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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 9:17

Therefore the Lord shall have no joy... — The Hebrew tenses are in the past, The Lord had no joy. The severity of the coming judgment is represented as not sparing even the flower of the nation’s youth, the widows and orphans who were the special objects of compassion both to God and man. The corruption of the time was universal, and the prophet’s formula, “For all this his anger is not turned away ...” tolls again like the knell of doom.

Folly. — Better, blasphemy or villainy.

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See also Isaiah 9:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    9:17 hypocrite (e-28) Or 'profane,' 'impious.' see ch. 33.14. folly. (f-36) Or 'villainy.' _ Nabal_ . see ch. 32.5; Proverbs 17:7 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Folly. Sin. They are all guilty. He will shew no compassion._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Jehovah's Hand Stretched our in Judgment...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    FOLLY: Or, villany...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-21 Those are ripening apace for ruin, whose hearts are unhumbled under humbling providences. For that which God designs, in smiting us, is, to turn us to himself; and if this point be not gained by...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SECOND CHASTISEMENT. THE REMOVAL OF THE LEADERSHIP (ISAIAH 9:13). Analysis. a Yet the people have not turned to Him who smote them, nor have they sought Yahweh of hosts (Isaiah 9:13). b Therefor...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: A divine child, the only hope of Israel. Vision of the outstretched hand. The unavailing chastisement. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Isaiah, Rezin. CONCLUSION: In the worst of times, God's peopl...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 9:1. _The dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation._ Dr. Lightfoot infers from this, that there was much greater affliction in the first days of her vexation. All the Versions differ ve...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    No joy — Shall not rejoice over them to do them good. Fatherless — Who are the special objects of his care and pity, and much less upon others. Every one — Not precisely; for there were seven thousand...

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