Isaiah 9:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bible Comments

No joy — Shall not rejoice over them to do them good. Fatherless — Who are the special objects of his care and pity, and much less upon others. Every one — Not precisely; for there were seven thousand elect persons among them, when they seemed to Elijah to be universally corrupt, but the body of the people. Hypocrite — For though they professed to worship God, yet indeed they had forsaken him. Folly — Wickedness.

Isaiah 9:17

17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly.d For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.