The [a]ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel hath not known: my people hath not understood.

Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity: a [b]seed of the wicked, corrupt children: they have forsaken the Lord: they have provoked the [c]Holy one of Israel to anger: they are gone backward.

Wherefore should ye be [d]smitten anymore? for ye fall away more and more: the whole [e]head is sick, and the whole heart is heavy.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:3 The most dull and brute beasts do more acknowledge their duty toward their masters, than my people do toward me, of whom they have received benefits without comparison.
  2. Isaiah 1:4 They were not only wicked as were their fathers, but utterly corrupt, and by their evil example infected others.
  3. Isaiah 1:4 That is, him that sanctifieth Israel.
  4. Isaiah 1:5 What availeth it to seek to amend you by punishment, seeing the more I correct you, the more ye rebel?
  5. Isaiah 1:5 By naming the chief parts of the body, he signifieth that there was no part of the whole body of the Jews free from his rods.

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