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.
From the sole of the foot even unto the head (there is) no soundness in it - From the lowest to the highest of the people: 'the ancient and honourable, the head; the prophet that teacheth lies, the tail.' See Isaiah 9:13-16. He first states their wretched condition, obvious to all (Isaiah 1:6-9); and then, not previously, their irreligious state, the cause of it.
Wounds - judicially inflicted (Hosea 5:13). they have not been closed ... neither mollified with ointment. The art of medicine in the East consists chiefly in external applications (Luke 10:34; James 5:14).