Isaiah 57:3
But come here, you sons of the prophetess, you offspring of an adulterous man and a fornicating woman.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
In Context
2Let peace arrive. Let he who has walked in his righteousness find rest on his bed.
Cross References
Genesis 3:15I will put enmities between you and the woman, between your offspring and her offspring. She will crush your head, and you will lie in wait for her heel.”
Isaiah 45:20Assemble yourselves, and approach, and draw near together, you who have been saved among the Gentiles. They lack knowledge, who lift up the wood of their sculpture, and who petition a god unable to save.
Jeremiah 3:9And by the act of her fornication, she defiled the land. For she committed adultery with that which is stone and wood.
Hosea 2:4And I will not have mercy on her sons, for they are the sons of fornications.
Joel 3:9Proclaim this among the Gentiles: “Sanctify a war, raise up the strong. Approach, ascend, all men of war.
Matthew 12:34Progeny of vipers, how are you able to speak good things while you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 57:2-3
Death of the Righteous. ( b. c. 706.) 1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. 2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness. The prophet, in the close of the foregoing chapter, had condemned the watchmen for their ignorance and sottishness; here he shows the general stupidity and senselessness of the people likewise. No wonder they were… Read the whole commentary →