Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Isaiah 1:6

6. From the lowest to the highest of the people; "the ancient and honorable, the head, the prophet that teacheth lies, the tail." See Is 9:13-16. He first states their wretched condition, obvious to all (Is 1:6-9); and then, not previously, their irreligious state, the cause of it.

wounds--judicially inflicted (Ho 5:13).

mollified with ointment--The art of medicine in the East consists chiefly in external applications (Lu 10:34; Jas 5:14).