Isaiah 3:8

Jerusalem and the other towns in Judah will be destroyed, because everything that the people do and say there opposes Yahweh, who is powerful and glorious, and they refuse to obey him. They rebel against him.

Translation for Translators

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

7But his brother will reply, “ No, I cannot help you, because I do not have any extra food or clothes in this house. So do not appoint me to be your leader!”

9They even show on their faces that they oppose Yahweh. They are proud of their sins, like the people of Sodom were long ago; they do not try to hide their sins. Because of their sins, terrible things will happen to them, but they will bring those disasters on themselves.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:5Therefore Yahweh his God allowed his army to be defeated by the army of the king of Syria. They captured many soldiers of Judah and took them as prisoners to Damascus. The army of the king of Israel also defeated the army of Judah and killed very many of their soldiers.

2 Chronicles 33:6He even sacrificed some of his own sons and burned them in a fire in Hinnom Valley. He performed rituals to practice sorcery. He asked fortune-tellers for advice. He performed witchcraft. He talked to people who consulted the spirits of people who had died to find out what would happen in the future. He did many things that Yahweh considered o be very evil, things that caused Yahweh to become very angry.

2 Chronicles 36:17He incited the king of Babylonia to attack Judah with his army. They killed the young men with their swords, even in the temple. They did not spare/pity anyone, young men or young women or old people. God enabled the army of Nebuchadnezzar to kill all of them.

Proverbs 26:27Those who dig a deep pit for other people to fall into will fall into it themselves; rocks will roll down on those who start to cause rocks to roll down to crush someone.

Isaiah 5:18Some people constantly tell lies, and it is as though they are dragging behind them the wrong things that they have done. Terrible things will happen to them!

Isaiah 57:4Do you realize [RHQ] whom you are ridiculing, and whom you are insulting? Do you realize [RHQ] to whom you are sticking out your tongues? You are insulting me, Yahweh! You are [RHQ] always rebelling against me and always lying.

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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