Isaiah 1:21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. Righteousness was not merely like a passing guest in the city, but she who came down from above had there fixed her permanent abode; there she used to tarry day and night, as if it were her home. When the prophet refers to former days, he has in his mind the times of David and Solomon, but especially those of Jehoshaphat, who (about 150 years before Isaiah appeared) restored the administration of justice which had fallen into neglect since the latter years of Solomon and the days of Rehoboam and Abijah, — a point to which the reformation of Asa had not extended, — and who reorganised all in the spirit of the law. (F. Delitzsch.) Parallel Verses KJV: How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. |
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