Wash you - Referring to the preceding verse, "your hands are full of blood;" and alluding to the legal washing commanded on several occasions. See Leviticus 14:8 , Leviticus 14:9 , Leviticus 14:47 . read more
Relieve the oppressed "Amend that which is corrupted" - חמוץ אשרו asheru chamots . In rendering this obscure phrase I follow Bochart, (Hieroz. Part i., lib. ii., cap. 7), though I am not perfectly satisfied with this explication of it. read more
Though your sins be as scarlet - שני shani , "scarlet or crimson," dibaphum, twice dipped, or double dyed; from שנה shanah , iterare , to double, or to do a thing twice. This derivation seems much more probable than that which Salmasius prefers from שנן shanan , acuere , to whet, from the sharpness and strength of the color, οξυφοινικον ; תלע tela , the same; properly the worm, vermiculus , (from whence vermeil), for this color was produced from a worm or insect which... read more
Ye shall eat the good of the land - Referring to Isaiah 1:7 ; : it shall not be "devoured by strangers." read more
Ye shall be devoured with the sword "Ye shall be food for the sword" - The Septuagint and Vulgate read תאכלכם tochalchem , "the sword shall devour you;" which is of much more easy construction than the present reading of the text. The Chaldee seems to read תאכלו אויב בחרב bechereb oyeb teachelu , "ye shall be consumed by the sword of the enemy." The Syriac also reads בחרב beehereb and renders the verb passively. And the rhythmus seems to require this addition. - Dr. Jubb. read more
Become a harlot - See before, the Discourse on the Prophetic Style; and see Lowth's Comment on the place, and De Sacr. Poes. Hebr. Prael. xxxi. read more
THE PEOPLE 'S PLEA NO EXCUSE , BUT AN AGGRAVATION OF THEIR GUILT . The prophet supposes the people, by the mouth of their rulers, to meet the charge of rebellion with an appeal to the fact that they maintain all the outward ordinances of religion, as required by the Lawn and are therefore blameless. This draws from him a burst of indignant eloquence, which the Holy Spirit directs him to put, mainly, into the mouth of God ( Isaiah 1:11-15 ), denouncing such a pretence of... read more
The people's plea considered. The leading men of Jerusalem are supposed to reply to the charge of Jehovah, pointing to the elaborate manner in which his worship is kept up. And Jehovah rejects their plea with scorn. I. THE DIVINE INDIGNATION AGAINST WICKEDNESS . No more scathing denunciation could there be than to term the rulers of the holy city "chiefs of Sodom," and the people in general "people of Gomorrah." Those were names of horror and shame. Christ used them in the same... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:15
When ye spread - The Syriac, Septuagint, and a MS., read בפרשכם beparshecem , without the conjunction ו vau . Your hands "For your hands" - Αἱ γαρ χειρες - Sept. Manus enim vestrae -Vulg. They seem to have read ידיכם כי ki yedeychem . read more