Text -- Isaiah 1:22 (NET)

1:22 Your silver has become scum, your beer is diluted with water.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Isa 1:22

¹ tn The pronoun is feminine singular; personified Jerusalem (see v. 21) is addressed.

² tn Or “dross.” The word refers to the scum or impurites floating on the top of melted metal.

³ sn The metaphors of silver becoming impure and beer being watered down picture the moral and ethical degeneration that had occurred in Jerusalem.