Isaiah 1:6
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
Cross-references
Isaiah 5:7 identifies the wounds as the result of God seeking justice but finding bloodshed — the nation's moral corruption.
Luke 16:20's Lazarus, covered with sores, directly parallels the raw, unhealed wounds from head to foot.
Job 2:7 uses the same 'from sole to head' sores imagery, illustrating physical affliction as a parallel to Israel's spiritual condition.
Job 5:18 affirms God wounds and heals — contrasting with Israel's unhealed state here; God's healing power is available but not applied.
Malachi 4:2 promises healing from the 'sun of righteousness' — a contrast to Israel's unhealed wounds, pointing to future restoration.
Psalm 38:3-5 uses identical 'no soundness' and festering wounds language for personal sin — a parallel to Israel's corporate spiritual sickness.
Nahum 3:19 echoes this incurable wound — Nineveh's fatal injury parallels Israel's unhealed condition under judgment.
Hosea 5:13 uses wound/sickness language and says human help cannot heal — directly parallels the unhealed state and futile remedies here.
Jeremiah 33:6 promises future health and healing — a contrast to the current unhealed condition in Isaiah, showing God's restorative plan.
Jeremiah 6:14 uses the same wound-healing metaphor, condemning those who treat the people's wound superficially.
Jeremiah 8:22 asks about balm and physician — directly questioning why Israel's wounds remain unhealed, echoing this verse's lack of treatment.
Jeremiah 30:14 calls the wound incurable, reinforcing the severity of Israel's unhealed condition.
2 Samuel 14:25 describes Absalom as physically flawless from head to foot, the perfect opposite of the diseased state described here.
Jeremiah 30:13 echoes the same condition: no one pleads your cause, no healing for your sore — identical unhealed wound imagery.
Jeremiah 5:3 explains that God struck them yet they refused correction — the reason their wounds remain unhealed.
Psalm 147:3 depicts God binding up wounds—the healing that Israel lacks, contrasting divine restoration with human neglect.
Deuteronomy 28:35 uses the identical phrase 'sole of foot to top of head' for covenant curses, which Isaiah directly echoes to depict Israel's judgment.
Ezekiel 47:12 describes leaves for healing — a contrast to the unhealed wounds here, pointing to future restoration.
Psalm 38:5 says wounds stink and fester because of folly—a direct parallel to the untreated sores here, both linking physical decay to sin.
Ezekiel 30:21 uses the same image of a broken limb not bound up, but for Egypt — parallel metaphor of unhealed judgment.
Micah 6:13 uses the same wound metaphor for divine judgment, reinforcing that Israel's sickness is a result of sin.
Job 7:5 describes flesh covered with worms and pus—a comparable physical affliction that mirrors the open sores and neglect in Isaiah.
Matthew 9:12 states the sick need a doctor — this metaphor of spiritual sickness parallels Israel's need for healing from their sinful condition.
Revelation 16:2 echoes the sores as divine punishment, now in the end-time bowls of wrath, showing judgment pattern.