer angry.
- Ezekiel 8:18
  Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”
- Zephaniah 3:2