Isaiah 1:6
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 (
Psalms 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 (
Daniel 9:8
) (
Jeremiah
8:10 )
[but] wounds, and bruises, and putrefying
sores;
to which either public calamities on a city or nation may be
compared, (
Hosea 5:13 ) or the sins
and transgressions both of single persons, and of whole bodies of
men, (
Psalms
38:5 Psalms
38:7 ) . 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"
F3, 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 (
Luke 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.''