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Verse Isaiah 1:21. _BECOME A HARLOT_] See before, the Discourse on the
Prophetic Style; and see Lowth's Comment on the place, and De Sacr.
Poes. Hebr. Prael. xxxi....
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HOW IS - This is an expression of deploring, or lamenting. It
indicates that that had occurred which was matter of grief. The
prophet had stated the principles of the divine government; had urged
the...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
The reader will find that every chapter has been analyzed as to its
contents. We have not made copious annotations, because the three
lectures on the book of Isaiah as found a...
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A complete poem, of uncertain date, in elegiac rhythm. How has the
city once loyal to Yahweh become faithless to her husband! Her silver
has become dross, her wine adulterated. Her princes rebel again...
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IS. [is it that she]....
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HOW IS THE FAITHFUL CITY BECOME AN HARLOT— Though the Lord, in the
preceding part of the chapter, had suggested to the wicked and the
hypocrites a method of returning to his favour, yet he foresaw tha...
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2. THE JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED Isaiah 1:21-31
a. REASON FOR JUDGMENT, THE CORRUPT CITY
TEXT: Isaiah 1:21-23
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How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of
justice! righteousness lodg...
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JEHOVAH'S ARRAIGNMENT OF HIS PEOPLE
This chapter is general in character, and much of it (e.g. Isaiah
1:10) might refer to almost any period. This general character of the
prophecy renders it especial...
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AN HARLOT] figuratively expressing the faithlessness, through its
idolatry, of the nation which had been betrothed to God: cp. Exodus
34:15; Deuteronomy 31:16. JUDGMENT] i.e. justice, as in Isaiah 1:1...
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True religion is a relationship of love with God. That love for God
will affect all people’s relationships with each other. Water that
someone adds to *wine affects all the *wine. So lack of love for...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 1
WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT
V1 Messages about Judah and *Jerus...
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HOW IS THE FAITHFUL CITY BECOME AN HARLOT!... — The opening word, as
in Lamentations 1:1, is the key-note of an elegiac wail, which opens a
new section. The idea of prostitution as representing aposta...
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אֵיכָה֙ הָיְתָ֣ה לְ זֹונָ֔ה קִרְיָ֖ה
נֶאֱמָנָ֑ה...
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CHAPTER I
THE ARGUMENT OF THE LORD AND ITS CONCLUSION
Isaiah 1:1 -His General Preface
THE first chapter of the Book of Isaiah owes its position not to its
date, but to its character. It was publishe...
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A NATION PURGED OF DROSS BY DISASTER
Isaiah 1:21-31
The great lover of our souls does not abandon His people even when
they spurn the first overtures of His appealing pity. Though they
refuse to yiel...
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Isaiah was a prophet to Judah. He exercised his ministry wholly within
her borders, and with a view to her correction and comfort. His
burdens of the nations were uttered concerning those nations whic...
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How is the (d) faithful city become an harlot! it was full of
judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now (e) murderers.
(d) That is, Jerusalem, which had promised happiness to me, as a wife
to her...
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Under these figures of speech, are represented the sad fall of our
nature. It forms in language a beautiful, though in reality, an awful
account. But, Reader, painful as it is to know, yet it is profi...
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21._How is the faithful city become an harlot _! In order to make the
rebuke more forcible, and the crime of the people more shocking, in
having thus departed from God and from all uprightness, he cri...
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Isaiah 1 begins with a testimony to the sad condition of the people.
They were all wounds and corruption. It was useless to chastise them
any more. Their ceremonies were an abomination to Jehovah. He...
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HOW IS THE FAITHFUL CITY BECOME A HARLOT!.... The city of Jerusalem,
in which were the temple, and the pure worship of God, and was in the
tribe of Judah, which ruled with God, and was very faithful w...
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How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment;
righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
Ver. 21. _How is the faithful city._] Here beginneth, as some think,
a new sermon; a...
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_How is the faithful city_ Jerusalem, which in the reign of former
kings was faithful to God; _become a harlot_ Filled with idolatry,
called whoredom in the Scriptures. _It was full of judgment_, &c....
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The Lord's Complaint against Jerusalem...
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How is the faithful city, Jerusalem with its representative
inhabitants, formerly excelling in faithfulness to Jehovah, BECOME AN
HARLOT, given to spiritual adultery or idolatry! IT WAS FULL OF
JUDGME...
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21-31 Neither holy cities nor royal ones are faithful to their trust,
if religion does not dwell in them. Dross may shine like silver, and
the wine that is mixed with water may still have the colour...
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HOW, a note of admiration at so strange, and sad, and sudden a change,
IS THE FAITHFUL CITY, Jerusalem, which in the reign of former kings
was faithful to God, BECOME AN HARLOT is filled with idolatry...
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Isaiah 1:21 faithful H539 (H8737) city H7151 harlot H2181 (H8802) full
H4392 justice H4941 Righteousness H6664 lodged...
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A FURTHER DESCRIPTION OF THEIR STATE BEFORE GOD (ISAIAH 1:21).
Isaiah 1:21
‘How is the faithful city,
Become a prostitute?
She who was full of discerning judgment.
Righteousness lodged in her,
B...
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GOD'S PURPOSE FOR THE FUTURE (ISAIAH 1:21).
The call having been made to Israel for response, God describes their
present state and guarantees that in the end He will bring their
transformation about...
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ISAIAH OUTLINES THE MESSAGE HE IS BRINGING (ISAIAH 1:1).
This introductory message is also presented in balanced chiastic form.
a He calls on Creation to be aware of God's judgment on His people
(Is...
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CONTENTS: Charge against Israel for their ingratitude and
degeneration. Call to repentance and reformation.
CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah.
CONCLUSION: The backslidings of those who have professed relations...
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Isaiah 1:1. _The vision._ What the prophet saw with the eyes of his
mind, concerning the state of Judah and Jerusalem, his ministry being
chiefly confined to the kingdom of Judea.
_Isaiah, the son of...
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_How is the faithful city become an harlot_
THE FAITHFUL CITY A HARLOT
A dirge in dirge metre over Jerusalem.
“Harlot” is unfaithful wife. In Isaiah “unfaithfulness” is
declension from social and c...
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_Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken_
GOD FINDS VINDICATION IN NATURE
I well remember two funerals going out of my house within a few brief
months during my residence in...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 1:1 Introduction: “Ah, Sinful Nation!” The
prophet rebukes God’s people and calls them to obey God’s word. He
promises miraculous grace beyond judgment....
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MORAL DECLENSION
Isaiah 1:21. _How is the faithful city become an harlot!_ [430] _It
was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers_
[433] Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mix...
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AN ILLUSTRIOUS INHABITANT
Isaiah 1:21. _Righteousness lodged in it_.
I. A HIGH COMMENDATION. Righteousness lodged in the city—not merely
visited it as a passing guest, but dwelt in it as a permanent...
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PART I.—EARLIER PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH (CH. 1-35.)
SECTION I.—THE GREAT ARRAIGNMENT (Isaiah 1:1.).
EXPOSITION
Isaiah 1:1
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The book of Isaiah is a marvelous book of prophecy. Of course, it is
the longest book of prophecy in the Bible, and it would seem that God
gave to Isaiah a clearer vision of the redemptive work of Jes...
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2 Chronicles 19:9; 2 Samuel 8:15; Acts 7:52; Ezekiel 16:1; Ezekie
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The city — Jerusalem, which in the reign of former kings was
faithful to God. An harlot — Is filled with idolatry. Murderers —
Under that one gross kind, he comprehends all sorts of unrighteous men
an...