🕊️WEB · Isaiah 1:22
What does Isaiah 1:22 mean?
"Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water."
— Isaiah 1:22 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;
but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.
Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don’t judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: “Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself on my enemies;
and I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.
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