George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 28:14
Men, who make a parade of your knowledge, (Haydock) to turn the most sacred things into ridicule.
Men, who make a parade of your knowledge, (Haydock) to turn the most sacred things into ridicule.
WHEREFORE ... - This verse commences a direct address to the scoffing and scornful nation, which is continued to the close of Isaiah 28:22. It is addressed particularly to the rulers in Jerusalem, as...
3. THE SIX WOES OF THE PROPHET, JUDGMENT RUINS AND RESTORATION GLORIES TO COME (28-35) CHAPTER 28 The First Woe and the Message of Assurance 1. _Ephraim addressed (Isaiah 28:1)_ 2. _Jerusalem equall...
JERUSALEM ALSO IS THREATENED WITH DESTRUCTION. But Jerusalem like Ephraim reels with intoxication, the priests and prophets especially. The prophet is not steady in his vision, the priest when pronoun...
_ye scornful men_ Better: SCOFFING MEN. The "scoffer" (_lêç_, a word almost confined to Pss. and Prov.) represents the last degree of ungodliness, open contempt of religion. The phrase here is applied...
There is again a _literary_connexion with what precedes; although the passage is probably a summary of an independent discourse. The prophet's aim is to impress on his opponents the disastrous consequ...
WHEREFORE, HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD, &C.— The prophet, about to describe the temporal and external punishment in these verses, addresses the teachers and elders of the people, and in a strong manner...
2. STABILITY TEXT: Isaiah 28:14-29 14 Wherefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem: 15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and...
Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. YE SCORNFUL MEN - (note, Isaiah 28:9.)...
This chapter must be assigned (Isaiah 28:1) to a date prior to the capture of Samaria by the Assyrians (722 b.c.) and fall of the northern kingdom. 1-6. Samaria's luxury and self-indulgence pave the...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 28 The next section of the Book of Isaiah is from Chapter 28 to Chapter 33. These Cha...
The fate of Samaria (Israel) should have warned the leaders of Judah not to make the same mistake. False security is no security. TRUE SECURITY V16 Now listen to what the *Lord God says. ‘See, I am...
YE SCORNFUL MEN, THAT RULE THIS PEOPLE... — The last words emphasise the fact that the men who derided the prophet in their worldly wisdom were found among Hezekiah’s chief princes and counsellors, th...
לָכֵ֛ן שִׁמְע֥וּ דְבַר ־יְהוָ֖ה אַנְשֵׁ֣י לָצֹ֑ון...
BOOK 3 PROPHECIES FROM THE ACCESSION OF HEZEKIAH TO THE DEATH OF SARGON 727-705 B.C. THE prophecies with which we have been engaged (Chapter s 2-10:4) fall either before or during the great Assyrian...
TRUTH THE ONLY REFUGE Isaiah 28:14-29 In the beginning of Hezekiah's reign the Jewish leaders had made an alliance with Assyria, on whom they relied to protect them against any and all foes. But the...
Here begins the third and last circle of the first division of the book. It consists of a series of prophecies concerning the chosen people and the world. In this chapter we have a graphic revelation...
These are very awful verses, and enough to make the ears of everyone that heareth them to tingle. And what must the end be of scorners, mockers of God's word, and despisers of his threatenings?...
14._Wherefore hear ye the word of the Lord. _He goes on to address to them still stronger reproof, and at the same time mingles with it a consolation in order to encourage the hearts of the godly. Whi...
Chapter 28 sets before us the first elements of these final scenes in the history of this wonderful people. The scourge comes from the north. Ephraim is invaded as by an overflowing torrent, by a temp...
WHEREFORE HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD, YE SCORNFUL MEN,.... Men of scorn and mockery, that scoffed and mocked at the word of God, as in the preceding verse Isaiah 28:13; or at the threatenings of punish...
Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which [is] in Jerusalem. Ver. 14. _Wherefore hear the word of the Lord._] Stand forth and hear your doom, ye that jeer when...
_Wherefore hear, ye scornful men_ Who make a mock at sin, and at God's word and threatenings, and who doubt not that by your crafty counsels, and human efforts, you shall escape God's judgments; who _...
THE FALSE QND THE TRUE REFUGE...
Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, those who despised and mocked the prophet's warning, THAT RULE THIS PEOPLE WHICH IS IN JERUSALEM, the capital being named for the entire Southern...
5-15 The prophet next turns to Judah, whom he calls the residue of his people. Happy are those alone, who glory in the Lord of hosts himself. Hence his people get wisdom and strength for every servic...
YE SCORNFUL MEN; which make a mock at sin, and at God's words and threatenings; and doubt not by your witty devices, and by your wicked practices, to escape God's judgments, of which we read in the ne...
Isaiah 28:14 hear H8085 (H8798) word H1697 LORD H3068 scornful H3944 men H582 rule H4910 (H8802) people...
ISAIAH STERNLY WARNS ABOUT THE THREATENING FUTURE IF THEY WILL NOT LOOK TO GOD'S SURE FOUNDATION (ISAIAH 28:14). The leaders of Judah reply that they are not afraid of his threats because they have go...
CONTENTS: Woe of Ephriam due to drunkenness. Prediction of Assyrian captivity of Ephriam. Ephriam's fate a warning to Judah. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The glorious beauty and the plenty of the lan...
Isaiah 28:1. _The crown of pride._ Sebaste, the ancient Samaria, is situated on a long mount of an oval figure, having first a fruitful valley, and then a circle of hills running round about it. _Maun...
_Hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men_ ISAIAH’S RESPONSE The prophet replies that when the storm does sweep over the land, as it assuredly will, these “refuges of lies” will prove no shelter to...
SECTION VII. RENEWED DENUNCIATIONS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH (CH. 28-31.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 28:1 A WARNING TO SAMARIA. The prophet has now east his eagle glance
Chapter 28. Now the prophet turns to the local present issues. He is now... he's gone off down the road to the end of things. Now he comes back and he begins to speak of the Northern Kingdom, the majo...
Acts 13:41; Hosea 7:5; Isaiah 1:10; Isaiah 28:22; Isaiah 29:20;...