Isaiah 57:4 - Exposition

Against whom do ye sport yourselves? The idolatrous Israelites here addressed, no doubt, made a mock of the few righteous who were still living among them, and vexed their souls, as his fellow-towns-men did the soul of "just Lot" ( 2 Peter 2:7 ). They "made wide the mouth" at them, and "drew out the tongue" in derision (comp. Psalms 22:7 ; Psalms 35:21 ). The prophet asks, "Against whom do ye do this? Is it not rather against God, whose servants these men are, than against them?" Are ye not children of transgression? rather, are ye not , yourselves , children of apostasy ? and therefore more truly objects of scorn than they ? A seed of falsehood. Idols were viewed by Isaiah as "lies" ( Isaiah 45:20 ; cf. Romans 1:25 ; Revelation 22:15 ). Idolaters were therefore "a seed of falsehood"—men who put their trust in a lie.