Isaiah 1:8-31 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

Matthew Henry

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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 1:16-20

Though God had rejected their services as insufficient to atone for their sins while they persisted in them, yet he does not reject them as in a hopeless condition, but here calls upon them to forsake their sins, which hindered the acceptance of their services, and then all would be well. Let them not say that God picked quarrels with them; no, he proposes a method of reconciliation. Observe here, I. A call to repentance and reformation: ?If you would have your sacrifices accepted, and your... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 1:21-30

Here, I. The woeful degeneracy of Judah and Jerusalem is sadly lamented. See, 1. What the royal city had been, a faithful city, faithful to God and the interests of his kingdom among men, faithful to the nation and its public interests. It was full of judgment; justice was duly administered upon the thrones of judgment which were set there, the thrones of the house of David, Ps. 122:5. Men were generally honest in their dealings, and abhorred to do an unjust thing. Righteousness lodged in it,... 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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 1:9

Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant ,.... This is an instance of the super abounding goodness of the Lord of hosts, as the Targum expresses it; that he should, in those very wicked and calamitous times, leave and reserve a few from being defiled with the sins of the age, and from being involved in the general calamity of it; which was true of the Christian Jews at the time of Jerusalem's destruction; for that this prophecy belongs to these times is clear from the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 1:10

Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom ,.... Not literally, but mystically, meaning the governors of Judea; they and their people having sinned in like manner, and as openly, as the rulers of Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof; see Isaiah 3:9 and so the Targum paraphrases the words, "receive the word of the Lord, ye governors, whose works are evil like the governors of Sodom.' These are called to attend to the word of the Lord; either the Scriptures, which should be the rule of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 1:11

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord ,.... These people, though they neglected the weightier matters of the law, and the more substantial duties of religion, as did the Scribes and Pharisees in Christ's time, Matthew 23:23 yet were very diligent in the observance of the ceremonial law, and repeated their sacrifices almost without number, on which they placed all their trust and dependence; wherefore, to take off their confidence in these things, the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 1:12

When ye come to appear before me ,.... At the grand festivals of the passover, pentecost, and tabernacles, at which times all the males in Israel appeared before God, Exodus 23:17 . who hath required this at your hand ; either to appear at such times, these feasts being no more to be observed; or to offer the above sacrifices; these were not required of the Israelites when they first came out of Egypt, Jeremiah 7:22 nor were they necessary to appear before God with, or to introduce... 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

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

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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 1:16-20

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 1:21-30

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 1:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 1:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 1:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 1:12

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

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