(2) assumes that הכרת is from √ הכר (Job 19:3†), itself of most uncertain meaning (BDB); cp. 𝔊 αἰσχύνη. Some such meaning as the last would no doubt give a good parallel to the following line, and would be acceptable if it were philologically better supported: the whole v. would then mean: they are shameless as the men of Sodom in their sin. 9c, 10, 11. General moral reflections.—“The connection is certainly rather loose and … Isaiah is here merely putting together in writing leading ideas of