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James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Isaiah 3:1-26

GENERAL DISCOURSES The first five chapters of Isaiah form a natural division, to which, for want of a better title, we give that of General Discourses, or messages. The first is limited to chapter 1, the second covers chapters 2-4, and the third chapter 5. But first notice the introduction, Isaiah 1:1 . By what word is the whole book described? What genealogy of the prophet is given? To which kingdom was he commissioned, Israel or Judah? In whose reigns did he prophesy? Examine 2 Kings,... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Isaiah 3:1-26

Divine Judgments Isaiah 3:0 This is a chapter of judgments, and the judgments are given in detail. These judgments are said to have taken place within the gates of a city, even the city of Jerusalem. A tempest in a desert may have features of grandeur; but what of a tempest poured down with infinite fury upon the stately city, a city of palaces, temples, and treasuries of art? There the storm seems to be doubly furious and cruel. God made Jerusalem into a wilderness in the day of his wrath,... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Isaiah 3:12-15

Reader! do not fail to observe, both indeed in this place, and through the word of God at large, that amidst all the backslidings of Israel, the Lord still keeps up the remembrance of their relationship. The name is not lost; As for MY people, saith the Lord. And how doth the Lord expostulate with their enemies that cause them to stray: what mean ye, that ye beat my people? Precious Lord Jesus! and dost thou not plead with all our enemies in this way? And wilt thou not punish and confound them... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 3:10-15

10-15 The rule was certain; however there might be national prosperity or trouble, it would be well with the righteous and ill with the wicked. Blessed be God, there is abundant encouragement to the righteous to trust in him, and for sinners to repent and return to him. It was time for the Lord to show his might. He will call men to a strict account for all the wealth and power intrusted to and abused by them. If it is sinful to disregard the necessities of the poor, how odious and wicked a... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Isaiah 3:12-26

The Vanity of the Women of Jerusalem v. 12. As for My people, still looked upon by the Lord with loving regard, children, incompetent and ruthless youngsters, are their oppressors, and women, subject to whims and moods, rule over them. O My people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, the leaders becoming misleaders, and destroy the way of thy paths, devouring it by their false, erroneous preaching, so that the way of divine truth is no longer visible. v. 13. The Lord standeth up to... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Isaiah 3:1-15

b. The judgment against the eminent things in the human sphereIsaiah 2:22 to Isaiah 4:1a. THE JUDGMENT AGAINST GODLESS MENIsaiah 2:22 to Isaiah 3:1522          Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils:For wherein is he to be accounted of?1     For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts,Doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah21The stay and the staff,22The whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,2     The mighty man, and the man of war,The judge, and the prophet, and the... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Isaiah 3:13-26

Vanity and Selfish Luxury Condemned Isaiah 3:13-26 ; Isaiah 4:1-6 This paragraph opens with the majestic figure of Jehovah Himself, who arises to judge the misrulers and plead the cause of the poor. The prophet enumerates the trinkets of the women of Israel, who had given themselves up to luxury and corruption. Woman is the priestess and prophetess of the home and religion, and when she forsakes the level of spiritual influence for that of physical adornment, the salt has lost its savor and... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 3:1-26

The prophet now deals with judgment in greater detail, and shows how it will proceed against the rulers and against the women. The judgment in the case of the rulers is to be the destruction of true government and the substitution of incompetent administration, with chaos necessarily resulting. The reason for this, so far as the people are concerned, is the open sin into which they have been led by evil rulers. So far as Jehovah is concerned, He has the cause of the people in His heart, and is... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 3:12-15

The Failure Of The Leaders of the People (Isaiah 3:12-15 ). Isaiah 3:12-15 ‘As for my people, children are their oppressors (taskmasters), And women rule over them. O my people, those who should set you right cause you to err, And swallow up the way of your paths. Yahweh stands up to plead, And stands to judge the peoples. Yahweh will enter into judgment, With the elders of his people, and its princes. “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses. What do... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 3:13-15

Isaiah 3:13-Ezra : . Yahweh Judges the Rulers.— Probably an independent oracle, presumably, though not certainly, uttered early in Isaiah’ s career. Yahweh has taken up the cause of the wronged, and calls elders and princes to account. They are the keepers of the vineyard ( Isaiah 5:1-Judges :), but they have abused their position to their own profit; they crush Yahweh’ s people, and grind between the millstones the faces of the poor. Isaiah 3:13 . Isaiah would hardly speak of a judgment of... read more

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