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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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b. THE WOMEN
TEXT: Isaiah 3:16 to Isaiah 4:1
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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(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...
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וְ אָנ֥וּ וְ אָבְל֖וּ פְּתָחֶ֑יהָ וְ
נִקָּ֖תָ
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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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_Ground. The posture of captives, Lamentations i. 1._...
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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...
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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:...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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THE VANITY OF THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Isaiah 3:26 gates H6607 lament H578 (H8804) mourn H56 (H8804) desolate
H5352 (H8738) sit H3427 ...
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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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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...
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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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Ezekiel 26:16; Isaiah 47:1; Jeremiah 14:2; Job 2:13; Job 2:8;...
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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 us...