Isa 1:5-7 | MHM | STEP | v. 5 : Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint . God asks why they keep suffering punishment if they will not change. Their continued rebellion makes their situation worse. Their whole nation is like a sick person, with no part healthy or strong.

‏ Isaiah 1:5-7

v. 5: Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. God asks why they keep suffering punishment if they will not change. Their continued rebellion makes their situation worse. Their whole nation is like a sick person, with no part healthy or strong.

v. 6: From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. The people are spiritually and morally sick from top to bottom. Their sins are like untreated wounds, getting worse because they have not turned to God for healing and forgiveness.

v. 7: Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. Because of their sins, disaster has come upon the land. Their cities have been destroyed, and foreigners have taken over. Everything is ruined, showing the results of turning away from God.