Isaiah 10:1
“Woe [to] those decreeing decrees of iniquity, || And writers who have prescribed perverseness,
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In Context
2Of My people, || That widows may be their prey, || That they may spoil the fatherless.
Cross References
Exodus 23:3and you do not honor a poor man in his strife.
1 Kings 21:13and two men—sons of worthlessness—come in, and sit opposite him, and the men of worthlessness testify of him, even Naboth, before the people, saying, “Naboth blessed [[ or cursed]] God and [the] king”; and they take him out to the outside of the city, and stone him with stones, and he dies;
Psalms 58:2Even in heart you work iniquities, || In the land you ponder the violence of your hands.
Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked—evil, || Because the deed of his hand is done to him.
Isaiah 5:11Woe [to] those rising early in the morning, || They pursue strong drink! Lingering in twilight, wine inflames them!
Isaiah 5:20Woe [to] those saying to evil “good,” and to good “evil,” || Putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, || Putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 10:1
The prophet, in this chapter, is dealing, I. With the proud oppressors of his people at home, that abused their power, to pervert justice, whom he would reckon with for their tyranny, ver. 1-4 . II. With a threatening invader of his people from abroad, Sennacherib king of Assyria, concerning whom observe, 1. The commission given him to invade Judah, ver. 5, 6 . 2. His pride and insolence in the execution of that commission, ver. 7-11 , 13 , 14 . 3. A rebuke given to his haughtiness, and a threatening of his fall… Read the whole commentary →