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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 1:9

Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant ,.... This is an instance of the super abounding goodness of the Lord of hosts, as the Targum expresses it; that he should, in those very wicked and calamitous times, leave and reserve a few from being defiled with the sins of the age, and from being involved in the general calamity of it; which was true of the Christian Jews at the time of Jerusalem's destruction; for that this prophecy belongs to these times is clear from the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:1

The vision of Isaiah - It seems doubtful whether this title belongs to the whole book, or only to the prophecy contained in this chapter. The former part of the title seems properly to belong to this particular prophecy; the latter part, which enumerates the kings of Judah under whom Isaiah exercised his prophetical office, seems to extend it to the whole collection of prophecies delivered in the course of his ministry. Vitringa - to whom the world is greatly indebted for his learned labors... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:2

Hear, O heavens "Hear, O ye heavens" - God is introduced as entering into a public action, or pleading, before the whole world, against his disobedient people. The prophet, as herald or officer to proclaim the summons to the court, calls upon all created beings, celestial and terrestrial, to attend and bear witness to the truth of his plea and the justice of his cause. The same scene is more fully displayed in the noble exordium of Psalm 1:1-6 , where God summons all mankind, from east to... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:3

The ox knoweth - An amplification of the gross insensibility of the disobedient Jews, by comparing them with the most heavy and stupid of all animals, yet not so insensible as they. Bochart has well illustrated the comparison, and shown the peculiar force of it. "He sets them lower than the beasts, and even than the most stupid of all beasts, for there is scarcely any more so than the ox and the ass. Yet these acknowledge their master; they know the manger of their lord; by whom they are... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:4

Ah sinful nation "Degenerate" - Five MSS., one of them ancient, read משחתים moschathim , without the first י yod, in hophal corrupted, not corrupters. See the same word in the same form, and in the same sense, Proverbs 25:26 . Are corrupters "Are estranged" - Thirty-two MSS., five ancient, and two editions, read נזורו nazoru ; which reading determines the word to be from the root זור zur , to alienate, not from נזר nazar , to separate; so Kimchi understands it. See... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:5

Why should ye be stricken any more "On what part," etc.? - The Vulgate renders מה על al meh , super quo , (see Job 38:6 ; 2 Chronicles 32:10 ;), upon what part. And so Abendana on Sal. Den Melech: "There are some who explain it thus: Upon what limb shall you be smitten, if you add defection? for already for your sins have you been smitten upon all of them; so that there is not to be found in you a whole limb on which you can be smitten." Which agrees with what follows: "From the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:6

They have not been closed, etc. "It hath not been pressed," etc. - The pharmaceutical art in the East consists chiefly in external applications: accordingly the prophet's images in this place are all taken from surgery. Sir John Chardin, in his note on Proverbs 3:8 , "It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones," observes that "the comparison is taken from the plasters, ointments, oils, and frictions, which are made use of in the East upon the belly and stomach in most... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:7

At the end of the verse, זרים zarim . This reading, though confirmed by all the ancient versions, gives us no good sense; for "your land is devoured by strangers; and is desolate, as if overthrown by strangers," is a mere tautology, or, what is as bad, an identical comparison. Aben Ezra thought that the word in its present form might be taken for the same with זרם zerem , an inundation: Schultens is of the same opinion; (see Taylor's Concord.); and Schindler in his Lexicon explains it... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:7-9

Your country is desolate - The description of the ruined and desolate state of the country in these verses does not suit with any part of the prosperous times of Uzziah and Jotham. It very well agrees with the time of Ahaz, when Judea was ravaged by the joint invasion of the Israelites and Syrians, and by the incursions of the Philistines and Edomites. The date of this prophecy is therefore generally fixed to the time of Ahaz. But on the other hand it may be considered whether those... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:8

As a cottage in a vineyard "As a shed in a vineyard" - A little temporary hut covered with boughs, straw, turf, or the like materials, for a shelter from the heat by day, and the cold and dews by night, for the watchman that kept the garden or vineyard during the short season the fruit was ripening, (see Job 27:18 ;), and presently removed when it had served that purpose. See Harmer's Observ. 1:454. They were probably obliged to have such a constant watch to defend the fruit from the... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 1:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:7-9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:8

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