Isaiah 57:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered [thyself to another] than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee [a covenant] with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest [it].

Ver. 8. Behind the doors also, and the posts.] Where my law should have been written. Deuteronomy 6:9 ; Deu 11:20

Hast thou set up thy remembrance?] Thy idols and monuments of idolatry, such as Papists now call memories and laymen's books.

Thou hast discovered thyself] Thy nakedness, like a meretrix meretricissima, divaricasti tibias as Eze 23:29 Omnibus modis te comparans ut impudentissimum scortum, prostituting thyself as a most impudent harlot, prodigiously lascivious.

Isaiah 57:8

8 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and madeb thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.