CONTENTS
The subject appears to be continued through this chapter, which
engaged the prophet's attention in the former. The people are reproved
their transgressions, and the consequent displeasure of the Lord
spoken of.
Isaiah 3:1
The prophet opens this chapter by pointing to the consequence of si... [ Continue Reading ]
The prophet plainly shows by these verses, that the sin is universal.
All ranks and all orders of the people are involved in the same sin,
and consequently the same punishment. It is a melancholy state of the
church, in all ages, when sin like a disease, runs through all: and it
may be said, Like pr... [ Continue Reading ]
How sweet and precious doth the former of these verses come in, after
the preceding relation! And how bitter and alarming the latter!
Reader, depend upon it, such will be the striking distinction in that
day which shall come, and which shall burn as an oven, Malachi 4:1.
Both in public and private v... [ Continue Reading ]
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 relationship. The
name is not lost; As for MY people, saith the Lord. And how doth the
Lord expostulate with t... [ Continue Reading ]
What a sad portrait is here drawn by the prophet, of the daughters of
Zion. Alas! how unsuitable to Zion's daughters, who are supposed to be
women professing godliness. Reader! is not the present day very
similar to what is here said, of wantonness of conduct, and looseness
of dress, among our women... [ Continue Reading ]
The chapter ends, as it began, and as one might reasonably suppose
would be the close; if sin reigns, sorrow must follow: for the wages
of sin is death. Blessed be God, who hath taken occasion, from the
misery of our nature, to magnify the riches of his grace, and where
sin hath abounded that grace... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS
READER, while these humbling views of Israel's transgressions are
before us, let us bring home the affecting subject to our own hearts,
and we shall find cause to cry out with the apostle: Are we better
than they? No! in no wise; for the scripture hath concluded all under
sin. We all par... [ Continue Reading ]