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Verse Isaiah 1:22. _WINE MIXED WITH WATER_] An image used for the
_adulteration_ of wines, with more propriety than may at first appear,
if what _Thevenot_ says of the people of the Levant of late ti...
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THY SILVER - The sentiment in this verse, as it is explained by the
following, is, thy princes and people have become corrupt, and
polluted. Silver is used here to denote what should have been more
va...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
The reader will find that every chapter has been analyzed as to its
contents. We have not made copious annotations, because the three
lectures on the book of Isaiah as found a...
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A complete poem, of uncertain date, in elegiac rhythm. How has the
city once loyal to Yahweh become faithless to her husband! Her silver
has become dross, her wine adulterated. Her princes rebel again...
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WINE. liquor, or drink. Hebrew. _saba'_. App-27....
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2. THE JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED Isaiah 1:21-31
a. REASON FOR JUDGMENT, THE CORRUPT CITY
TEXT: Isaiah 1:21-23
21
How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of
justice! righteousness lodg...
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Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
THY SILVER IS BECOME DROSS, THY WINE MIXED WITH WATER - Thy princes
and people are degenerate in solid worth ("silver," ; ; Ezekiel
22:18), an...
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JEHOVAH'S ARRAIGNMENT OF HIS PEOPLE
This chapter is general in character, and much of it (e.g. Isaiah
1:10) might refer to almost any period. This general character of the
prophecy renders it especial...
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MIXED] read, 'weakened.' The images describe the degeneracy of the
rulers; the best have become debased....
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True religion is a relationship of love with God. That love for God
will affect all people’s relationships with each other. Water that
someone adds to *wine affects all the *wine. So lack of love for...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 1
WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT
V1 Messages about Judah and *Jerus...
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THY SILVER IS BECOME DROSS... — The two images describe the
degeneracy of the rulers to whose neglect this disorder was due. (See
Notes on Jeremiah 6:28.) Hypocrisy and adulteration were the order of...
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כַּסְפֵּ֖ךְ הָיָ֣ה לְ סִיגִ֑ים
סָבְאֵ֖ךְ מָה֥וּל...
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CHAPTER I
THE ARGUMENT OF THE LORD AND ITS CONCLUSION
Isaiah 1:1 -His General Preface
THE first chapter of the Book of Isaiah owes its position not to its
date, but to its character. It was publishe...
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CHAPTER XIX
AT THE LOWEST EBB
Isaiah 1:1; Isaiah 22:1
IN the drama of Isaiah's life we have now arrived at the final act-a
short and sharp one of a few months. The time is 701 B.C., the
fortieth yea...
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A NATION PURGED OF DROSS BY DISASTER
Isaiah 1:21-31
The great lover of our souls does not abandon His people even when
they spurn the first overtures of His appealing pity. Though they
refuse to yiel...
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Isaiah was a prophet to Judah. He exercised his ministry wholly within
her borders, and with a view to her correction and comfort. His
burdens of the nations were uttered concerning those nations whic...
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Thy (f) silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
(f) Whatever was pure in you before, is now corrupt, though you have
an outward show....
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_Water. There is no sincerity in commerce. (Calmet) --- Teachers give
false interpretations of the law. (St. Jerome) --- Iniquity abounded
before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans and Roma...
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Under these figures of speech, are represented the sad fall of our
nature. It forms in language a beautiful, though in reality, an awful
account. But, Reader, painful as it is to know, yet it is profi...
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22._Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water _Isaiah
speaks metaphorically, and by two comparisons shows here, that though
the outward appearance of affairs was not openly overturned, yet...
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Isaiah 1 begins with a testimony to the sad condition of the people.
They were all wounds and corruption. It was useless to chastise them
any more. Their ceremonies were an abomination to Jehovah. He...
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THY SILVER IS BECOME DROSS,.... Meaning either that such persons, who
had the appearance of goodness, looked like genuine silver, were now
become reprobate, and, as the wicked of the earth, like dross...
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Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
Ver. 22. _Thy silver is become dross._] Heb., Drosses, a proverbial
kind of speech, deciphering apostasy. It is as if the prophet had
said, Ther...
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Thy silver, the princes and rulers, which formerly distinguished the
city, IS BECOME DROSS, THY WINE, the leaders and nobles, MIXED WITH
WATER, that is, the judges and rulers of the city had turned fr...
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The Lord's Complaint against Jerusalem...
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21-31 Neither holy cities nor royal ones are faithful to their trust,
if religion does not dwell in them. Dross may shine like silver, and
the wine that is mixed with water may still have the colour...
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Thou art woefully degenerated from thy former purity. If there be any
remainders of religion and justice in thee, they are mixed with many
and great corruptions....
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Isaiah 1:22 silver H3701 dross H5509 wine H5435 mixed H4107 (H8803)
water H4325
silver -...
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ISAIAH OUTLINES THE MESSAGE HE IS BRINGING (ISAIAH 1:1).
This introductory message is also presented in balanced chiastic form.
a He calls on Creation to be aware of God's judgment on His people
(Is...
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GOD'S PURPOSE FOR THE FUTURE (ISAIAH 1:21).
The call having been made to Israel for response, God describes their
present state and guarantees that in the end He will bring their
transformation about...
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A FURTHER DESCRIPTION OF THEIR STATE BEFORE GOD (ISAIAH 1:21).
Isaiah 1:21
‘How is the faithful city,
Become a prostitute?
She who was full of discerning judgment.
Righteousness lodged in her,
B...
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CONTENTS: Charge against Israel for their ingratitude and
degeneration. Call to repentance and reformation.
CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah.
CONCLUSION: The backslidings of those who have professed relations...
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Isaiah 1:1. _The vision._ What the prophet saw with the eyes of his
mind, concerning the state of Judah and Jerusalem, his ministry being
chiefly confined to the kingdom of Judea.
_Isaiah, the son of...
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_Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water._
SILVER
The silver represents the princes and lords, viewed with reference to
the nobility of mind associated with their nobility of birth and...
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_Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken_
GOD FINDS VINDICATION IN NATURE
I well remember two funerals going out of my house within a few brief
months during my residence in...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 1:1 Introduction: “Ah, Sinful Nation!” The
prophet rebukes God’s people and calls them to obey God’s word. He
promises miraculous grace beyond judgment....
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THE POSSIBLE DEGENERACY OF VALUABLE THINGS
Isaiah 1:22. _Thy silver is become dross_.
There are many valuable and good things in the world that through
varied causes are rendered comparatively usele...
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MORAL DECLENSION
Isaiah 1:21. _How is the faithful city become an harlot!_ [430] _It
was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers_
[433] Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mix...
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PART I.—EARLIER PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH (CH. 1-35.)
SECTION I.—THE GREAT ARRAIGNMENT (Isaiah 1:1.).
EXPOSITION
Isaiah 1:1
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The book of Isaiah is a marvelous book of prophecy. Of course, it is
the longest book of prophecy in the Bible, and it would seem that God
gave to Isaiah a clearer vision of the redemptive work of Jes...
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2 Corinthians 2:17; Ezekiel 22:18; Hosea 4:18; Hosea 6:4; Jeremi