Isa 1:5, 9:13, Jer 2:30 | JFB | STEP | 5. Why —rather, as Vulgate, "On what part." Image from a body covered all over with marks of blows ( ). There is no part in which you have not been smitten. head . . . sick, &c.—not referring, as it is commonly quoted, to their sins, but to the universality of their punishment. However, sin, the moral disease of the head or intellect, and the heart, is doubtless made its own punishment ( ). "Sick," literally, "is in a state of sickness" [GESENIUS ]; "has passed into sickness" [MAURER ].

Isaiah 1:5

5. Why—rather, as Vulgate, "On what part." Image from a body covered all over with marks of blows (Ps 38:3). There is no part in which you have not been smitten.

head . . . sick, &c.—not referring, as it is commonly quoted, to their sins, but to the universality of their punishment. However, sin, the moral disease of the head or intellect, and the heart, is doubtless made its own punishment (Pr 1:31; Jer 2:19; Ho 8:11). "Sick," literally, "is in a state of sickness" [GESENIUS]; "has passed into sickness" [MAURER].

Isaiah 9:13

13-17. Second strophe.

turneth not—the design of God's chastisements; not fulfilled in their case; a new cause for punishment (Jer 2:20; 5:3).

Jeremiah 2:30

30. (Jer 5:3; 6:29; Isa 1:5; 9:13).

your children—that is, your people, you.

your . . . sword . . . devoured . . . prophets— (2Ch 36:16; Ne 9:26; Mt 23:29, 31).