Isaiah 1:21

What does Isaiah 1:21 mean?

A plain-English look at Isaiah 1:21 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

How hath a faithful city become a harlot? I have filled it <FI>with<Fi> judgment, Righteousness lodgeth in it--now murderers.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness used to lodge in it, but now murderers.

Context

v.20but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.

v.21This passage

v.22Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ezekiel 16:1

    Again the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

  • Psalms 46:4

    There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.

  • Jeremiah 3:1

    They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah.

  • Acts 7:52

    Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;

  • Psalms 48:1

    Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised, In the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

  • Isaiah 57:3

    But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.

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