Isaiah 57:4
Over whom will you make yourselves merry? concerning whom will you open wide your mouth, stretch out your tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
3But ye draw near hither, sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.
Cross References
Exodus 9:17If thou dost yet wantonly oppress my people, so as not to let them go:
Numbers 16:11For which cause [beware], thou and all thy company that are gathered together against the Lord; for Aaron, what is he, that ye should murmur against him:
Judges 16:25And it came to pass, when their heart was merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make sport for us. And they called for Samson out of the prison-house; and he made sport before them; and they placed him between the pillars.
Job 16:9In his wrath he teareth me to pieces, and assaileth me: he gnasheth over me with his teeth; my adversary sendeth threatening looks at me.
Psalms 22:13(22:14) They have opened wide against me their mouth, [as] a ravenous and roaring lion.
Psalms 35:21Yea, they opened wide against me their mouth; they said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 57:4-13
A Charge against the People. ( b. c. 706.) 3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. 4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood, 5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? 6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou… Read the whole commentary →