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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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CHILDREN. little ones.
DESTROY. have swallowed up....
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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 l...
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CHAPTER THREE
3.
THE VENGEANCE UPON DECADENCE Isaiah 3:1 to Isaiah 4:1
a. THE WEALTHY
TEXT: Isaiah 3:1-15
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For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem
and from Judah s...
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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)...
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3:12 destroy (b-23) Lit. 'swallow up.' so chs. 19.3; 25.7,8....
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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...
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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...
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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 3
DESPAIR IN *JERUSALEM
V1 See what the *Lord (commander of...
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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...
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עַמִּי֙ נֹגְשָׂ֣יו מְעֹולֵ֔ל וְ
נָשִׁ֖ים מָ֣שְׁלוּ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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[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...
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_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;...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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[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...
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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...
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_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...
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THE VANITY OF THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM...
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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...
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THEY WHICH LEAD THEE:
Or, they which call thee blessed
DESTROY:
_ Heb._ swallow up...
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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...
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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...
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Isaiah 3:12 people H5971 children H5953 (H8781) oppressors H5065
(H8802) women H802 rule H4910 (H8804) people...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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._)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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2 Kings 11:1; Isaiah 3:4; Isaiah 9:15; Jeremiah 5:31; Matthew 15:14;...
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Women — Weak and effeminate rulers. They — Thy rulers civil and
ecclesiastical....