Borrowing from the Song of Songs, Isaiah describes Judah the Bride from head to foot. He moves from head to heart to foot and back to head (1:5-6). Four body parts are mentioned (3 different, with “head” used twice). He is inspecting Judah to the four corners.
Instead of a beautiful and seductive bride, though, she has become filled with blemishes and oozing sores. The four body parts are matched by the fourfold description of her illness: wounds, bruises, puetrefying, sores (v. 6).
Judah has become completely unsound. The word is metom , and related to the root tamam , “to be complete.” She is imperfect, full of blemishes, and, unlike the Bride of the Song, wholly unsuitable as bridal food for Yahweh.
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