Isaiah 3:1

The Commander of the armies of angels is about to take away from Jerusalem and other places in Judea everything that you depend on— all your food and water.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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,

In Context

2He will take away your heroes and your other soldiers, your judges and your prophets, people who do rituals to find out what will happen in the future and the elders,

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Cross References

2 Kings 25:3After Zedekiah had been ruling for eleven years, the ◄famine/shortage of food► had become very bad. All their food was gone.

Isaiah 1:24Therefore I, the Commander of the armies of angels, the mighty God of Israel, say to my enemies, ‘ will get revenge on you; you will not cause me any more trouble. And I will pay you back for the evil things that you did.

Isaiah 5:13So, my people will be ◄exiled/taken to other countries► far away because they do not know about me. Those who are now very important and honored will starve, and the other people will die from thirst.

Isaiah 51:22Yahweh, your Lord and your God, the one who argues/pleads your case, says this: “Note this: It is as though [MET] I have taken that cup of bitter liquid from your hands; I will not be angry with you and cause you to suffer any more.

Jeremiah 38:9“Your majesty, those men have done a very evil thing. They have put the prophet Jeremiah in a well. Almost all the food in the city is gone, so they will not be able to bring him any food and as a result he will die from hunger!”

Ezekiel 14:13“You human, if the people of some country sin against me by abandoning me, and I punish [IDM] them by cutting off their food supply and by sending a famine, with the result that people and animals die,

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 →

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