Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Isaiah 10:2
Verse Isaiah 10:2. My people] Instead of עמי ammi, my people, many MSS., and one of my own, ancient, read עמו ammo, his people. But this is manifestly a corruption.
Verse Isaiah 10:2. My people] Instead of עמי ammi, my people, many MSS., and one of my own, ancient, read עמו ammo, his people. But this is manifestly a corruption.
TO TURN ASIDE - Their sentences have the effect, and are designed to have, to pervert justice, and to oppress the poor, or to deprive them of their rights and just claims; compare Isaiah 29:21; Prover...
CHAPTER 10 The Assyrian, His invasion of Immanuel's land, and His end 1. _The first four verses belong to the preceding chapter. A description of the Assyrian enemy (Isaiah 10:5)_ 2. _The overthrow o...
ISAIAH 9:8 TO ISAIAH 10:4. YAHWEH SMITES EPHRAIM WITH STROKE AFTER STROKE. It is generally agreed that Isaiah 5:26 formed the closing strophe of this poem (p. 440). The date is probably before the coa...
POOR. Hebrew. _'ani._ See note on Proverbs 6:11....
Fourth strophe. Most critics consider that at this point the scene changes from Samaria to Jerusalem; (1) because the internal condition of Ephraim has already been depicted in the last stages of diss...
Isaiah 9:8 to Isaiah 10:4 (+ Isaiah 5:25-30) Jehovah's hand stretched out in wrath over His people. An oracle against North Israel The key-note of the prophecy is given in the recurrent refrain...
The effect and real purpose of this legislative activity. _To turn aside the needy from judgment_ See on ch. Isaiah 1:23. _my people_ as Isaiah 3:12; Isaiah 3:15....
WOE UNTO THEM THAT DECREE UNRIGHTEOUS DECREES, &C.— We have in the two first verses the fourth fault, and in the third and fourth the punishment. The fault complained of is, the injustice and the iniq...
CHAPTER TEN D. PRESERVATION IN IMMANUEL 1. SOCIAL INJUSTICE TEXT: Isaiah 10:1-4 1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness; 2 to turn aside the n...
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! TO TURN ASIDE THE NEEDY FROM JUDG...
DIVINE JUDGMENTS ON THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL This section relates throughout to the kingdom of Israel. It belongs to the same period as the Chapter s immediately preceding, and treats of the ruin which I...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 10 GOD’S JUDGEMENT AGAINST EVIL LAWS V1 *Woe to those who make crue...
לְ הַטֹּ֤ות מִ דִּין֙ דַּלִּ֔ים וְ לִ
CHAPTER VII THE MESSIAH WE have now reached that point of Isaiah's prophesying at which the Messiah becomes the most conspicuous figure on his horizon. Let us take advantage of it to gather into one...
SOCIAL INJUSTICE CONDEMNED Isaiah 9:18-21; Isaiah 10:1-4 The terrible indictment of the preceding paragraphs is continued here. Notice the awful monotony of the refrain, Isaiah 9:12; Isaiah 9:17; Is...
Here we have the message of hope (verses Isa 9:1-7) in the glorious picture of the Coming Deliverer, with the equally glorious record of the results of His Coming. It is one of the greatest Messianic...
Amidst general sins, with which both the people of God, and the oppressors of the Lord's people, are said to abound, the Prophet is pointing to some special instances of the kind, which marked the hig...
2._To keep back. _(156) Others render it, _to cause them to turn aside_; but the true meaning is, _to keep back the poor from judgment_, or make them lose their cause. This is the iniquity and oppress...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9:8-21, 10, 11, AND 12. In Isaiah 9:8 the Spirit, having given the great leading facts as to Messiah, Immanuel, resumes the general history of Israel without...
TO TURN ASIDE THE NEEDY FROM JUDGMENT,.... Such laws being made as discouraged them from any application for justice; and, when they did, were harassed with such long, vexatious, and expensive suits,...
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and [that] they may rob the fatherless! Ver. 2. _To turn away the needy fr...
_Wo_, &c. The first four verses of this chapter are closely connected with the foregoing, and ought to have been joined thereto, being a continuation of the subject treated of in it. We have here the...
WOE UPON TYRANTS...
to turn aside the needy from judgment, that is, to deprive them of their rights, of the justice due them, AND TO TAKE AWAY THE RIGHT FROM THE POOR OF MY PEOPLE, willfully and maliciously taking it fro...
1-4 These verses are to be joined with the foregoing chapter. Woe to the superior powers that devise and decree unrighteous decrees! And woe to the inferior officers that draw them up, and enter them...
FROM JUDGMENT; or, _from their right_, as it is in the next clause; or, from obtaining a just sentence, because they either denied or delayed to hear their causes, or gave a wrong sentence. FROM THE P...
Isaiah 10:2 rob H5186 (H8687) needy H1800 justice H1779 take H1497 (H8800) right H4941 poor H6041 people...
CHAPTER ISAIAH 10:1 THE FOURTH CHASTISEMENT. BAD LEADERSHIP, RANK INJUSTICE, AND CAPTIVITY (ISAIAH 10:1). Analysis. · Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write troubl...
CONTENTS: The commission to invade Judah and its execution. Threatening of the invaders ruin after serving God's purpose. New encouragement given to God's people. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: God som...
The first four verses, are properly a part of the preseding chapter, and contain a severe reproof of the magistrates who wrested the judgment of the poor and needy. Isaiah 10:5. _Oh Assyrian._ Hebrews...
_Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees_ CRIME UNDER COLOUR OF LAW The prophet has described the sins of Ephraim in a general manner; but on the mention of Judah he proceeds to denounce what...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 10:1 Corrupt WEALTH leads to helplessness. ⇐ ⇔...
LEGALISED INJUSTICE Isaiah 10:1. _Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, &c._ I. An indictment against wicked magistrates. II. A challenge. III. A sentence. I. Magistrates and rulers are answ...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 10:1 The prophecy begun in Isaiah 9:8 terminates with this stanza, which contains a warning against injustice and oppression, addressed to Israel and Judah equally, and accompanied...
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, tha...
Amos 2:7; Amos 5:11; Amos 5:12; Ezekiel 22:7; Isaiah 1:23;...
Judgment — From obtaining a just sentence....