以赛亚书 1:1-9 CUNPSS

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 1:5

Why ... - The prophet now, by an abrupt change in the discourse, calls their attention to the effects of their sins. Instead of saving that they had been smitten, or of saying that they had been punished for their sins, he assumes both, and asks why it should be repeated. The Vulgate reads this: ‘Super quo - on what part - shall I smite you anymore?’ This expresses well the sense of the Hebrew - על־מה ‛al-meh - upon what; and the meaning is, ‘what part of the body can be found on which blows... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot ... - Or is we say, ‘from head to foot,’ that is, in every part of the body. There may be included also the idea that this extended from the lowest to the highest among the people. The Chaldee paraphrase is, ‘from the lowest of the people even to the princes - all are contumacious and rebellious.’No soundness - מתם methôm, from תמם tâmam, to be perfect, sound, uninjured. There is no part unaffected; no part that is sound. It is all smitten and sore.But wounds - The... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 1:7

Your country is desolate - This is the literal statement of what he had just affirmed by a figure. In this there was much art. The figure Isaiah 1:6 was striking. The resemblance between a man severely beaten, and entirely livid and sore, and a land perfectly desolate, was so impressive as to arrest the attention. This had been threatened as one of the curses which should attend disobedience; Leviticus 26:33 :And I will scatter you among the heathen,And will draw out a sword after you:And your... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 1:8

And the daughter of Zion - Zion, or Sion, was the name of one of the hills on which the city of Jerusalem was built. On this hill formerly stood the city of the Jebusites, and when David took it from them he transferred to it his court, and it was called the city of David, or the holy hill. It was in the southern part of the city. As Zion became the residence of the court, and was the most important part of the city, the name was often used to denote the city itself, and is often applied to the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 1:9

Except ... - It is owing entirely to the mercy of God, that we are not like Sodom. The prophet traces this not to the goodness of the nation, not to any power or merit of theirs, but solely to the mercy of God. This passage the apostle Paul has used in an argument to establish the doctrine of divine sovereignty in the salvation of people; see the note at Romans 9:29.The Lord - Hebrew Yahweh. Note Isaiah 1:2.Of hosts - צבאות tsebâ'ôth - the word sometimes translated “Sabaoth”; Romans 9:29;... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:1

Isaiah 1:1. The vision of Isaiah “It seems doubtful,” says Bishop Lowth, “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 appropriate it to the whole collection of prophecies delivered in the course of his ministry. Vitringa, to whom the world is... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:2

Isaiah 1:2. Hear, O heavens, &c. “God is introduced as entering upon a solemn and 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.” Bishop Lowth. See the same scene more fully displayed, Psalms 50:3-4. With the like invocation Moses begins... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:3

Isaiah 1:3. The ox knoweth his owner, &c. In these words the prophet amplifies “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 stupidest of all beasts; for there is scarce any more so than the ox and the ass. Yet these acknowledge their master; they know... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:4

Isaiah 1:4. Ah, sinful nation The prophet bemoans those who would not bemoan themselves; and he speaks with a holy indignation at their degeneracy, and with a dread of the consequences of it. A people laden with iniquity Laden, not with the sense of sin, as those described Matthew 11:28, but with the guilt and bondage of sin. A seed of evil- doers The children of wicked parents, whose guilt they inherit, and whose evil example they follow; children that are corrupted Hebrew, משׁחיתים... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:5-6

Isaiah 1:5-6. Why should ye be stricken any more It is to no purpose to seek to reclaim you by one chastisement after another; ye will revolt more and more I see you are incorrigible, and turn even your afflictions into sin. The whole head is sick, &c. The disease is mortal, as being in the most noble and vital parts, the very head and heart of the body politic, from whence the plague is derived to all the other members. “The end of God’s judgments, in this world, is men’s... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 1:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 1:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 1:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 1:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 1:9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:1

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:2

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:4

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:5-6

Group of Brands