Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
5. Why should ye be stricken any more? Some render it, Upon what? or, On what part? and interpret the passage as if the Lord had said that he had not another scourge left; because so various are the methods by which he has attempted to bring them back to the path of duty, that no other way of chastising them remains to be tried.
The inanimate creatures, the lights of heaven, the fruitfulness of the earth, shame this stupid, senseless people into silence; they obey their Creator while Israel rebels. This is ingratitude of the highest kind: God nourished and exalted them as His children, and they turned against Him.
AI summary
Commenting on Isaiah 1:2-9
Why should ye be stricken any more? .... Or "for what are ye stricken again" (a)? with afflictions and chastisements, with which God smites his people by way of correction for their sins, Isa 57:17 and the sense is, either that they did not consider what they were afflicted for, that it was for their sins and transgressions; they thought they came by chance, or...