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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 3:26

Gates — The gates of Zion or Jerusalem, which, by a figure, are said to lament, to imply the great desolation of the place; that there would be no people to go out and come in by the gates, as they used to do. Shall sit — Like a mournful woman bewailing the loss of her husband and children.

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See also Isaiah 3:26 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 3:26. _SIT UPON THE GROUND._] Sitting on the ground was a posture that denoted mourning and deep distress. The prophet Jeremiah (Lamentations 2:8) has given it the first place among many...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND HER GATES - Cities were surrounded with walls, and were entered through gates opening into the principal streets. Those gates became, of course, the places of chief confluence and of business; and...

  • 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

    ISAIAH 3:16 TO ISAIAH 4:1. THE LUXURIOUS LADIES OF JERUSALEM AND THEIR DOOM. As Amos attacked the women of Samaria for their luxury, made possible through the oppression of the poor (Amos 4:1), so Isa...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GATES. entrances. MOURN. Occurs in "former" portion here, Isaiah 19:8 (as adjective); Isaiah 24:4; Isaiah 24:7; Isaiah 33:9. and in the "latter...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THY MEN SHALL FALL, &C.— We have in these verses the second evil; the desolation and widowhood of the matrons and virgins. See Lamentations 2:21. We may observe, that the prophet here does not address...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    b. THE WOMEN TEXT: Isaiah 3:16 to Isaiah 4:1 16 Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, a...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground. HER GATES SHALL LAMENT. The place of concourse personified is represented mourning for the loss of those mul...

  • 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

    SIT UPON THE GROUND] a posture of mourning: cp. Lamentations 1:1. ISAIAH'S PREACHING EARLY IN THE REIGN OF AHAZ Isaiah 2-4 are closely connected, and Isaiah 5 is generally thought to belong to the sa...

  • 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

    At that time, enemies will attack and destroy *Jerusalem. God’s judgement will show itself in all that the people suffer. • ‘Women’ is more accurately ‘daughters’ and so probably means all the inhabi...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (25-26) THY MEN...(26) HER GATES... — The feminine pronoun in both verses points to the daughter of Zion as representing her many daughters. As in Lamentations 1:1, and as in the JUDÆA CAPTA medals th...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אָנ֥וּ וְ אָבְל֖וּ פְּתָחֶ֑יהָ וְ נִקָּ֖תָ

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Ground. The posture of captives, Lamentations i. 1._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS READER, while these humbling views of Israel's transgressions are before us, let us bring home the affecting subject to our own hearts, and we shall find cause to cry out with the apostle:...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The chapter ends, as it began, and as one might reasonably suppose would be the close; if sin reigns, sorrow must follow: for the wages of sin is death. Blessed be God, who hath taken occasion, from t...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    26._Her gates shall mourn and lament. _Hence arises the _mourning of the gates_, which, he threatens, will take place when they have met with their calamities; for he means, that where there were grea...

  • 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

    AND HER GATES SHALL LAMENT AND MOURN,.... These being utterly destroyed; or there being none to pass through them, meaning the gates of the city of Jerusalem: AND SHE [BEING\ desolate; clear of inhab...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she [being] desolate shall sit upon the ground. Ver. 26. _And her gates shall lament._] Because unfrequented. Lam 1:4 _ And the king desolate._] Swept and w...

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

    _Thy men shall fall_, &c. We have in these verses the second evil; the desolation and widowhood of the matrons and virgins: see Lamentations 2:21. But we must observe, that the prophet here does not a...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And her gates, where the chief. men of the city were wont to discuss the welfare of the city, SHALL LAMENT AND MOURN, because the seats of the men are empty; AND SHE, the daughter of Zion, the city it...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE VANITY OF THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    DESOLATE: Or, emptied, _Heb._ cleansed...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    16-26 The prophet reproves and warns the daughters of Zion of the sufferings coming upon them. Let them know that God notices the folly and vanity of proud women, even of their dress. The punishments...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HER GATES; the gates of Zion or Jerusalem, which, by a figure very usual in sacred Scripture and all authors, are said to lament, to imply the great desolation of the place, that there should be no pe...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 3:26 gates H6607 lament H578 (H8804) mourn H56 (H8804) desolate H5352 (H8738) sit H3427 ...

  • 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 Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    FEMALE PRIDE AND LUXURY Isaiah 3:16, Isaiah 4:1. _Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, &c._ We have here a terrible denunciation of female pride and luxury. Consider— I...

  • 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

    Ezekiel 26:16; Isaiah 47:1; Jeremiah 14:2; Job 2:13; Job 2:8;...

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