Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 3:10
Say ye — O ye priests and Levites, that God will be their safeguard and portion.
Say ye — O ye priests and Levites, that God will be their safeguard and portion.
Verse Isaiah 3:10. _SAY YE TO THE RIGHTEOUS_] לצדיק _letsaddik_, the ל _lamed_ is added here by one MS. and the _Chaldee_. The righteous is the person, 1. Who fears God. 2. Departs from evil. 3. Wa...
SAY YE TO THE RIGHTEOUS - The meaning of this verse and the following is sufficiently plain, though expositors have given some variety of interpretation. They declare a great principle of the divine a...
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...
THE RIGHTEOUS. a righteous one....
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...
FOR THEY SHALL EAT THE FRUIT OF THEIR DOINGS— The certain consequence of righteousness is, by the divine determination, happiness either in this world or the next; as the contrary is the certain conse...
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...
Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. SAY YE TO THE RIGHTEOUS, THAT (IT SHALL BE) WELL (WITH HIM). The faithlessness of many is no p...
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...
אִמְר֥וּ צַדִּ֖יק כִּי ־טֹ֑וב כִּֽי ־פְרִ֥י מ
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...
(i) Say ye to the righteous, that [it shall be] well [with him]: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. (i) You that are godly be assured that God will defend you in the midst of these trouble...
Well. Jeremias (xxxix. 11.) was treated by the enemy with great respect. Septuagint, "having said, let us bind the just man, for he is troublesome, (Haydock) or displeasing (Calmet) to us. Hence they,...
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...
10._Say, it shall be well with the righteous _Before quoting the opinions of others, I shall point out the true meaning As punishments so severe commonly present to pious minds an exceedingly sharp te...
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...
SAY YE TO THE RIGHTEOUS, THAT [IT SHALL BE] WELL [WITH HIM],.... The Lord always has some righteous ones, in the worst of times, whom he can and does distinguish, single out, and take care of; and it...
Say ye to the righteous, that [it shall be] well [with him]: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Ver. 10. _Say ye to the righteous._] Tell them so from me, saith God, for their comfort and...
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...
Say ye to the righteous, to the few who are still found in the midst of the general decay, THAT IT SHALL BE WELL WITH HIM; FOR THEY SHALL EAT OF THE FRUIT OF THEIR DOINGS, their good works, the fruit...
GOD'S THREAT OF PUNISHMENT...
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...
SAY YE: God hath said it, and doth now by me say it; and you, O ye priests and Levites, say it in your sermons to the people. THEY SHALL EAT THE FRUIT OF THEIR DOINGS; let not them fear, for God will...
Isaiah 3:10 Say H559 (H8798) righteous H6662 well H2896 eat H398 (H8799) fruit H6529 doings H4611 Say ye
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...
_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...
Ecclesiastes 8:12; Ezekiel 18:9; Ezekiel 9:4; Galatians 6:7; Gal