Isaiah 3:1
For behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
Darby Translation
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In Context
2the mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, and the diviner and the elder,
Cross References
2 Kings 25:3On the ninth of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
Isaiah 1:24Therefore saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah! I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies.
Isaiah 5:13Therefore my people are led away captive from lack of knowledge, and their nobility die of famine, and their multitude are parched with thirst.
Isaiah 51:22thus saith thy Lord, Jehovah, and thy God, who pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I take out of thy hand the cup of bewilderment, the goblet-cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
Jeremiah 38:9My lord, O king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to the prophet Jeremiah, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he will die by reason of the famine in the place where he is; for there is no more bread in the city.
Ezekiel 14:13Son of man, when a land sinneth against me by working unfaithfulness, and I stretch out my hand upon it, and break the staff of the bread thereof, and send famine upon it, and cut off man and beast from it;
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 3:1
The prophet, in this chapter, goes on to foretel the desolations that were coming upon Judah and Jerusalem for their sins, both that by the Babylonians and that which completed their ruin by the Romans, with some of the grounds of God's controversy with them. God threatens, I. To deprive them of all the supports both of their life and of their government, ver. 1-3 . II. To leave them to fall into confusion and disorder, ver. 4, 5 , 12 . III. To deny them the blessing of magistracy, ver. 6-8 . IV. To strip the… Read the whole commentary →