Isaiah 3:8

For stumbled hath Jerusalem, and, Judah, hath fallen,—Because, their tongue and their doings, are against Yahweh, Provoking his glorious presence,

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

7He will swear, in that day, saying—I will take no control, When in mine own house, is neither food nor clothing,—Ye must not set me for a ruler of people!

9The show of their face, hath answered against them, And their sin—like Sodom, have they told, they have not concealed it. Alas for their souls! For they have requited to themselves, calamity.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:5Wherefore Yahweh his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria, who smote him, and carried away captive from him a large body of captives, and brought them into Damascus,—yea, even into the hand of the king of Israel, was he delivered, who smote him with a great smiting.

2 Chronicles 33:6And, he, caused his sons to pass through the fire, in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and practised hidden arts and used divination, and practised sorcery, and appointed a necromancer, and a wizard,—he exceeded in doing the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger;

2 Chronicles 36:17So he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword, in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or virgin, elder or ancient,-all, delivered he into his hand.

Proverbs 26:27He that diggeth a pit, thereinto, shall fall, and, he that rolleth a stone, upon himself, shall it return.

Isaiah 5:18Alas! for them Who draw on themselves punishment with cords of falsehood,—And as with waggon-bands, penalty:

Isaiah 57:4Against whom would ye disport yourselves? Against whom would ye widen the mouth and lengthen the tongue,—Are not, ye, Children of transgression, A Seed of falsehood.

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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