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What good will it do to keep punishing you? You will continue to rebel. Your whole head and heart are already sick and aching.[a] From the bottom of your feet to the top of your head, every part of your body has wounds, cuts, and open sores. You have not taken care of them. Your wounds have not been cleaned and bandaged.

Your land is in ruins, and your cities are in flames. Your enemies have taken your land, and foreigners are taking what it produces. It looks like some foreigners destroyed it.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:5 Your whole … aching Or “Every head and heart is already sick and aching.”
  2. Isaiah 1:7 It looks … destroyed it Or “It looks like the land of the foreigners that was destroyed.” This might refer to civil war in Israel or to some time when God destroyed foreign nations, such as Sodom and Gomorrah.

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