Isaiah 22:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: ”

Isaiah 22:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And in that day - In the invasion of Sennacherib. It might be rendered, ‘And the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, on such a day calls to weeping;’ intimating that in such a time it was a general truth that...
Isaiah 22:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jerusalem's Inexcusable Frivolity. The prophecy apparently belongs to the time of Sennacherib's invasion. Its menacing tone contrasts with that of some other prophecies of the time. The people had...
Isaiah 22:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

12. And the Lord of hosts called. The wicked obstinacy of the people is exhibited by the Prophet with additional aggravations. What left them altogether without excuse was the fact, that whi...
Isaiah 22:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 888 THE UNCONCERN OF MEN AMIDST GOD’S CALLS TO REPENTANCE Isaiah 22:12-14 . In that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding wit...
Isaiah 22:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
Isaiah 22:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And in that day did, &c.— Or, And in that day will, &c. Another fault which the prophet imputes to the carnal Jews, is manifest and hardened epicurism, or carnal security, founded in impi...
Isaiah 22:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping and to mourning and to baldness and to And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, an...
Isaiah 22:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jerusalem Rebuked A severe rebuke of the conduct of the people of Jerusalem in a time of calamity. The crisis refered to cannot be certainly identified. The difficulty in assigning the passage to...
Isaiah 22:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

BOOK 4 JERUSALEM AND SENNACHERIB 701 B.C. INTO this fourth book we put all the rest of the prophecies of the Book of Isaiah, that have to do with the prophet's own time: Chapter s 1, 22 and 33,...
Isaiah 22:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In the midst of the prophecies concerning the nations occurs one of protest against the indifference of Jerusalem to the prophet's messages. He first describes the joyous people as they stand in cont...
Isaiah 22:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Reader! do not fail to remark, how the Lord, by the same process of grace, carries on his merciful designs towards his people, in all ages. He visits their offences with the rod, and their sin with s...
Isaiah 22:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And in that day did the Lord God of hosts ,.... When it was a day of trouble, of treading down, and of perplexity; when Jerusalem was besieged by the Assyrian army; and when the people were so much...
Isaiah 22:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: Ver. 12. And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping. ] P...
Isaiah 22:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And in that day did , or will, the Lord call , &c. Another fault, which the prophet imputes to the carnal Jews, is impenitence, or carnal security. He foretels that God would call them to weepi...
Isaiah 22:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Contempt of Divine Goodness; Contempt of Divine Judgments. B. C. 718. 8 And he discove...
Isaiah 22:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Call; invite and oblige them by the course of his providence, and require this by the precepts requiring these things in such times and conditions. To baldness; to make themselves bald, by plucki...
Isaiah 22:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And in that day the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, called to weeping and to mourning, and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth.' For there was One Who had offered another way. That One was the soverei...
Isaiah 22:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 22:1 . The valley of vision. A valley near Jerusalem, so called because of a school of the prophets said to have been there. Isaiah 22:3 . All thy rulers are fled. All thy captains of h...
Isaiah 22:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping. .. And behold joy and gladness A call to repentance I. THE CALL TO REPENTANCE ( Isaiah 22:12 ). 1. The day here referred to was a s...
Isaiah 22:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 22:1-23 A PROPHECY AGAINST JERUSALEM . The prophet, present in Jerusalem, either actually, or at any rate in spirit, sees the inhabitants crowded together upon the...
Isaiah 22:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Oracle of the Valley of Vision
Isaiah 22:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 35:25 ; Amos 8:10 ; Ecclesiastes 3:11 ; Ecclesiastes 3:4 ; Ezra 9:3 ; Isaiah 15:2 ; James 4:8-10 ; James 5:1 ; Job 1:20 ; Joel 1:13 ; Joel 2:17 ; Jonah 3:6 ; Micah 1:16 ; N...
Isaiah 22:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Call — By his providence, and by his precepts requiring these things in such times. Baldness — By plucking or shaving off the hair of their heads, as was usual in great sorrows.

Isaiah 22:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 22:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 22:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 22:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Isaiah 22:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 22:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 22:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 22:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 22:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 22:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 22:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 22:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 22:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 22:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 22:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 22:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 22:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 22:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 22:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 22:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 22:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 22:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 22:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes