“ The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people. ”
The Lord standeth up - To “stand up” may mean the same as to “arise.” God would not sit in silence and see their wicked conduct; but he would come forth to inflict on them exemplary and deserved...
Yahweh Judges the Rulers. Probably an independent oracle, presumably, though not certainly, uttered early in Isaiah's career. Yahweh has taken up the cause of the wronged, and calls elders and prin...
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13. Jehovah standeth up to plead So long as wickedness rages without control, and the Lord sends no relief from on high, we think that he is idle and has forgotten his duty. More especially,...
The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people. The people "His people" - עמו ammo, Septuagint.
As for my people, &c.— In these verses the prophet describes the incapacity and weakness, the ignorance and corruption, the oppression and cruelty of the priests and rulers of the people; such...
The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people. The Lord standeth up - no longer sitting in silence. To plead - "by fire and by His sword," and consuming judgments, so as...
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...
The Lord standeth up to plead ... — The people may think that the prophet is their censor. He bids them know that Jehovah is their true accuser and their judge. “ Ye, ” he says, with all the emphasi...
CHAPTER II THE THREE JERUSALEMS 740-735 B.C. Isaiah 2:1-22 ; Isaiah 3:1-26 ; Isaiah 4:1-6 AFTER the general introduction, in chapter 1, to the prophecies of Isaiah, there comes another port...
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...
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...
Reader! do not fail to observe, both indeed in this place, and through the word of God at large, that amidst all the backslidings of Israel, the Lord still keeps up the remembrance of their relations...
The Lord standeth up to plead ,.... His own cause, or the cause of his son against the Jews that rejected him, and the Scribes and Pharisees that led them to an ill opinion of him: and standeth to...
The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people. Ver. 13. The Lord standeth up to plead. ] Or, To debate, Job 9:3 Pro 25:8-9 to argue the case, and to hear pleas. He is content, fo...
The Lord standeth up to plead He will shortly and certainly stand up as a judge to inquire into the cause, and to give sentence; and standeth to judge the people To call the wicked into judgment,...
Judgments Denounced.. B. C. 758. 9 The show of their countenance doth witness against...
The Lord standeth up; he will shortly and certainly stand up as a judge, to inquire into the cause, and to give sentence. To judge the people, i.e. to defend and deliver them, or to judge for the...
The Failure Of The Leaders of the People ( Isaiah 3:12-15 ). Isaiah 3:12-15 ‘As for my people, children are their oppressors (taskmasters), And women rule over them. O my people, those who sh...
THE PLEADER AND THE JUDGE Isaiah 3:13-15 . The Lord standeth up to plead, &c. I. THE PLEADER WHO HERE PRESENTS HIMSELF. Note 1. His majesty. The ancient idea of an advocate was that of a...
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...
The Lord standeth up to plead God’s controversy The management of this controversy. I. GOD HIMSELF IS THE PROSECUTOR. II. THE INDICTMENT IS PROVED BY THE NOTORIOUS EVIDENCE OF THE FACT (...
EXPOSITION Isaiah 3:1-23 GOD 'S JUDGMENT UPON JERUSALEM . The general denunciations against Israel of the two preceding chapters are here turned especially against Jerusalem. God will...
The Vanity of the Women of Jerusalem
Hosea 4:1 ; Hosea 4:2 ; Micah 6:2 ; Proverbs 22:22 ; Proverbs 22:23 ; Proverbs 23:10 ; Proverbs 23:11 ; Psalms 12:5
Standeth — He will shortly and certainly stand up as a judge, to enquire into the cause, and to give sentence. To judge — To defend and deliver them.