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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:2-6
GOD 'S COMPLAINT AGAINST HIS PEOPLE . The groundwork of Isaiah's entire prophecy is Judah's defection from God. God's people have sinned, done amiss, dealt wickedly. The hour of vengeance approaches. Punishment has begun, and will go on, continually increasing in severity. National repentance would avert God's judgments, but the nation will not repeat. God's vengeance will fall, and by it a remnant will be purified, and return to God, and be his true people. In the present section... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:4-9
The prophet's enforcement of God's charge. God's words are so weighty, that they may well be few; the preacher's enforcement of them must needs be, comparatively speaking, lengthy. Isaiah, in addressing his erring countrymen, aimed at producing in them— I. CONVICTION OF DIN . For this purpose, he begins with an array of seven charges (verse 4), varying, as it were, the counts of the indictment: The first four are general, and seem to be little more than rhetorical variations of... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:5
Why should ye , etc.? Translate, Why will ye be still smitten , revolting more and more? or, Why will ye persist in rebellion , and so be smitten yet more? The Authorized Version does not express the sense, which is that suffering must follow sin—that if they still revolt, they must still be smitten for it—why, then, will they do so? Compare Ezekiel's "Why will ye die, O house of Israel?" ( Ezekiel 18:31 ). The whole head … the whole heart. Mr. Cheyne translates, "Every head … ... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:5
The foolishness of increasing Divine judgments. The plea of the prophet appears to be this: "You have run terrible lengths in sin; and you have seriously suffered from the consequences of sin; now why will you bring down fresh judgments upon your head through persisting in your infidelity" (comp. Ezekiel 18:31 )? So serious, indeed, had been the penalties of transgression already that there seemed to be no part of the body politic upon which another stroke might fall; new inflictions must... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:5-9
Sin in its hopelessness. I. THAT SIN IS MORE OR LESS RECLAIMABLE . Whatever we might have antecedently expected, we find practically, that there are those on whom Divine truth is far more likely to tell than it is on others. Thus Time, pleasure, the misuse of sacred opportunity,—these things indurate the soul and make it far less responsive than it once was; so that there are some that are more hopeless than others. II. THAT THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN UNCHARGED BY... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:6
From the sole of the foot even unto the head (comp. Job 2:7 ). From top to bottom, the body corporate is diseased throughout—there is no soundness in it (cf. Psalms 38:3 , Psalms 38:7 )—all is one wound, one livid bruise, one festering sore. Note the use of the singular number in the original. They have not been closed ; literally, they have not been pressed ; which is explained to mean (Aben Ezra, Kay) that they have not had the matter formed by suppuration pressed out of them. ... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:7
Your country is desolate. Metaphor is now dropped, and the prophet describes in strong but simple language the judgments of God, which have already followed the sins of the nation. First of all, their land is "a desolation." It has been recently ravaged by an enemy; the towns have been burnt, the crops devoured. There is nothing to determine who the enemy had been. Knobel supposes the Edomites and Philistines, who invaded Judaea in the time of Ahaz ( 2 Chronicles 28:17 , 2 Chronicles... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:8
The daughter of Zion. Not "the faithful Church" (Kay), but the city of Jerusalem, which is thus personified. Comp. Isaiah 47:1 , Isaiah 47:5 , where Babylon is called the "daughter of the Chaldeans;" and Lamentations 1:6 ; Lamentations 2:1 , Lamentations 2:4 , Lamentations 2:8 , Lamentations 2:10 , where the phrase here used is repeated in the same sense. More commonly it designates the people without the city ( Lamentations 2:13 ; Lamentations 4:22 ; Micah 3:8 , Micah... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:1-9
Jehovah arraigns his people. I. INGRATITUDE THE BASEST OF SINS . He, the Father, has been faithlessly forsaken by ungrateful sons. This is the worst form of ingratitude. "Filial ingratitude! Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand For lifting food to it?" ('King Lear.') It has been said that The wretch whom gratitude once fails to bind, To truth or honor let him lay no claim, But stand confess'd the brute disguised in man." But the brutes are grateful;... read more