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John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 3:5

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

Ver. 5. And the people shall be oppressed, one by another.] The greater devouring the lesser, as fishes do. How should it be otherwise, when there is either no government, or not that which is good; but all things turned, as here, topsy turvy, without any respect to age, order, or dignity, and

“ Scinditur ineertum studia in contraria vulgus. ” - Virg.

This dissension is the mother of dissolution, saith Nazianzen. This dissipation and perversion of order and manners is the forerunner of utter desolation and subversion.

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See also Isaiah 3:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THE PEOPLE SHALL BE OPPRESSED - This describes the state of anarchy and confusion which would exist under the reign of children and babes Isaiah 3:4, when all law would be powerless, and all right...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    CHILD. a youth, or. boy. as in Isaiah 3:12....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND THE PEOPLE SHALL BE OPPRESSED, &C.— _Shall deal hardly one by another,_ &c. See the 38th chapter of Jeremiah throughout, and his Lamentations 4:16....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable. THE PEOPLE SH...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    True religion will produce a true society (see Isaiah 2:1-5). But Isaiah saw that actual affairs in *Jerusalem were the opposite. • God’s judgement often happens by means of society’s circumstances....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE PEOPLE SHALL BE OPPRESSED... — The words paint the worst form of the decadence of an Eastern kingdom. All is chaotic and anarchic; a fierce struggle for existence; the established order of society...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ נִגַּ֣שׂ הָ עָ֔ם אִ֥ישׁ בְּ אִ֖ישׁ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And the people shall be (e) oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the elder, and the base against the honourable. (e) For lac...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _People. They were divided, whether they should continue to obey Nabuchodonosor, or listen to the Egyptians. Ismael slew Godolias, Jeremias xli._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The prophet plainly shows by these verses, that the sin is universal. All ranks and all orders of the people are involved in the same sin, and consequently the same punishment. It is a melancholy stat...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    5._The people will oppress every man his neighbor _He describes the utmost confusion, which was about to overtake the Jews, when order was destroyed or relaxed; and this will happen to all nations, as...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE PEOPLE SHALL BE OPPRESSED, EVERYONE BY ANOTHER, AND EVERYONE BY HIS NEIGHBOUR,.... There being no governors, or such as were unfit for government, no decorum was kept and observed, but a mere...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And I will give children to be their princes_ Either, 1st, Children in age, whose minority corrupt ministers of state commonly abuse, to the producing of much evil: or, 2d, In understanding and exper...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    GOD'S THREAT OF PUNISHMENT...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor, all respect for the God-given rights of others having vanished; THE CHILD SHALL BEHAVE HIMSELF PROUDLY AGAINST T...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 God was about to deprive Judah of every stay and support. The city and the land were to be made desolate, because their words and works had been rebellious against the Lord; even at his holy temp...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE PEOPLE SHALL BE OPPRESSED, by the command or connivance of such childish rulers. THE CHILD SHALL BEHAVE HIMSELF PROUDLY AGAINST THE ANCIENT, AND THE BASE AGAINST THE HONOURABLE; foolish and unwort...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 3:5 people H5971 oppressed H5065 (H8738) one H376 another H376 one H376 neighbor H7453 child H5288 insolent...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ALL THAT JERUSALEM/JUDAH DEPEND ON IS TO BE TAKEN AWAY SO THAT SOCIETY WILL DISINTEGRATE TOWARDS EVEN MORE EVIL (ISAIAH 3:1 A). Having covered world judgment Isaiah now brings it home to the local sit...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And the people shall be oppressed_ TYRANNY The dissolution of good order and political confusion. Oppression and pride everywhere prevail. (_R. Macculloch._) STATE CHAOS There is a natural relati...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I will give children to be their princes_ PUERILE GOVERNMENT Probably an abstract term used for a concrete--puerilities or childishnesses for childish persons_._ (_J. A. Alexander._) JUVENILE GOV...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 3:1 The false and sinful glories of men and women, which are temporary, are replaced by the eternal glory of the Lord (Isaiah 4:6)....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 3:2 God judges his people by removing their good leaders and replacing them with irresponsible BOYS and INFANTS....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Kings 2:23; 2 Samuel 16:5; Amos 4:1; Ecclesiastes 10:5; Ezekiel

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Oppressed — By thy command or permission of such childish rulers....

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