Isaiah 1:21
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Purifying Judgment
1:21How tragic that the once-faithful city
has become a prostitute!52
She was once a center of53 justice,
fairness resided in her,
but now only murderers.54
Footnotes
- 52 Heb “How she has become a prostitute, the faithful city!” The exclamatory אֵיכָה (’ekhah, “how!”) is used several times as the beginning of a lament (see Lam 1:1; 2; 1; 4:1–2). Unlike a number of other OT passages that link references to Israel’s harlotry to idolatry, Isaiah here makes the connection with social and moral violations.
- 53 Heb “filled with.”
- 54 Or “assassins.” This refers to the oppressive rich and/or their henchmen. R. Ortlund (Whoredom, 78) posits that it serves as a synecdoche for all varieties of criminals, the worst being mentioned to imply all lesser ones. Since Isaiah often addressed his strongest rebuke to the rulers and leaders of Israel, he may have in mind the officials who bore the responsibility to uphold justice and righteousness.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
How the faithful city
has become a whore,
she who was full of justice!
Righteousness lodged in her,
but now murderers.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
See how the faithful city
has become a prostitute!
She once was full of justice;
righteousness used to dwell in her—
but now murderers!
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
The faithful town—
what an adulteress she has become!
She was once full of justice.
Righteousness once dwelt in her,
but now, murderers!
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NLTNew Living Translation
See how Jerusalem, once so faithful,
has become a prostitute.
Once the home of justice and righteousness,
she is now filled with murderers.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
How has a faithful city become like a whore?
Full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
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KJV 1900King James Version
How is the faithful city become an harlot!
It was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it;
But now murderers.
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