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Isaiah 28:17

An architect has used a *plumb-line and a *measure to make sure that his cornerstone is accurate. He must be able to trust the cornerstone when he erects his building. Similarly, God has taken great care about his special cornerstone. He will use it to build up the life of each believer.

• Believers must develop an attitude of trust towards God. And they must develop an attitude of fair behaviour towards other people.

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See also Isaiah 28:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    JUDGMENT ALSO WILL I LAY TO THE LINE - The sense of this is, I will judge them according to the exact rule of law, as an architect frames everything according to the rule which he uses. In other words...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. THE SIX WOES OF THE PROPHET, JUDGMENT RUINS AND RESTORATION GLORIES TO COME (28-35) CHAPTER 28 The First Woe and the Message of Assurance 1. _Ephraim addressed (Isaiah 28:1)_ 2. _Jerusalem equall...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JERUSALEM ALSO IS THREATENED WITH DESTRUCTION. But Jerusalem like Ephraim reels with intoxication, the priests and prophets especially. The prophet is not steady in his vision, the priest when pronoun...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    JUDGMENT ALSO WILL. LAY TO THE LINE, &C.. I will make judgment the line, and righteousness the plumbline....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    There is again a _literary_connexion with what precedes; although the passage is probably a summary of an independent discourse. The prophet's aim is to impress on his opponents the disastrous consequ...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Thé first half of the verse continues Isaiah 28:16. In order to build on this foundation, it is necessary that political conduct be conformed to the eternal principles of the Divine government; these...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    JUDGMENT ALSO WILL I LAY TO THE LINE— The prophet, having provided for the safety of those who put their trust in God, prepares himself to denounce the judgments ready for the profane and hypocritical...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. STABILITY TEXT: Isaiah 28:14-29 14 Wherefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem: 15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. JUDGMENT ALSO WILL I LAY TO...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RV 'Judgment also will I make the line and righteousness the plummet.' Righteousness is the standard by which Jehovah will try conduct. The sense of what follows is that the false refuges and alliance...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This chapter must be assigned (Isaiah 28:1) to a date prior to the capture of Samaria by the Assyrians (722 b.c.) and fall of the northern kingdom. 1-6. Samaria's luxury and self-indulgence pave the...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    JUDGMENT ALSO WILL I LAY TO THE LINE... — Rather, _I make judgment for a line, and righteousness for a plummet._ The architectural imagery is continued. The “elect corner stone” shall come up to the s...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ שַׂמְתִּ֤י מִשְׁפָּט֙ לְ קָ֔ו וּ צְדָקָ֖ה

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 3 PROPHECIES FROM THE ACCESSION OF HEZEKIAH TO THE DEATH OF SARGON 727-705 B.C. THE prophecies with which we have been engaged (Chapter s 2-10:4) fall either before or during the great Assyrian...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    TRUTH THE ONLY REFUGE Isaiah 28:14-29 In the beginning of Hezekiah's reign the Jewish leaders had made an alliance with Assyria, on whom they relied to protect them against any and all foes. But the...

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

    Here begins the third and last circle of the first division of the book. It consists of a series of prophecies concerning the chosen people and the world. In this chapter we have a graphic revelation...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Judgment also will I lay to the line, and (t) righteousness to the plummet: and the (u) hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow (x) the hiding place. (t) In the restit...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Measure. In the days of the Redeemer, they shall lead a virtuous life, (Calmet) or the scorners shall be treated with rigour. --- Protection. The wall, (Menochius) or lies, (ver. 15.; Calmet) on whic...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I have often thought, that among all the unpromising appearances of things around, when men sin with a high hand, in slighting and despising both God's judgments and God's mercies; the most unpromisin...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    17._And I will lay judgment to the line. _The ruinous condition of the Church being such that believers hardly ventured to hope that it would be improved, he shews that God has in his hand the ready m...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 28 sets before us the first elements of these final scenes in the history of this wonderful people. The scourge comes from the north. Ephraim is invaded as by an overflowing torrent, by a temp...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    JUDGMENT ALSO WILL I LAY TO THE LINE,.... A metaphor taken from builders, who in building use the line and plummet to carry on their work even and regular, retaining such stones as agree thereunto, an...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. Ver. 17. _Judgment also will...

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

    _Judgment also will I lay to the line_, &c. I will execute just judgment, as it were by a line and plummet annexed to it; that is, with exactness and care. I will severely punish and utterly destroy a...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE FALSE QND THE TRUE REFUGE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Judgment also will I lay to the line and righteousness to the plummet, the acts of Jehovah being regarded as the erecting of a building against the scorners according to the strictest vengeance of His...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    16-22 Here is a promise of Christ, as the only foundation of hope for escaping the wrath to come. This foundation was laid in Zion, in the eternal counsels of God. This foundation is a stone, firm an...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    JUDGMENT ALSO WILL I LAY TO THE LINE, AND RIGHTEOUSNESS TO THE PLUMMET; I will execute just judgment, as it were by a line and plummet annexed to it, i.e. with exactness and care. And this may be unde...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 28:17 justice H4941 line H7760 (H8804) H6957 righteousness H6666 plummet H4949 hail H1259 away H3261 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH STERNLY WARNS ABOUT THE THREATENING FUTURE IF THEY WILL NOT LOOK TO GOD'S SURE FOUNDATION (ISAIAH 28:14). The leaders of Judah reply that they are not afraid of his threats because they have go...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 28:17 All men know themselves to be sinners against God. They know, also, that as sinners they are in peril and are not safe. Hence their anxiety to find some refuge for safety. They know they...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Woe of Ephriam due to drunkenness. Prediction of Assyrian captivity of Ephriam. Ephriam's fate a warning to Judah. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The glorious beauty and the plenty of the lan...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 28:1. _The crown of pride._ Sebaste, the ancient Samaria, is situated on a long mount of an oval figure, having first a fruitful valley, and then a circle of hills running round about it. _Maun...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men_ ISAIAH’S RESPONSE The prophet replies that when the storm does sweep over the land, as it assuredly will, these “refuges of lies” will prove no shelter to...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone_ THE STONE LAID IN ZION The prophet borrows his figure from the huge and costly foundation stones upon which the temple rested (1 Kings 5:17); and the...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Judgment also will I lay to the line_ GOD’S JUDGMENTS I. The Lord PONDERS, with most exact attention, all the distinctions of characters, times, and circumstances; all the various motives both to l...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    FALSE REFUGES Isaiah 28:17. _And the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies_. Numerous are the stratagems of Satan to ruin souls. In some he effects this by hurrying them on in the broad way of ope...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION VII. RENEWED DENUNCIATIONS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH (CH. 28-31.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 28:1 A WARNING TO SAMARIA. The prophet has now east his eagle glance

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter 28. Now the prophet turns to the local present issues. He is now... he's gone off down the road to the end of things. Now he comes back and he begins to speak of the Northern Kingdom, the majo...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Kings 21:13; 2 Peter 3:6; 2 Peter 3:7; Amos 7:7; Daniel 11:22;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Plummet — I will execute just judgment, as it were by a line and plummet annexed to it; that is, with exactness and care: I will severely punish, and utterly destroy all who reject that stone. For the...

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