Isaiah 1:5 “Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head ha…”

Isaiah 1:5

Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

World English Bible

Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

American Standard Version

Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Geneva Bible 1599

Wherefore shoulde ye be smitten any more? for ye fall away more and more: the whole head is sicke, and the whole heart is heauie.

Darby Translation

Why should ye be smitten any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Young's Literal Translation

Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostasy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart [is] sick.

Bible in Basic English

Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.

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Cross references

“should”

Ezekiel 24:13 Jeremiah 5:3 Jeremiah 2:30 Jeremiah 6:28–30 Hebrews 12:5–8 Isaiah 9:13

Ezekiel 24:13 · BSB

Because of the indecency of your uncleanness I tried to cleanse you, but you would not be purified from your filthiness. You will not be pure again until My wrath against you has subsided.

Jeremiah 5:3 · BSB

O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

Jeremiah 2:30 · BSB

“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”

Jeremiah 6:28–30 · BSB

All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.

Hebrews 12:5–8 · BSB

And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.

Isaiah 9:13 · BSB

But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.

“ye will”

Revelation 16:8–11 Jeremiah 9:3 2 Chronicles 28:22

Revelation 16:8–11 · BSB

Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given power to scorch the people with fire.

Jeremiah 9:3 · BSB

“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.

2 Chronicles 28:22 · BSB

In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.

“the whole”

Daniel 9:8–11 Jeremiah 5:31 Zephaniah 3:1–4 Isaiah 1:23 Nehemiah 9:34 Jeremiah 5:5

Daniel 9:8–11 · BSB

O LORD, we are covered with shame—our kings, our leaders, and our fathers—because we have sinned against You.

Jeremiah 5:31 · BSB

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?

Zephaniah 3:1–4 · BSB

Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!

Isaiah 1:23 · BSB

Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.

Nehemiah 9:34 · BSB

Our kings and leaders and priests and fathers did not obey Your law or listen to Your commandments and warnings that You gave them.

Jeremiah 5:5 · BSB

I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.

Also

Isaiah 31:6 Isaiah 33:24

Isaiah 31:6 · BSB

Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.

Isaiah 33:24 · BSB

And no resident of Zion will say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell there will be forgiven of iniquity.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.

6From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness— only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.

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