Isaiah 57:9

And thou wentest to Melech; + 57:9 i.e., the pagan g-d Molech, the deity of sacrificed offspring and abortions 1 with shemen thou didst increase thy perfumes, 1 and didst send thy + 57:9 political envoys far, 1 even down unto Sheol. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.

In Context

8Behind the delet also and the mezuzah (doorpost) 1 hast thou set up thy zikron ([pornographic and idolatrous] memorial); 1 deserting Me, thou hast uncovered thyself, and art gone up; 1 thou hast enlarged thy mishkav (bed) 1 and cut + 57:8 a Brit for thee with them [a Brit]; 1 thou lovedst their mishkav (bed) 1 where thou hast looked on their yad. + 57:8 i.e., phallus 1

10Thou art wearied in the length of thy derech; 1 yet saidst thou not: It is hopeless; 1 thou hast found the chayyat yad (life of hand, power) of thine; 1 therefore thou wast not faint. 1

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Cross References

Proverbs 7:17I have perfumed my mishkav (bed) 1 with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 1

Isaiah 30:1Hoy (woe, doom) to the banim sorerim (obstinately rebellious children), saith Hashem, 1 that take etzah, but not from Me; 1 and in their plans weave a web, but not of My Ruach, 1 that they may heap up chattat upon chattat; 1

Ezekiel 16:33They give nedeh (gifts) to all zonot; but thou givest thy nadan (gift) to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy zenut.

Ezekiel 23:40And furthermore, they sent for anashim to come from afar, unto whom malach (messenger) had been sent; and, hinei, they came; the men for whom thou didst wash thyself, didst paint thy eynayim, and didst deck thyself with jewelry,

Hosea 7:11Ephrayim also is like an easily deceived yonah without sense; 1 they call to Mitzrayim, 1 they turn to Assyria. 1

Colossians 2:18Let no one deprive you of the prize by delighting in his mystical asceticism and his veneration of malachim and delving into his chazonot (visions) and being vainly puffed up by the machshavot (thoughts) of his basar (old nature unrenewed and unregenerated by the Ruach Hakodesh),

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 →

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