Isaiah 1:11-18

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:11

To what purpose, etc. "What have I to do" - The prophet Amos has expressed the same sentiments with great elegance: - I hate, I despise your feasts; And I will not delight in the odour of your solemnities: Though ye offer unto me burnt-offerings And your meat-offerings, I will not accept: Neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your fatlings. Take away from me the noise of your songs; And the melody of your viols I will not hear. But let judgment roll down like waters; ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:12

When ye come to appear - Instead of לראות leraoth , to appear, one MS. has לראות liroth , to see. See De Rossi. The appearing before God here refers chiefly to the three solemn annual festivals. See Exodus 23:14 . Tread my courts (no more) - So the Septuagint divide the sentence, joining the end of this verse to the beginning of the next: Πατειν την αυλην μου, ου προσθησεσθε ; "To tread my court ye shall not add - ye shall not be again accepted in worship." read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:13

The new moons and Sabbaths "The fast and the day of restraint" - ועצרה און aven vaatsarah . These words are rendered in many different manners by different interpreters, to a good and probable sense by all; but I think by none in such a sense as can arise from the phrase itself, agreeably to the idiom of the Hebrew language. Instead of און aven , the Septuagint manifestly read צום tsom , νηστειαν , "the fast." This Houbigant has adopted. The prophet could not well have omitted... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:15

When ye spread - The Syriac, Septuagint, and a MS., read בפרשכם beparshecem , without the conjunction ו vau . Your hands "For your hands" - Αἱ γαρ χειρες - Sept. Manus enim vestrae -Vulg. They seem to have read ידיכם כי ki yedeychem . read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:16

Wash you - Referring to the preceding verse, "your hands are full of blood;" and alluding to the legal washing commanded on several occasions. See Leviticus 14:8 , Leviticus 14:9 , Leviticus 14:47 . read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:17

Relieve the oppressed "Amend that which is corrupted" - חמוץ אשרו asheru chamots . In rendering this obscure phrase I follow Bochart, (Hieroz. Part i., lib. ii., cap. 7), though I am not perfectly satisfied with this explication of it. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:18

Though your sins be as scarlet - שני shani , "scarlet or crimson," dibaphum, twice dipped, or double dyed; from שנה shanah , iterare , to double, or to do a thing twice. This derivation seems much more probable than that which Salmasius prefers from שנן shanan , acuere , to whet, from the sharpness and strength of the color, οξυφοινικον ; תלע tela , the same; properly the worm, vermiculus , (from whence vermeil), for this color was produced from a worm or insect which... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:1-31

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:10-15

THE PEOPLE 'S PLEA NO EXCUSE , BUT AN AGGRAVATION OF THEIR GUILT . The prophet supposes the people, by the mouth of their rulers, to meet the charge of rebellion with an appeal to the fact that they maintain all the outward ordinances of religion, as required by the Lawn and are therefore blameless. This draws from him a burst of indignant eloquence, which the Holy Spirit directs him to put, mainly, into the mouth of God ( Isaiah 1:11-15 ), denouncing such a pretence of... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:10-17

The people's plea considered. The leading men of Jerusalem are supposed to reply to the charge of Jehovah, pointing to the elaborate manner in which his worship is kept up. And Jehovah rejects their plea with scorn. I. THE DIVINE INDIGNATION AGAINST WICKEDNESS . No more scathing denunciation could there be than to term the rulers of the holy city "chiefs of Sodom," and the people in general "people of Gomorrah." Those were names of horror and shame. Christ used them in the same... read more

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