Isaiah 57:3 - Exposition

Draw near hither . Approach, to hear the reprimand which ye so well deserve. Ye sons of the sorceress; rather, of a sorceress. Judah herself, the nation, is the" sorceress" and "adulteress," whose individual children are summoned to draw near. She is an adulteress; for she has transgressed against the mystic marriage-tie which bound her to Jehovah (see Isaiah 54:5 , and the comment ad lot. ) . She is also a " sorceress ," since she has bewitched her children, and given herself up to magical as well as to idolatrous practices ( 2 Chronicles 33:6 ). Seed of the adulterer and the whore; rather, seed of an adulteress , and that thyself committest whoredom. The congenital tendency has broken out into act. The Israel addressed is as "adulterous," i.e. idolatrous, as the Israel of former times.