Isaiah 1:2

Hear, heavens. Figure of speech Apostrophe . App-6 . Reference to Pentateuch ( App-92 ). It commences like the Song of Moses (Deuteronomy 32:1 . See notes, p. 283), and is the commentary on it. Note the connection of the two books, Isaiah the necessary sequel to Deuteronomy. This verse was put on the title-page of early English Bibles, claiming the right of all to hear what Jehovah hath spoken.

for. Note the reason given.

the Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 .

hath spoken: i.e., articulately. Not Isaiah. All modern criticism is based on the assumption that it is a human book: and that prediction is human impossibility (which we grant); and this ends in a denial of inspiration altogether. Against this God has placed 2 Peter 1:21 .

spoken. Jehovah is the Eternal One: "Who was, and is, and is to come". Hence, His words are, like Himself, eternal; and prophecy relates to the then present as well as to the future ; and may have a praeterist and a futurist interpretation, as well as a now present application to ourselves.

brought up. Compare Exodus 4:22 ; Deuteronomy 14:1 ; Deuteronomy 32:6 , Deuteronomy 32:18 , Deuteronomy 32:20 .

children = sons.

rebelled. Hebrew. pash'a . App-44 .

knoweth. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6 , for all that that knowledge implies.

not know. Compare Jeremiah 8:7 . All Israel's trouble came from the truth of this indictment. Compare Luke The trouble will all be removed when Isaiah 54:13 ; Isaiah 60:16 are fulfilled. Jeremiah 31:34 .Jeremiah 11:9 . Compare Jeremiah 9:23 ,

My People. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and My people".