From the [a]sole of the foot unto the head, there is nothing whole therein, but wounds and swelling, and sores full of corruption: they have not been wrapped, [b]nor bound up nor mollified with oil.

Your land is waste: your cities are burnt with fire: strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate like the overthrow of [c]strangers.

And the daughter of [d]Zion shall remain like a cottage in a vineyard, like a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and like a besieged city.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:6 Every part of the body as well the least as the chiefest, was plagued.
  2. Isaiah 1:6 Their plagues were so grievous, that they were incurable, and yet they would not repent.
  3. Isaiah 1:7 Meaning, of them that dwell far off, which because they look for no advantage of that which remaineth destroy all before them.
  4. Isaiah 1:8 That is, Jerusalem.

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