Isaiah 3:14

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 3:9-15

Here God proceeds in his controversy with his people. Observe, I. The ground of his controversy. It was for sin that God contended with them; if they vex themselves, let them look a little further and they will see that they must thank themselves: Woe unto their souls! For they have rewarded evil unto themselves. Alas for their souls! (so it may be read, in a way of lamentation), for they have procured evil to themselves, Isa. 3:9. Note, The condition of sinners is woeful and very deplorable.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 3:14

The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof ,.... Both civil and ecclesiastical; the princes, chief priests, and elders of the people, who set themselves and took counsel together against the Lord and his Christ; would not suffer the people to be gathered to him; sought his life, and at last took it away. For ye have eaten up the vineyard , or burnt it F16 בער־תאם "succendistis", Vatablus, Montanus. ; the house of Israel, and of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 3:14

The vineyard. "My vineyard" - - כרמי carmi , Septuagint, Chaldee, Jerome. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 3:8-15

The reasons of judgment. In man's sufferings they must own they are subject to the reasonable rule of him who is eternal Reason. I. ANTAGONISM TO THE DIVINE RULE . In word and deed. 1. In current talk, writing, speechifying, it is difficult to detect where the falsehood lies. It consists in the suppression of certain important sides of truth, and in putting forward interested, partial views of things. The literature of a people cannot be sound, if it be sunk in greed of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 3:8-26

THE CAUSE OF THE JUDGMENT SHOWN TO BE THE SINS OF JERUSALEM . 1. The sins of the men . ( Isaiah 3:8-15 ). These are declared to be partly sins of speech, but mainly sins of act ( Isaiah 3:8 ). Of sins of speech the only one specified is the open and shameless declaration of their wickedness ( Isaiah 3:9 ). Under the head of sins of act are enumerated The enumeration of the sins is mixed with exhortation and comment in such a way as to give rise to the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 3:12-15

Penalty, natural and supernatural. We learn— I. THAT THE NATURAL RESULT OF FOLLY IS TO BE GOVERNED BY THOSE WHO HAVE NO RIGHT TO RULE . 1. The nation suffers this penalty . As with Judah now ( Isaiah 3:12 ), so with each and every country in its turn and in its way. Unmanliness, frivolity, wickedness among the people, will be reflected in the sovereign power. A nation that lives supremely for material enrichment, or for military conquest, or... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 3:14

The ancients … the princes. These were the chief oppressors. They delivered the judgments, and it was by them that justice was perverted. Jehovah therefore enters specially into judgment with them. For ye have eaten up; rather, So ye have eaten up . Jehovah is supposed to address the unjust judges. He reproaches them with having "eaten up," or rather "scorched up," his vineyard, i.e. Israel (comp. Isaiah 5:1-7 ), and taxes them with having still their ill-gotten gains in their... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 3:14

With the ancients ... - With the old men, the counselors.Ye have eaten up the vineyard - Hebrew ‘Ye have burnt up’ - that is, you have oonsumed or destroyed it. By the vineyard is represented the Jewish republic or people; Psalms 80:9-13; compare the notes at Isaiah 5:1-7. The princes and rulers had, by their exactions and oppressions, ruined the people, and destroyed the country.The spoil of the poor - The “plunder” of the poor; or that which you have taken from the poor by exactions and... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 3:13-15

Isaiah 3:13-15. The Lord standeth up to plead He will shortly and certainly stand up as a judge to inquire into the cause, and to give sentence; and standeth to judge the people To call the wicked into judgment, and to denounce upon them as they deserve; or to defend and deliver his own people, judging for them, as this phrase often means. Will enter into judgment with the ancients The princes or rulers, as it is explained in the next clause, often called elders, because they were... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 3:1-26

Ungodly society (3:1-4:1)Isaiah now gives a picture of the end of a society characterized by human self-sufficiency and self-centredness. The government collapses, resulting in a shortage of basic necessities such as food and water. Judah had previously depended for leadership on a variety of people, good and bad - statesmen, soldiers, judges, prophets, magicians - but now no one can be found to lead the country (3:1-3). Power falls into the hands of immature youths, and lawlessness results.... read more

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