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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 28:22

Their scornful attitude will only lead to heavier foreign oppression. Lest your bands] They are acting in such a way as to fix the Assyrian yoke more firmly upon Judah, and render it more galling. Consumption] RV 'consummation': see Isaiah 10:22; Isaiah 10:23.

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See also Isaiah 28:22 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 28:22. _THE LORD GOD_] אדני יהוה _Adonai Jehovah_. Adonai is omitted by four of _Kennicott's_ MSS., and in the _Septuagint,_ _Syriac_, and _Arabic_....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    NOW THEREFORE - In view of the certain judgment which God will bring upon you. BE YE NOT MOCKERS - This was the prevailing sin Isaiah 28:9, and on account of this sin in part the judgment of God was...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. THE SIX WOES OF THE PROPHET, JUDGMENT RUINS AND RESTORATION GLORIES TO COME (28-35) CHAPTER 28 The First Woe and the Message of Assurance 1. _Ephraim addressed (Isaiah 28:1)_ 2. _Jerusalem equall...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JERUSALEM ALSO IS THREATENED WITH DESTRUCTION. But Jerusalem like Ephraim reels with intoxication, the priests and prophets especially. The prophet is not steady in his vision, the priest when pronoun...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    EARTH. land, or soil....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    There is again a _literary_connexion with what precedes; although the passage is probably a summary of an independent discourse. The prophet's aim is to impress on his opponents the disastrous consequ...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A final appeal to the "scoffers" (Isaiah 28:14), based on the irreversible decision of Jehovah. _be ye not mockers_ DO NOT PLAY THE SCOFFER. _lest your bands be made strong_ i.e. "lest ye be firmly...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    JUDGMENT ALSO WILL I LAY TO THE LINE— The prophet, having provided for the safety of those who put their trust in God, prepares himself to denounce the judgments ready for the profane and hypocritical...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. STABILITY TEXT: Isaiah 28:14-29 14 Wherefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem: 15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth. BE YE NOT MOCKERS - a sin which th...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    28:22 land. (a-31) Or 'earth,' as ch. 10.23....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 28 The next section of the Book of Isaiah is from Chapter 28 to Chapter 33. These Cha...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The ‘whole country’ means not only Israel (Samaria) to the north (verses 1-13). It also includes Judah (verses 14-22). WISDOM COMES FROM GOD V23 Listen carefully to what I am saying. Give attention...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    NOW THEREFORE BE YE NOT MOCKERS... — The rulers are warned that the scorn in which they indulge so freely will only make the fetters which already gall them tighter and heavier. In the words that foll...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ עַתָּה֙ אַל ־תִּתְלֹוצָ֔צוּ פֶּֽן ־יֶחְזְק֖וּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 3 PROPHECIES FROM THE ACCESSION OF HEZEKIAH TO THE DEATH OF SARGON 727-705 B.C. THE prophecies with which we have been engaged (Chapter s 2-10:4) fall either before or during the great Assyrian...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    TRUTH THE ONLY REFUGE Isaiah 28:14-29 In the beginning of Hezekiah's reign the Jewish leaders had made an alliance with Assyria, on whom they relied to protect them against any and all foes. But the...

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

    Here begins the third and last circle of the first division of the book. It consists of a series of prophecies concerning the chosen people and the world. In this chapter we have a graphic revelation...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Earth. Nabuchodonosor will take a complete and speedy vengeance, chap. x. 22._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I have often thought, that among all the unpromising appearances of things around, when men sin with a high hand, in slighting and despising both God's judgments and God's mercies; the most unpromisin...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    22._Now therefore. _He again reminds those wicked men, whom he had formerly called “scorners,” (Isaiah 28:14,) that their cunning, and contempt, and jeers, and mockery, will avail them nothing, becaus...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 28 sets before us the first elements of these final scenes in the history of this wonderful people. The scourge comes from the north. Ephraim is invaded as by an overflowing torrent, by a temp...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    NOW THEREFORE BE YE NOT MOCKERS,.... At the words of the prophets, and the judgments denounced by them, which is very common, when they are deferred, and not immediately executed: this was the case be...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth. Ver. 22. _Now therefore be ye not moc...

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

    _Now therefore be not mockers_ For your own sakes do not make a mock of God's word and threatenings, as you use to do. _Lest your bands be made strong_ Lest thereby you make the judgments of God, whic...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Now, therefore, so the prophet, in conclusion, warns the scoffers, BE YE NOT MOCKERS, LEST YOUR BANDS BE MADE STRONG, namely, the fetters of their submission to Assyria; FOR I HAVE HEARD FROM THE LORD...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE FALSE QND THE TRUE REFUGE...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    16-22 Here is a promise of Christ, as the only foundation of hope for escaping the wrath to come. This foundation was laid in Zion, in the eternal counsels of God. This foundation is a stone, firm an...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BE YE NOT MOCKERS; for your own sakes do not make a mock of God's word and threatenings, as you use to do. LEST YOUR BANDS BE MADE STRONG; lest thereby you make the judgments of God, which are oft com...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 28:22 mockers H3887 (H8698) bonds H4147 strong H2388 (H8799) heard H8085 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH STERNLY WARNS ABOUT THE THREATENING FUTURE IF THEY WILL NOT LOOK TO GOD'S SURE FOUNDATION (ISAIAH 28:14). The leaders of Judah reply that they are not afraid of his threats because they have go...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Woe of Ephriam due to drunkenness. Prediction of Assyrian captivity of Ephriam. Ephriam's fate a warning to Judah. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The glorious beauty and the plenty of the lan...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 28:1. _The crown of pride._ Sebaste, the ancient Samaria, is situated on a long mount of an oval figure, having first a fruitful valley, and then a circle of hills running round about it. _Maun...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Be ye not mockers_ A WARNING TO MOCKERS Enough is recorded in the chapter before us to justify this serious admonition. I. A SOLEMN WARNING. “Be ye not mockers.” 1. Are there no mockers in our re...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men_ ISAIAH’S RESPONSE The prophet replies that when the storm does sweep over the land, as it assuredly will, these “refuges of lies” will prove no shelter to...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    IRRELIGIOUS MOCKERY Isaiah 28:22. _Now, therefore, be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong_. The sense of the ludicrous is excited by words, ideas, images, or objects in which unexpected re...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION VII. RENEWED DENUNCIATIONS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH (CH. 28-31.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 28:1 A WARNING TO SAMARIA. The prophet has now east his eagle glance

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter 28. Now the prophet turns to the local present issues. He is now... he's gone off down the road to the end of things. Now he comes back and he begins to speak of the Northern Kingdom, the majo...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 30:10; 2 Chronicles 33:11; 2 Chronicles 36:16; Acts 13:40;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Lest — Lest thereby you make the judgments of God sure and unavoidable. For — God hath assured me, that he will utterly destroy the people of Israel....

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