Catholic Public Domain Version
"For what reason shall I continue to strike you, as you increase transgressions? The entire head is feeble, and the entire heart is grieving. "
— Isaiah 1:5, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.”
“Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ”
“Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.”
“Why do you insist on being battered? Why do you continue to rebel? Your head has a massive wound, your whole heart is sick.”
“For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.”
“Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.”
“Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.”
Listen, O heavens, and pay attention, O earth, for the Lord has spoken. I have nurtured and raised children, but they have spurned me.
An ox knows his owner, and a donkey knows the manger of his lord, but Israel has not known me, and my people have not understood.
Woe to a sinful nation, a people burdened by iniquity, a wicked offspring, accursed children. They have abandoned the Lord. They have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel. They been taken away backwards.
For what reason shall I continue to strike you, as you increase transgressions? The entire head is feeble, and the entire heart is grieving.
From the sole of the foot, even to the top of the head, there is no soundness within. Wounds and bruises and swelling sores: these are not bandaged, nor treated with medicine, nor soothed with oil.
Your land is desolate. Your cities have been set ablaze. Foreigners devour your countryside in your sight, and it will become desolate, as if devastated by enemies.
And the daughter of Zion will be left behind, like an arbor in a vineyard, and like a shelter in a cucumber field, and like a city being laid to waste.