Isaiah 3:9
The 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.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
10Say ye to the righteous It is well! For the fruit of their doings, shall they eat:
Cross References
Genesis 13:13Now, the men of Sodom were base and sinful,—against Yahweh, exceedingly.
Genesis 19:5And they called unto Lot and said to him, Where are the men who have come in unto thee tonight? Bring them forth unto us, and let us know them!
1 Samuel 15:32Then said Samuel—Bring ye near unto me—Agag, king of Amalek, And Agag came unto him, in fetters. Then said Agag, Surely, terrible, is the bitterness of death!
Psalms 10:4The lawless one, in the loftiness of his countenance, will not enquire, God is not in any of his plots:
Proverbs 8:36But, he that misseth me, wrongeth his own soul, all who hate me, love death.
Isaiah 3:16Because haughty are the daughters of Zion, And they walk with neck thrown back, and wanton eyes,—Tripping along as they go, And with their feet, making, a tinkling sound,
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 →