Isaiah 1:21

is. [is it that she].

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

How is - This is an expression of deploring, or lamenting. It indicates that that had occurred which was matter of grief. The prophet had stated...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

How is the (d) faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now (e) murderers. (d) That is, Jerusalem, w...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 d...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

21. How is the faithful city become an harlot ! In order to make the rebuke more forcible, and the crime of the people more shocking, in hav...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. Become a harlot - See before, the...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

How is the faithful city become an harlot— Though the Lord, in the preceding part of the chapter, had suggested to the wicked and the hypocrites a...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. How is the faithful city b...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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....
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

An harlot ] figuratively expressing the faithlessness, through its idolatry, of the nation which had been betrothed to God: cp. Exodus 34:15 ; Deu...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

How is the faithful city become an harlot !... — The opening word, as in Lamentations 1:1 , is the key-note of an elegiac wail, which opens a new s...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 posi...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

How is the faithful city become a harlot !.... The city of Jerusalem, in which were the temple, and the pure worship of God, and was in the tribe of...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. Ver. 21. How is the faithful ci...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

How is the faithful city Jerusalem, which in the reign of former kings was faithful to God; become a harlot Filled with idolatry, called whoredom...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Degeneracy of Jerusalem; Reformation of the Church. B. C. 738....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

How, a note of admiration at so strange, and sad, and sudden a change, is the faithful city, Jerusalem, which in the reign of former kings was fa...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah Outlines The Message He Is Bringing ( Isaiah 1:1-31 ). This introductory message is also presented in balanced chiastic form. a He calls o...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

A Further Description of Their State Before God ( Isaiah 1:21-23 ). Isaiah 1:21 ‘How is the faithful city, Become a prostitute? She who was f...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

God's Purpose For The Future ( Isaiah 1:21-26 ). The call having been made to Israel for response, God describes their present state and guarantee...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

AN ILLUSTRIOUS INHABITANT Isaiah 1:21 . Righteousness lodged in it . I. A High Commendation. Righteousness lodged in the city—not merely visite...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 c...
The Biblical Illustrator

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 h...
The Biblical Illustrator

How is the faithful city become an harlot The faithful city a harlot A dirge in dirge metre over Jerusalem. “Harlot” is unfaithful wife. In Is...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

How is the faithful city, Jerusalem with its representative inhabitants, formerly excelling in faithfulness to Jehovah, become an harlot, given to...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Lord's Complaint against Jerusalem
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The city — Jerusalem, which in the reign of former kings was faithful to God. An harlot — Is filled with idolatry. Murderers — Under that one gross...

²¹ How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 1:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 1:21