Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Isaiah 3:11
Woe unto the wicked! these heavy judgments are designed against them, and shall certainly find them out, though here they be mixed with the righteous.
Woe unto the wicked! these heavy judgments are designed against them, and shall certainly find them out, though here they be mixed with the righteous.
Verse Isaiah 3:11. _WO UNTO THE WICKED_] לרשע _lerasha_, the man who is, 1. Evil in his heart. 2. Evil in his purposes. 3. Evil in his life. As he is _wicked_, he does that which is _wicked_; and...
WO UNTO THE WICKED - To all the wicked - but here having particular reference to the Jews whom Isaiah was addressing. IT SHALL BE ILL WITH HIM - The word “ill” is the only word here in the original....
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...
JUDAH TO BE PUNISHED WITH ANARCHY. The date is uncertain. That it was early in the reign of Ahaz is a dubious inference from Isaiah 3:12. The pillars of society will be removed, and control will thus...
WOE. Figure of speech _Maledictio._ App-6. THE WICKED, &C.. a lawless evil one (_ra'a',_ App-44.), [it shall not be well]. Hebrew. _rasha'._ HANDS. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for...
DISCOURSE: 862 FINAL STATE OF MAN Isaiah 3:10. _Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked; it shall be ill with him: f...
CHAPTER THREE 3. THE VENGEANCE UPON DECADENCE Isaiah 3:1 to Isaiah 4:1 a. THE WEALTHY TEXT: Isaiah 3:1-15 1 For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah s...
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him. WOE UNTO THE WICKED, (IT SHALL BE) ILL (WITH HIM) - antithesis to "well" (): emphatic ellipsis. The H...
3:11 desert (a-13) Lit. 'reward.' see ver. 9....
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...
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...
Proud behaviour (verse 9) causes moral failures in words and deeds. Such failures must affect both personal life and national life. That is God’s law. GOD’S JUDGEMENT V13 As if he were standing in c...
אֹ֖וי לְ רָשָׁ֣ע רָ֑ע כִּֽי ־גְמ֥וּל יָדָ֖יו
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...
AN EXHORTATION TO HUMILITY AND REVERENCE Isaiah 2:12-22; Isaiah 3:1-12 If men will not repent, they must suffer. If they will not voluntarily put away their idols and sorceries, they will be compelle...
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...
How sweet and precious doth the former of these verses come in, after the preceding relation! And how bitter and alarming the latter! Reader, depend upon it, such will be the striking distinction in t...
_WORKING FOR GOD: THE END OF CHRISTIAN LIFE_ ‘Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for...
11._Woe unto the wicked! _It shall be ill with him. He brings forward this clause as a contrast to the former one; from which it may be easily inferred what was the design of the Prophet, namely, to c...
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...
WOE UNTO THE WICKED! [IT SHALL BE] ILL [WITH HIM],.... In time, and to eternity, in times of public calamity, and under all afflictions, and adverse dispensations of Providence; he has no God to go to...
Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him]: for the reward of his hands shall be given him. Ver. 11. _Woe to the wicked._] This sentence should ever sound in the wicked man's ears for a powerf...
Isa. 3:10, 11. What is contained in these two verses seems to be an introduction to what follows. Through the former part of this book, Isaiah proceeds in his preaching, to the end of chap. 35, agreea...
_Say ye to the righteous_ O ye priests and Levites, in your sermons and exhortations to the people; _that it shall be well with him_ Even when it is ill with the wicked, and with the nation in general...
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him, his will be a lamentable fate; FOR THE REWARD OF HIS HANDS, that which he earned by his evil deeds, SHALL BE GIVEN HIM. The godless will have no one to b...
GOD'S THREAT OF PUNISHMENT...
GIVEN HIM: _ Heb._ done to him...
10-15 The rule was certain; however there might be national prosperity or trouble, it would be well with the righteous and ill with the wicked. Blessed be God, there is abundant encouragement to the...
Isaiah 3:11 Woe H188 wicked H7563 ill H7451 reward H1576 hands H3027 given H6213 (H8735) Woe -...
WHAT MEN SOW THEY WILL REAP - A WISDOM SONG (ISAIAH 3:9). Isaiah 3:9 ‘Woe to them themselves, For they have rewarded themselves with evil. Say of the righteous that it is well, For they will eat...
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...
_Woe unto the wicked!--_ ALL THINGS CONSPIRE FOR EVIL TO THE SINNER As all events are to be made public under God’s moral government, it is for His own interest, as well as for the interest of His c...
_Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him_ RETRIBUTION OF THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED In this passage the Sovereign of the universe proclaims to all the subjects of His moral governm...
CHEERING WORDS AND SOLEMN WARNINGS Isaiah 3:10. _Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for they shall eat of the fruit of their own doings. Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill wit...
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 Corinthians 5:10; Ecclesiastes 8:13; Isaiah 48:22; Isaiah 57:20;...