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Verse Isaiah 3:15. _AND GRIND THE FACES_] The expression and the image
is strong, to denote grievous oppression but is exceeded by the
prophet Micah, Micah 3:1: -
"Hear, I pray you, ye chiefs of Jaco...
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WHAT MEAN YE - What is your object? Or, What advantage is it to you?
Or, By what right or pretence do you do this?
BEAT MY PEOPLE TO PIECES - That is, that you trample on them; or
cruelly oppress the...
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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...
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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...
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BEAT. crush.
SAITH. is the oracle of. the Lord....
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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...
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CHAPTER THREE
3.
THE VENGEANCE UPON DECADENCE Isaiah 3:1 to Isaiah 4:1
a. THE WEALTHY
TEXT: Isaiah 3:1-15
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For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem
and from Judah s...
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What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of
the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
WHAT MEAN YE (THAT) YE BEAT MY PEOPLE TO PIECES? - What right have ye
to beat? etc (; M...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, (m) and grind the
faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
(m) That is, you show all cruelty against them....
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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...
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15._What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces? _He mentions also
other particulars, from which it is evident that they ruled in a
haughty, cruel and oppressive manner. It was not necessary that th...
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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...
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WHAT MEAN YE, [THAT] YE BEAT MY PEOPLE TO PIECES,.... Reduce them to
the utmost poverty; so the Targum,
"wherefore do ye impoverish my people?''
as they did by exacting tithes of all that they posse...
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_What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces
of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts._
Ver. 15. _What mean you, that you beat my people to pieces?_] Heb.,
What to you? all i...
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_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,...
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THE VANITY OF THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM...
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What mean ye that ye beat My people to pieces, crushing them with the
most severe tyranny, AND GRIND THE FACES OF THE POOR? in trampling
them under foot, SAITH THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS. That is a special...
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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...
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WHAT MEAN YE? what warrant have ye for it? how durst you presume to do
it? GRIND, or _batter_, as the word is used, EXODUS 32:20; smite them
cruelly: see ISAIAH 58:4....
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Isaiah 3:15 crushing H1792 (H8762) people H5971 grinding H2912 (H8799)
faces H6440 poor H6041 Says H5002 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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OPPRESSION OF THE POOR
Isaiah 3:15. _What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind
the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts_.
That infidelity should progress among the labouring...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Amos 2:6; Amos 2:7; Amos 8:4; Exodus 5:14; Ezekiel 18:2;...