Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Isaiah 3:25
Thy men shall fall by the sword, the defenders of Jerusalem a prey of war, and thy mighty in the war.
Thy men shall fall by the sword, the defenders of Jerusalem a prey of war, and thy mighty in the war.
Verse Isaiah 3:25. _THY MIGHTY MEN._] For גבורתך _geburathech_ an ancient MS. has גבורך _gibborech_. The true reading, from the _Septuagint,_ _Vulgate, Syriac_, and _Chaldee_, seems to be גבוריך _gibb...
THY MEN - This is an address to Jerusalem itself, by a change not uncommon in the writings of Isaiah. In the calamities coming on them, their strong men should be overcome, and fall in battle....
CHAPTER 3 Judgments upon the Rulers and the Daughters Of Zion 1. _The judgment against the rulers (Isaiah 3:1)_ 2. _Jerusalem's sad condition (Isaiah 3:8)_ 3. _Jehovah's message (Isaiah 3:10)_ 4. The...
ISAIAH 3:16 TO ISAIAH 4:1. THE LUXURIOUS LADIES OF JERUSALEM AND THEIR DOOM. As Amos attacked the women of Samaria for their luxury, made possible through the oppression of the poor (Amos 4:1), so Isa...
MIGHTY. might. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "mighty ones"....
THY MEN SHALL FALL, &C.— We have in these verses the second evil; the desolation and widowhood of the matrons and virgins. See Lamentations 2:21. We may observe, that the prophet here does not address...
b. THE WOMEN TEXT: Isaiah 3:16 to Isaiah 4:1 16 Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, a...
Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. THY MEN - of Jerusalem....
1. STAY AND THE STAFF] A prophecy of famine: cp. Isaiah 3:7, as the clause following explains. But if the latter clause is a gloss then 'stay and staff' would refer to the classes upon which the stabi...
26. THY, HER] the pronouns refer to. Zion....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 3 DESPAIR IN *JERUSALEM V1 See what the *Lord (commander of...
At that time, enemies will attack and destroy *Jerusalem. God’s judgement will show itself in all that the people suffer. • ‘Women’ is more accurately ‘daughters’ and so probably means all the inhabi...
(25-26) THY MEN...(26) HER GATES... — The feminine pronoun in both verses points to the daughter of Zion as representing her many daughters. As in Lamentations 1:1, and as in the JUDÆA CAPTA medals th...
מְתַ֖יִךְ בַּ † חֶ֣רֶב יִפֹּ֑לוּ וּ גְבוּרָתֵ֖ךְ...
CHAPTER II THE THREE JERUSALEMS 740-735 B.C. Isaiah 2:1; Isaiah 3:1; Isaiah 4:1 AFTER the general introduction, in chapter 1, to the prophecies of Isaiah, there comes another portion of the book, o...
VANITY AND SELFISH LUXURY CONDEMNED Isaiah 3:13-26; Isaiah 4:1-6 This paragraph opens with the majestic figure of Jehovah Himself, who arises to judge the misrulers and plead the cause of the poor. T...
The prophet now deals with judgment in greater detail, and shows how it will proceed against the rulers and against the women. The judgment in the case of the rulers is to be the destruction of true g...
Thy men shall fall by the (t) sword, and thy mighty in the war. (t) Meaning that God will not only punish the women but their husbands who have permitted this dissoluteness and also the commonwealth...
_Fairest. They shall not be spared. (Calmet) --- "As they have perished by their beauty, their fairest," &c. (Chaldean)_...
The chapter ends, as it began, and as one might reasonably suppose would be the close; if sin reigns, sorrow must follow: for the wages of sin is death. Blessed be God, who hath taken occasion, from t...
25._Thy men shall fall by the sword. _He directs his discourse to Jerusalem and to the whole kingdom of Judah; for, after having demonstrated that the whole body is infected with a plague, and that no...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 2, 3, AND 4. Thus re-established, Zion, the mountain of Jehovah, will be the centre of blessing and peace to all the nations (Isaiah 2:1-4). This puts the inv...
THY MEN SHALL FALL BY THE SWORD,.... Of the Romans; which would be a punishment to the women for their pride and luxury, being deprived thereby of their husbands: AND THY MIGHTY IN THE WAR; of Vespas...
Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. Ver. 25. _Thy men shall fall by the sword._] For suffering and favouring the women's excesses, such as are today naked breasts and shoulder...
_Thy men shall fall_, &c. We have in these verses the second evil; the desolation and widowhood of the matrons and virgins: see Lamentations 2:21. But we must observe, that the prophet here does not a...
MIGHTY: _ Heb._ might...
16-26 The prophet reproves and warns the daughters of Zion of the sufferings coming upon them. Let them know that God notices the folly and vanity of proud women, even of their dress. The punishments...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Isaiah 3:25 men H4962 fall H5307 (H8799) sword H2719 mighty H1369 war H4421 Thy men -...
CONTENTS: The coming desolations of Jerusalem because of sin and the judgment of sinners. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Whatever evil befalls sinners, it is of their own procuring. Those who...
Isaiah 3:1. _Behold, the Lord doth take away from Jerusalem the whole stay of bread._ This threatening is understood of the Chaldean invasion in the reign of Jechoniah, and after the death of king Jos...
FEMALE PRIDE AND LUXURY Isaiah 3:16, Isaiah 4:1. _Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, &c._ We have here a terrible denunciation of female pride and luxury. Consider— I...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 3:1 GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON JERUSALEM. The general denunciations against Israel of the two preceding chapters are here turned especially against Jerusalem. God will deprive her of all h...
For, behold, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, the mighty men, and the man of war, the judge...
2 Chronicles 29:9; Amos 9:10; Jeremiah 11:22; Jeremiah 14:18;...