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Isaiah 1:21

How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

KJV

Quomodo facta est meretrix civitas fidelis, plena judicii ? justitia habitavit in ea, nunc autem homicidæ.

Vulgate

Πῶς ἐγένετο πόρνη πόλις πιστὴ Σειών, πλήρης κρίσεως; ἐν ᾗ δικαιοσύνη ἐκοιμήθη ἐν αὐτῇ, νῦν δὲ φονευταί.

LXX

How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

ASV

אֵיכָה֙ הָיְתָ֣ה לְ/זוֹנָ֔ה קִרְיָ֖ה נֶאֱמָנָ֑ה מְלֵאֲתִ֣י מִשְׁפָּ֗ט צֶ֛דֶק יָלִ֥ין בָּ֖/הּ וְ/עַתָּ֥ה מְרַצְּחִֽים

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֵ֚יךְ
'yk
particle · 82×
זוֹנָ֔ה
zvnh
verb · 92×
י
y
noun · 422×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יָלִ֣ין
ylyn
verb · 86×
מְלֵאָ֣ה
ml'h
noun · 8×
נֶאֱמָ֔ן
n'mn
verb · 108×
עַתָּ֗ה
'th
adverb · 433×
צֶ֑דֶק
tsdq
noun · 116×
קִרְיָ֖ה
qryh
noun · 29×
רֹצֵ֔חַ
rtsch
verb · 47×

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz. Isaiah opens with a severe indictment of Judah and Jerusalem. The ox knows his owner and the ass his master's crib, but Israel does not know. God's people, laden with iniquity, have forsaken the Lord. Their sacrifices and feast days are an abomination because they are offered without true repentance. Yet the chapter closes with the gracious…
1. Concerning Those Who Asked Him to Show Them a Sign from Heaven. And the Sadducees and Pharisees came, and tempting Him kept asking Him to show them a sign from heaven. Matthew 16:1 The Sadducees and Pharisees who disagreed with each other in regard to the most essential truths, — for the Pharisees champion the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, hoping that there will …

Cross-references

  • Acts 24:25 — And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
  • Ezek 16:15 — But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
  • Ezek 22:1 — Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
  • Hab 1:4 — Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
  • Hos 2:5 — For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my
  • Isa 1:26 — And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
  • Isa 52:1 — Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
  • Isa 57:3 — But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
  • Isa 59:3 — For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
  • Isa 59:14 — And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
  • Jer 2:20 — For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
  • Lam 4:1 — How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
  • Luke 18:3 — And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.
  • Ps 12:1 — Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
  • Rev 17:1 — And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
  • Zech 8:3 — Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.
  • Zeph 3:1 — Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!