Isaiah 3:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolatek shall sit upon the ground. ”

• Isaiah 3:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And her gates - Cities were surrounded with walls, and were entered through gates opening into the principal streets. Those gates became, of course, the places of chief confluence and of business...

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• Isaiah 3:26 - 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...

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• Isaiah 3:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  gates . entrances. mourn. Occurs in "former" portion here, Isaiah 19:8 (as adjective); Isaiah 24:4 ; Isaiah 24:7 ; Isaiah 33:9 . and in the "latter" portion, Isaiah 57:18 (as noun); Isaia...

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• Isaiah 3:26 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  26. Her gates shall mourn and lament. Hence arises the mourning of the gates, which, he threatens, will take place when they have met with their calamities; for he means, that where there...

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• Isaiah 3:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground. Sit upon the ground - Sitting on the ground was a posture that denoted mourning and deep distress. The prophe...

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• Isaiah 3:26 - 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 2:21-22 . We may observe, that the prophet here does...

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• Isaiah 3:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground. Her gates shall lament. The place of concourse personified is represented mourning for the loss of thos...

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• Isaiah 3:26 - 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...

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• Isaiah 3:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (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 me...

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• Isaiah 3:26 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Isaiah 3:26 - 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...

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• Isaiah 3:26 - 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...

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• Isaiah 3:26 - 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...

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• Isaiah 3:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And her gates shall lament and mourn ,.... These being utterly destroyed; or there being none to pass through them, meaning the gates of the city of Jerusalem: and she [being\ desolate; clear of...

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• Isaiah 3:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she [being] desolate shall sit upon the ground. Ver. 26. And her gates shall lament. ] Because unfrequented. Lam 1:4 And the king desolate. ] Swept and...

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• Isaiah 3:26 - 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 2:21-22 . But we must observe, that the prophet here...

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• Isaiah 3:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Vanity of the Daughters of Zion. B. C. 758.       16 Moreover the L ORD saith, Because...

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• Isaiah 3:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Her gates; the gates of Zion or Jerusalem, which, by a figure very usual in sacred Scripture and all authors, are said to lament, to imply the great desolation of the place, that there should be no...

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• Isaiah 3:26 - 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. C...

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• Isaiah 3:26 - 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...

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• Isaiah 3:26 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Isaiah 3:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Vanity of the Women of Jerusalem

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• Isaiah 3:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ezekiel 26:16 ; Isaiah 47:1 ; Jeremiah 14:2 ; Job 2:13 ; Job 2:8 ; Lamentations 1:4 ; Lamentations 2:10 ; Luke 19:44

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• Isaiah 3:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Gates — The gates of Zion or Jerusalem, which, by a figure, are said to lament, to imply the great desolation of the place; that there would be no people to go out and come in by the gates, as they...

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