Isaiah 1:13-15 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 1:10-15

Here, I. God calls to them (but calls in vain) to hear his word, Isa. 1:10. 1. The title he gives them is very strange; You rulers of Sodom, and people of Gomorrah. This intimates what a righteous thing it would have been with God to make them like Sodom and Gomorrah in respect of ruin (Isa. 1:9), because that had made themselves like Sodom and Gomorrah in respect of sin. The men of Sodom were wicked, and sinners before the Lord exceedingly (Gen. 13:13), and so were the men of Judah. When the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 1:13

Bring no more vain oblations ,.... As all such were, which were offered up without faith in Christ, in hypocrisy, and with dependence on them for pardon and atonement, and particularly when put an end to by the sacrifice of Christ; see Matthew 15:9 . The Targum renders it, "an oblation of robbery"; see Isaiah 60:8 . incense is an abomination to me ; instead of being of a sweet smell. This was burnt on the altar of incense, and put upon the sacrifices, Exodus 30:1 was typical of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 1:14

Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth ,.... The Targum is, "my Word abhorreth;' the Messiah, the essential Word. These are the same as before. They are a trouble unto me ; as they were kept and observed, either when they should not, or in a manner unbecoming: I am weary to bear them ; because of the sins with which they made him to serve, Isaiah 43:24 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 1:15

And when ye spread forth your hands ,.... That is, in prayer, this being a prayer gesture: hence the Targum paraphrases it, "and when the priests spread out their hands to pray for you.' I will hide mine eyes from you ; will not look upon them, nor regard their prayer; see Lamentations 3:42 . yea, when ye make many prayers ; as the Scribes and Pharisees did in Christ's time, and thought to be heard for their much speaking, like the Gentiles, Matthew 6:7 . I will not hear ;... read more

Adam Clarke

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

Adam Clarke

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:10-20

The prophetic strain. Isaiah had gone only a very little way in his testimony when he broke into the true prophetic strain. The prophets were God's witnesses against the mere shows and semblances of piety, and for the reality of godliness and virtue; they lived to expose the false and to expound the true, to pierce with keen edged sword that which was hollow and rotten, and to commend with glowing zeal that which was sound and good. Here we have a deliverance which evidently came hot from a... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 1:10-15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 1:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 1:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 1:15

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

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

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:1-31

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:10-15

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:10-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:10-20

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