Teks -- Isaiah 1:6 (NET)

1:6 From the soles of your feet to your head, there is no spot that is unharmed. There are only bruises, cuts, and open wounds. They have not been cleansed or bandaged, nor have they been treated with olive oil.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: Isa 1:6

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.

JFB: Isa 1:6 - wounds

Judicially inflicted (Hos 5:13).

JFB: Isa 1:6 - mollified with ointment

The art of medicine in the East consists chiefly in external applications (Luk 10:34; Jam 5:14).

Clarke: Isa 1:6 - They have not been closed, etc. "It hath not been pressed,"etc.

They have not been closed, etc. "It hath not been pressed,"etc. - The pharmaceutical art in the East consists chiefly in external applications: accordingly the prophet’ s images in this place are all taken from surgery. Sir John Chardin, in his note on Pro 3:8, "It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones,"observes that "the comparison is taken from the plasters, ointments, oils, and frictions, which are made use of in the East upon the belly and stomach in most maladies. Being ignorant in the villages of the art of making decoctions and potions, and of the proper doses of such things, they generally make use of external medicines."- Harmer’ s Observations on Scripture, vol. 2 p. 488. And in surgery their materia medica is extremely simple, oil making the principal part of it. "In India,"says Tavernier, "they have a certain preparation of oil and melted grease, which they commonly use for the healing of wounds."Voyage Ind. So the good Samaritan poured oil and wine on the wounds of the distressed Jew: wine, cleansing and somewhat astringent, proper for a fresh wound; oil, mollifying and healing, Luk 10:34. Kimchi has a judicious remark here: "When various medicines are applied, and no healing takes place, that disorder is considered as coming immediately from God.

Of the three verbs in this sentence, one is in the singular number in the text; another is singular in two MSS., (one of them ancient), חבשה chubbeshah ; and the Syriac and Vulgate render all of them in the singular number.

Calvin: Isa 1:6 - From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it

6.From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it Here he proceeds with the same comparison, and repeats the same statement; for certainly those who explain the former part of the verse, as referring to punishments, do not sufficiently consider the remaining part of the context. If we shall admit that a nation corrupted by vices is compared to a diseased body, what is the meaning of the words which immediately follow, that the wounds have not been bound up or mollified with ointment ? It is plain that the Prophet speaks of afflictions by which the nation had almost wasted away, and that he adduces this long-continued weakness as a proof of hardened impenitence. He calls it a putrifying sore, from which diseased matter is continually flowing, as if some concealed fountain were perpetually sending forth an additional supply of venom. By this comparison he shows that the wound is incurable, because that supply cannot be stopped. All this is prodigiously heightened by affirming that no remedies have been applied; for the three metaphors which he joins together — they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment — have all the same meaning that the nation, without any hope of relief, without comfort, without remedy, is reduced to such a state of distress, that in such punishments the utmost severity of God is openly displayed.

TSK: Isa 1:6 - the sole // bruises // they have // ointment

the sole : Job 2:7, Job 2:8; Luk 16:20,Luk 16:21

bruises : 2Ch 6:28, 2Ch 6:29; Psa 77:2; Jer 6:14 *marg. Jer 30:12; Nah 3:19

they have : Job 5:18; Psa 38:3-5; Jer 6:14, Jer 8:21, Jer 8:22, Jer 33:6; Hos 5:12, Hos 5:13; Mal 4:2; Mat 9:12; Luk 10:34

ointment : or, oil

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Isa 1:6 - From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it // They have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment

From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it you have been all of you punished, from the highest to the lowest, from the worst to the best.

They have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment I have suffered you to lie under your maladies for a time, without applying any remedies, to try whether the length and continuance of your affliction might not work that cure which the strength of it could not do, but all in vain.

Haydock: Isa 1:5-7 - Sad // Enemies

Sad. This was spoken after Ozias had given way to pride, when the Ammonites, &c., began to disturb Juda, (4 Kings xv. 37., and 2 Paralipomenon xxvii. 7.) under Joathan, who was a good prince, but young. (Calmet) ---

Enemies. At the last siege, (St. Jerome) or rather when Jerusalem was taken by the Chaldeans. (Calmet) ---

Many, from the highest to the lowest, had prevaricated: but God always preserved his Church. (Worthington)

Gill: Isa 1:6 - From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it // but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores // They have not been closed // neither bound up // neither mollified with ointment

From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it,.... Every member of the body politic was afflicted in one way or another, or sadly infected with the disease of sin; see Psa 28:3. So the Targum,

"from the rest of the people, even unto the princes, there is none among them who is perfect in my fear;''

see Dan 9:8.

but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores; to which either public calamities on a city or nation may be compared, Hos 5:13 or the sins and transgressions both of single persons, and of whole bodies of men, Psa 38:5. The Targum is,

"they are all stubborn and rebellious, they are defiled with sins as an ulcerous plaster.''

They have not been closed; that is, the wounds and sores have not been healed; or "they have not been pressed" or "squeezed" ^c, in order to get the purulent matter out of them:

neither bound up; with bands, after the matter is squeezed out, and a plaster laid on:

neither mollified with ointment; which is used for the supplying and healing of wounds; see Luk 10:34. The sense either is, that they were not reformed by their afflictions; or that they did not repent of their sins, nor seek to God for healing and pardon, nor make use of any means for their more healthful state and condition. The Targum paraphrases the words thus,

"they do not leave their haughtinesses, nor are they desirous of repentance, nor have they any righteousness to protect them.''