Isaiah 3:8

For Yerushalayim is ruined, 1 and Yehudah fallen; 1 because their leshon and their deeds are against Hashem, 1 to provoke the eyes of His kavod. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

In Context

7In Yom Hahu shall he protest, saying, 1 I am no curer of your ills; 1 for in my bais is neither lechem nor simlah (clothing); 1 make me not a Katzin Am. 1

9The show of their countenance doth testify against them; 1 and they make known their chet like S'dom; 1 they conceal it not. 1 Oy to their nefesh! For they do ra'ah unto themselves. 1

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:5Therefore Hashem Elohav delivered him into the yad Melech Aram; and they defeated him, and carried off a great multitude of prisoners, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the yad Melech Yisroel, who inflicted on him makkah gedolah.

2 Chronicles 33:6And he caused his banot to pass through the eish in the Gey Ben Hinnom; also he practiced astrology, fortune-telling, and witchcraft, and necromancy and consulted mediums and spiritists; he wrought rah in the eyes of Hashem, to provoke Him to anger.

2 Chronicles 36:17Therefore He brought upon them Melech Kasdim, who slaughtered their bochurim with the cherev in their Beis Mikdash, and had no pity upon bochur or betulah, zaken or the aged man. He gave them all into his yad.

Proverbs 26:27He who diggeth a shachat (pit) shall fall therein, 1 and he that rolleth an even (stone), 1 it will roll back upon him. 1

Isaiah 5:18Hoy unto them that draw avon (guilt) with cords of deceit, 1 and tug at chatta'ah (sin) as with a cart rope; 1

Isaiah 57:4At whom are you sneering? 1 Against whom make ye a wide mouth, 1 and draw out the leshon? 1 Are ye not yeledim of peysha (rebellion), 1 zera sheker? 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 3:2-9

Judgments Denounced. ( b. c. 758.) 1 For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, 2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, 3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. 4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. 5 And the people… Read the whole commentary →

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