7567. THE PROPHET ISAIAH
CHAPTER I
1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw upon Judah and Jerusalem....
2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for Jehovah speaketh: I have led forth sons and exalted them, and they have transgressed against me.
3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's stall: Israel doth not know, my people doth not understand.
4 Woe to a sinful nation; a people heavy with iniquity; a seed of evildoers, sons of corruption! who have forsaken Jehovah; they have provoked the Holy One of Israel, they have moved backward.
5 Why will ye be further smitten? will ye add backsliding: the whole head1 into sickness, and the whole heart is faint.
1 Schmidius here adds the word falleth.
6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; a wound, and a scab, and a fresh stroke; they have not been pressed out, and are not bound up; neither is there any softening with oil.
7 Your land a solitude, your cities burned with fire: your ground, strangers are devouring it in your presence; and a solitude, as the overthrowing by strangers;
8 For the daughter of Zion is left as a tent in a vineyard; as a hut in a place of cucumbers; as a city besieged.
9 Except Jehovah Sabaoth had left unto us a remnant as a small thing, we should have become as Sodom, we should have been rendered like unto Gomorrah.
The subject treated of in verses 2 to 9 is the corruption of the old church, and then, in verses 10 to 15, the abrogation of its rites. In the proximate sense, these verses treat of the Jews; in the more remote sense, of the Christians.
