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Isaiah 3:13

The Lord standeth up to plead, to take up the case of the world, and standeth to judge the people, all the nations of the world, to convict them of their wickedness.

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See also Isaiah 3:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 3:13. _THE PEOPLE _- "His people"] עמו _ammo, Septuagint_....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE LORD STANDETH UP - To “stand up” may mean the same as to “arise.” God would not sit in silence and see their wicked conduct; but he would come forth to inflict on them exemplary and deserved chast...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 3 Judgments upon the Rulers and the Daughters Of Zion 1. _The judgment against the rulers (Isaiah 3:1)_ 2. _Jerusalem's sad condition (Isaiah 3:8)_ 3. _Jehovah's message (Isaiah 3:10)_ 4. The...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    YAHWEH JUDGES THE RULERS. Probably an independent oracle, presumably, though not certainly, uttered early in Isaiah's career. Yahweh has taken up the cause of the wronged, and calls elders and princes...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    PEOPLE. peoples....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AS FOR MY PEOPLE, &C.— In these verses the prophet describes the incapacity and weakness, the ignorance and corruption, the oppression and cruelty of the priests and rulers of the people; such as we l...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER THREE 3. THE VENGEANCE UPON DECADENCE Isaiah 3:1 to Isaiah 4:1 a. THE WEALTHY TEXT: Isaiah 3:1-15 1 For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah s...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people. THE LORD STANDETH UP - no longer sitting in silence. TO PLEAD - "by fire and by His sword," and consuming judgments, so as, howev...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. STAY AND THE STAFF] A prophecy of famine: cp. Isaiah 3:7, as the clause following explains. But if the latter clause is a gloss then 'stay and staff' would refer to the classes upon which the stabi...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PEOPLE] RV 'peoples.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 3 DESPAIR IN *JERUSALEM V1 See what the *Lord (commander of...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    God warns the leaders in particular that he is well aware of their wicked practices. GOD WARNS WOMEN IN *JERUSALEM V16 Look at those women in *Jerusalem! They walk about so proudly. In the street t...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE LORD STANDETH UP TO PLEAD... — The people may think that the prophet is their censor. He bids them know that Jehovah is their true accuser and their judge. “_Ye,_” he says, with all the emphasis o...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    נִצָּ֥ב לָ רִ֖יב יְהוָ֑ה וְ עֹמֵ֖ד לָ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER II THE THREE JERUSALEMS 740-735 B.C. Isaiah 2:1; Isaiah 3:1; Isaiah 4:1 AFTER the general introduction, in chapter 1, to the prophecies of Isaiah, there comes another portion of the book, o...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    VANITY AND SELFISH LUXURY CONDEMNED Isaiah 3:13-26; Isaiah 4:1-6 This paragraph opens with the majestic figure of Jehovah Himself, who arises to judge the misrulers and plead the cause of the poor. T...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The prophet now deals with judgment in greater detail, and shows how it will proceed against the rulers and against the women. The judgment in the case of the rulers is to be the destruction of true g...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader! do not fail to observe, both indeed in this place, and through the word of God at large, that amidst all the backslidings of Israel, the Lord still keeps up the remembrance of their relationsh...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    13._Jehovah standeth up to plead _So long as wickedness rages without control, and the Lord sends no relief from on high, we think that he is idle and has forgotten his duty. More especially, when the...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 2, 3, AND 4. Thus re-established, Zion, the mountain of Jehovah, will be the centre of blessing and peace to all the nations (Isaiah 2:1-4). This puts the inv...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THE LORD STANDETH UP TO PLEAD,.... His own cause, or the cause of his son against the Jews that rejected him, and the Scribes and Pharisees that led them to an ill opinion of him: AND STANDETH TO JUD...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people. Ver. 13. _The Lord standeth up to plead._] Or, To debate, Job 9:3 Pro 25:8-9 to argue the case, and to hear pleas. He is content, for...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The Lord standeth up to plead_ He will shortly and certainly stand up as a judge to inquire into the cause, and to give sentence; _and standeth to judge the people_ To call the wicked into judgment,...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    10-15 The rule was certain; however there might be national prosperity or trouble, it would be well with the righteous and ill with the wicked. Blessed be God, there is abundant encouragement to the...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE LORD STANDETH UP; he will shortly and certainly stand up as a judge, to inquire into the cause, and to give sentence. TO JUDGE THE PEOPLE, i.e. to defend and deliver them, or to judge for them, as...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 3:13 LORD H3068 up H5324 (H8737) plead H7378 (H8800) stands H5975 (H8802) judge H1777 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FAILURE OF THE LEADERS OF THE PEOPLE (ISAIAH 3:12). Isaiah 3:12 ‘As for my people, children are their oppressors (taskmasters), And women rule over them. O my people, those who should set you...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The coming desolations of Jerusalem because of sin and the judgment of sinners. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Whatever evil befalls sinners, it is of their own procuring. Those who...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 3:1. _Behold, the Lord doth take away from Jerusalem the whole stay of bread._ This threatening is understood of the Chaldean invasion in the reign of Jechoniah, and after the death of king Jos...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The Lord standeth up to plead_ GOD’S CONTROVERSY The management of this controversy. I. GOD HIMSELF IS THE PROSECUTOR. II. THE INDICTMENT IS PROVED BY THE NOTORIOUS EVIDENCE OF THE FACT (Isaiah 3...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE PLEADER AND THE JUDGE Isaiah 3:13. _The Lord standeth up to plead, &c._ I. THE PLEADER WHO HERE PRESENTS HIMSELF. Note 1. HIS MAJESTY. The ancient idea of an advocate was that of a venerable per...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 3:1 GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON JERUSALEM. The general denunciations against Israel of the two preceding chapters are here turned especially against Jerusalem. God will deprive her of all h...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    For, behold, 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, the mighty men, and the man of war, the judge...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Hosea 4:1; Hosea 4:2; Micah 6:2; Proverbs 22:22; Proverbs 22:23;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Standeth — He will shortly and certainly stand up as a judge, to enquire into the cause, and to give sentence. To judge — To defend and deliver them....

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