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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 3:9-15

Here God proceeds in his controversy with his people. Observe, I. The ground of his controversy. It was for sin that God contended with them; if they vex themselves, let them look a little further and they will see that they must thank themselves: Woe unto their souls! For they have rewarded evil unto themselves. Alas for their souls! (so it may be read, in a way of lamentation), for they have procured evil to themselves, Isa. 3:9. Note, The condition of sinners is woeful and very deplorable.... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 3:16-26

The prophet's business was to show all sorts of people what they had contributed to the national guilt and what share they must expect in the national judgments that were coming. Here he reproves and warns the daughters of Zion, tells the ladies of their faults; and Moses, in the law, having denounced God's wrath against the tender and delicate woman (the prophets being a comment upon the law, Deut. 28:56), he here tells them how they shall smart by the calamities that are coming upon them.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 3:13

The Lord standeth up to plead ,.... His own cause, or the cause of his son against the Jews that rejected him, and the Scribes and Pharisees that led them to an ill opinion of him: and standeth to judge the people . Both expressions show indignation and resentment; he rises up out of his place, and stands up in defence of his cause, and avenges himself on a wicked and ungrateful people: it seems to have reference to the judgments of God on the people of the Jews, the tribes of Israel. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 3:14

The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof ,.... Both civil and ecclesiastical; the princes, chief priests, and elders of the people, who set themselves and took counsel together against the Lord and his Christ; would not suffer the people to be gathered to him; sought his life, and at last took it away. For ye have eaten up the vineyard , or burnt it F16 בער־תאם "succendistis", Vatablus, Montanus. ; the house of Israel, and of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 3:15

What mean ye, that ye beat my people to pieces ,.... Reduce them to the utmost poverty; so the Targum, "wherefore do ye impoverish my people?' as they did by exacting tithes of all that they possessed; by requiring large sums for their long prayers; and by various traditions they enjoined them to observe: and grind the faces of the poor ? either by smiting them on the cheek, as Christ, who became poor for our sakes, was smitten by them; or by bringing them into such low... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 3:16

Moreover the Lord saith, because the daughters of Zion are haughty ,.... The wives or daughters of the rulers, princes, or elders; these were "high", affected to look high and tall, and therefore stretched out their necks, and walked on tiptoes; or "were lifted up" with pride, which is the root and source of all the vanity expressed in their gesture and ornaments. And walk with stretched forth necks or "throats"; looking high, and above others, and upon them with contempt and disdain;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 3:17

Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion ,.... This is opposed to the lifting up of their heads in that haughty manner they did, and to the binding, and plaiting, and curling of their hair, which now will fall off, through the scab or leprosy upon them, or must be obliged to be shaven off. And the Lord will discover their secret parts ; the Vulgate Latin renders it, "their hair", which is their glory, 1 Corinthians 11:6 . The Targum is,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 3:18

In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet ,.... With which they made a tinkling as they went, Isaiah 3:16 it being about the shoe, and made a noise; or seeing the word used signifies "stocks", and is so rendered Proverbs 7:22 , it may design some sort of attire about the feet, as golden chains, as the Talmudists say F20 T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 63. 2. Maimon. in Misn. Sabbat, c. 6. sect. 4. , which being fastened to both, directed... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 3:19

The chains ,.... According to Kimchi and R. Levi ben Gersom on Judges 8:26 these were drop bottles, or vessels of gold, in which were put stacte or balsam; and the former says here, they were such in which balsam was put, and women hung about their necks; though, he observes, some interpret them of chains, which were made of small stones of bdellium; hence pure bdellium is called in the Arabic tongue אלנטף ; and so Jarchi renders the word "chains"; and they are called by this name,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 3:20

The bonnets ,.... This word is used sometimes for the tire of the heads of men, Ezekiel 24:17 and even for the bonnets of the priests, Exodus 39:28 . The Targum renders the word "crowns"; the Jewish women wore golden crowns on their heads, in the form of the city of Jerusalem, with which they might not go out on a sabbath day F2 Maimon. & Bartenora in ib. : and the ornaments of the legs ; and so the Targum, "the chains or bracelets of the feet;' with which Jarchi and... read more

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