Isa 1:6 | JFB | STEP | 6. From the lowest to the highest of the people; "the ancient and honorable, the head, the prophet that teacheth lies, the tail." See . He first states their wretched condition, obvious to all ( ); and then, not previously, their irreligious state, the cause of it. wounds —judicially inflicted ( ). mollified with ointment —The art of medicine in the East consists chiefly in external applications ( ).

Isaiah 1:6

6. From the lowest to the highest of the people; "the ancient and honorable, the head, the prophet that teacheth lies, the tail." See Isa 9:13-16. He first states their wretched condition, obvious to all (Isa 1:6-9); and then, not previously, their irreligious state, the cause of it.

wounds—judicially inflicted (Ho 5:13).

mollified with ointment—The art of medicine in the East consists chiefly in external applications (Lu 10:34; Jas 5:14).