Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 1:21

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

A Note of Admiration at so strange, and sad, and sudden a Change.

Ierusalem, which in the Reign of former Kings was faithful to God.

Is filled with Idolatry, which is commonly called Whoredom.

Judgment was duly and truly executed in all its Courts.

It was famous for being the Seat of Justice, which did not only pass through it, like a wayfaring Man, but had its setled abode in it.

Under that one gross kind he comprehends all sorts of unrighteous Men and Practices, as may be gathered by the opposition. Onely their Connivance at that horrid Crime of Murther is noted, to assure us, that other Crimes of a lower nature were not onely unpunished, but even encouraged.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word]. 2. 21.