“ Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: ”
Thy silver - The sentiment in this verse, as it is explained by the following, is, thy princes and people have become corrupt, and polluted. Silver is used here to denote what should have been mo...
Thy (f) silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: (f) Whatever was pure in you before, is now corrupt, though you have an outward show.
A complete poem, of uncertain date, in elegiac rhythm. How has the city once loyal to Yahweh become faithless to her husband! Her silver has become dross, her wine adulterated. Her princes rebel agai...
wine . liquor, or drink. Hebrew. saba' . App-27.
22. Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water Isaiah speaks metaphorically, and by two comparisons shows here, that though the outward appearance of affairs was not openly overtu...
Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: Wine mixed with water - An image used for the adulteration of wines, with more propriety than may at first appear, if what Thevenot says of the...
Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water - Thy princes and people are degenerate in solid worth ("silver," Jeremiah 6:28 ;...
Jehovah's Arraignment of His People This chapter is general in character, and much of it (e.g. Isaiah 1:10-17 ) might refer to almost any period. This general character of the prophecy renders it...
Thy silver is become dross ... — The two images describe the degeneracy of the rulers to whose neglect this disorder was due. (See Notes on Jeremiah 6:28-30 .) Hypocrisy and adulteration were the o...
CHAPTER I THE ARGUMENT OF THE LORD AND ITS CONCLUSION Isaiah 1:1-31 -His General Preface THE first chapter of the Book of Isaiah owes its position not to its date, but to its character. It was...
a Nation Purged of Dross by Disaster Isaiah 1:21-31 The great lover of our souls does not abandon His people even when they spurn the first overtures of His appealing pity. Though they refuse t...
Isaiah was a prophet to Judah. He exercised his ministry wholly within her borders, and with a view to her correction and comfort. His burdens of the nations were uttered concerning those nations whi...
Under these figures of speech, are represented the sad fall of our nature. It forms in language a beautiful, though in reality, an awful account. But, Reader, painful as it is to know, yet it is prof...
Thy silver is become dross ,.... Meaning either that such persons, who had the appearance of goodness, looked like genuine silver, were now become reprobate, and, as the wicked of the earth, like dr...
Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: Ver. 22. Thy silver is become dross. ] Heb., Drosses, a proverbial kind of speech, deciphering apostasy. It is as if the prophet had said, Th...
Thy silver is become dross Thou art wofully degenerated from thy former purity. Thy wine mixed with water If there be any remains of religion and virtue in thee, they are mixed with many and grea...
The Degeneracy of Jerusalem; Reformation of the Church. B. C. 738. 21 How is the faith...
Thou art woefully degenerated from thy former purity. If there be any remainders of religion and justice in thee, they are mixed with many and great corruptions.
Isaiah Outlines The Message He Is Bringing ( Isaiah 1:1-31 ). This introductory message is also presented in balanced chiastic form. a He calls on Creation to be aware of God's judgment on His pe...
MORAL DECLENSION Isaiah 1:21-23 . How is the faithful city become an harlot! [430] It was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers [433] Thy silver is become dross, thy...
Isaiah 1:1 . The vision. What the prophet saw with the eyes of his mind, concerning the state of Judah and Jerusalem, his ministry being chiefly confined to the kingdom of Judea. Isaiah, the son...
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken God finds vindication in nature I well remember two funerals going out of my house within a few brief months during my residence...
PART I.— EARLIER PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH ( CH . 1-35.) SECTION I.— THE GREAT ARRAIGNMENT ( Isaiah 1:1-23 .). EXPOSITION Isaiah 1:1 TITLE OF THE WORK . It is questioned...
The Lord's Complaint against Jerusalem
2 Corinthians 2:17 ; Ezekiel 22:18-22 ; Hosea 4:18 ; Hosea 6:4 ; Jeremiah 6:28-30 ; Lamentations 4:1 ; Lamentations 4:2