Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 1:5

5 Why should ye be stricken any more , ye will revolt more and more : the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint .

It is to no purpose to seek to reclaim you by one Chastisement after another: and therefore I will utterly forsake and destroy you at once.

I see you are incorrigible, and turn even your afflictions into sin.

Your disease is mortal, as being in the most noble and vital parts, the very head and heart of the body politick, from whence the plague is derived to all the other Members, as it follows. And this is to be understood either, 1. Of their sins; or rather, 2. Of their miseries. Which best suits, 1. with the foregoing words, this being added as a reason why it was in vain to strike them any more, or to expect any amendment that way, because he had stricken them already, and that very terribly, even in their head and heart, whose wounds are most dangerous, and yet they were not at all better for it. 2. With vers. 7, 8. where this Metaphor is so explained.

Marginal references: Heb. increase revolt.