Isaiah 1:8 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 1:2-9

We will hope to meet with a brighter and more pleasant scene before we come to the end of this book; but truly here, in the beginning of it, every thing looks very bad, very black, with Judah and Jerusalem. What is the wilderness of the world, if the church, the vineyard, has such a dismal aspect as this? I. The prophet, though he speaks in God's name, yet, despairing to gain audience with the children of his people, addresses himself to the heavens and the earth, and bespeaks their attention... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 1:8

And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in the vineyard ,.... The Targum is, "after they have got in the vintage.' A cottage in the vineyard was a booth, as the word F5 כסכה ως σκηνη , Sept. signifies, which was erected in the middle of the vineyard for the keeper of the vineyard to watch in night and day, that the fruit might not be hurt by birds, or stolen by thieves, and was a very, lonely place; and when the clusters of the vine were gathered, this cottage or booth... 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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:1-31

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 1:2-9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 1:8

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

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

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:1-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:1-31

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:4-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:5-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:8

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

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