As for my people, &c.— In these verses the prophet describes the incapacity and weakness, the ignorance and corruption, the oppression and cruelty of the priests and rulers of the people; such as we learn from history they were before the Babylonish captivity.
Verse Isaiah 3:12. _ERR_ - "Pervert"] בלעו _billeu_, "swallow." Among many unsatisfactory methods of accounting for the unusual meaning of this word in this place, I choose Jarchi's explication, as ma...
AS FOR MY PEOPLE, CHILDREN ARE THEIR OPPRESSORS - This refers, doubtless, to their civil rulers. They who “ought” to have been their “protectors,” oppressed them by grievous taxes and burdens. But whe...
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...
CHILDREN. little ones. DESTROY. have swallowed up....
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...
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. (AS FOR) MY PEOPLE, CHILDREN (ARE)...
3:12 destroy (b-23) Lit. 'swallow up.' so chs. 19.3; 25.7,8....
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...
Cp. Isaiah 3:4. THEY WHICH LEAD THEE] lit. 'they that set thee right,' i.e. they that should set thee aright. The reference is to king Ahaz and his counsellors, amongst whom the queen-mother was promi...
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...
CHILDREN ARE THEIR OPPRESSORS... — This points, as before (Isaiah 3:4), to the youth and yet more the character of Ahaz. The influence of the queen-mother or of the seraglio was dominant in his counse...
עַמִּי֙ נֹגְשָׂ֣יו מְעֹולֵ֔ל וְ נָשִׁ֖ים מָ֣שְׁלוּ...
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...
[As for] my people, (k) children [are] their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they who lead thee cause [thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. (k) Because the wicked people...
_Women. "Let no women be our senate, as the impious Porphyrius objects." The scribes and Pharisees sought for lucre and pleasure. The teacher approved by the Church must excite tears and not laughter;...
Reader! do not fail to observe, both indeed in this place, and through the word of God at large, that amidst all the backslidings of Israel, the Lord still keeps up the remembrance of their relationsh...
12._The oppressors of any people are children _(60) Here also is reproved the madness and sottishness of the people, because they shut their eyes at noon-day. There is nothing which men are more reluc...
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...
[AS FOR] MY PEOPLE, CHILDREN [ARE] THEIR OPPRESSORS,.... Or rulers; for נוגש, in the Ethiopic language, signifies a king: or "exactors", as in Isaiah 60:17 princes are so called, because they exact tr...
Isaiah 3:12 [As for] my people, children [are] their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause [thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. Ver. 12. _As for my...
_As for my people_ In this and the following verses, says Dr. Dodd, “the prophet describes the incapacity and weakness, the ignorance and corruption, the oppression and cruelty of the priests and rule...
THE VANITY OF THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM...
As for My people, still looked upon by the Lord with loving regard, CHILDREN, incompetent and ruthless youngsters, ARE THEIR OPPRESSORS, AND WOMEN, subject to whims and moods, RULE OVER THEM. O MY PEO...
THEY WHICH LEAD THEE: Or, they which call thee blessed DESTROY: _ Heb._ swallow up...
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...
WOMEN; either, 1. Properly so called, by their favour and power with the rulers; or, 2. Weak and effeminate rulers, such being called _women_ both in sacred and profane writings. THEY WHICH LEAD THEE...
Isaiah 3:12 people H5971 children H5953 (H8781) oppressors H5065 (H8802) women H802 rule H4910 (H8804) people...
THE FAILURE OF THE LEADERS OF THE PEOPLE (ISAIAH 3:12). Isaiah 3:12 ‘As for my people, children are their oppressors (taskmasters), And women rule over them. O my people, those who should set you...
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...
_As for My people_ A PROTEST A protest against the influence of women and children, concubines and minions (what we should call the harem influence) in the king’s counsels. (_E. H.Plumptre, D. D._)...
BLIND LEADERS Isaiah 3:12. _O my people, they which lead thee_ [550] _cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths_. [550] The marginal reading, “they which call thee happy” (Malachi 3:12; Mal...
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 Kings 11:1; Isaiah 3:4; Isaiah 9:15; Jeremiah 5:31; Matthew 15:14;...
Women — Weak and effeminate rulers. They — Thy rulers civil and ecclesiastical....