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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 3:25,26

(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 that commemorated the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, she is represented as sitting on the ground desolate and afflicted.

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See also Isaiah 3:25,26 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 3:25. _THY MIGHTY MEN._] For גבורתך _geburathech_ an ancient MS. has גבורך _gibborech_. The true reading, from the _Septuagint,_ _Vulgate, Syriac_, and _Chaldee_, seems to be גבוריך _gibb...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THY MEN - This is an address to Jerusalem itself, by a change not uncommon in the writings of Isaiah. In the calamities coming on them, their strong men should be overcome, and fall in battle....

  • 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

    MIGHTY. might. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "mighty ones"....

  • 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

    Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. THY MEN - of Jerusalem....

  • 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

    26. THY, HER] the pronouns refer to. Zion....

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מְתַ֖יִךְ בַּ † חֶ֣רֶב יִפֹּ֑לוּ וּ גְבוּרָתֵ֖ךְ...

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Thy men shall fall by the (t) sword, and thy mighty in the war. (t) Meaning that God will not only punish the women but their husbands who have permitted this dissoluteness and also the commonwealth...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Fairest. They shall not be spared. (Calmet) --- "As they have perished by their beauty, their fairest," &c. (Chaldean)_...

  • 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

    25._Thy men shall fall by the sword. _He directs his discourse to Jerusalem and to the whole kingdom of Judah; for, after having demonstrated that the whole body is infected with a plague, and that no...

  • 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

    THY MEN SHALL FALL BY THE SWORD,.... Of the Romans; which would be a punishment to the women for their pride and luxury, being deprived thereby of their husbands: AND THY MIGHTY IN THE WAR; of Vespas...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. Ver. 25. _Thy men shall fall by the sword._] For suffering and favouring the women's excesses, such as are today naked breasts and shoulder...

  • 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

    Thy men shall fall by the sword, the defenders of Jerusalem a prey of war, AND THY MIGHTY IN THE WAR....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE VANITY OF THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    MIGHTY: _ Heb._ might...

  • 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

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 3:25 men H4962 fall H5307 (H8799) sword H2719 mighty H1369 war H4421 Thy men -...

  • 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

    2 Chronicles 29:9; Amos 9:10; Jeremiah 11:22; Jeremiah 14:18;...

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