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Isaiah 3:9
9The look of their face doth witness against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom: they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have brought evil upon themselves.
Isaiah 3:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
- New International Version (NIV)The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The look on their countenance witnesses against them, And they declare their sin as Sodom; They do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought evil upon themselves.
Context of Isaiah 3:9
7he will lift up [his hand] in that day, saying, I cannot be a healer, and in my house there is neither bread nor clothing; ye shall not make me a chief of the people. 8For Jerusalem stumbleth and Judah falleth, because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory. The look of their face doth witness against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom: they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have brought evil upon themselves. 10Say ye of the righteous that it shall be well [with him], for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 11Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill [with him], because the desert of his hands shall be rendered unto him.
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הַכָּרַ֤ת פְּנֵיהֶם֙ עָ֣נְתָה בָּ֔ם וְחַטָּאתָ֛ם כִּסְדֹ֥ם הִגִּ֖ידוּ לֹ֣א כִחֵ֑דוּ א֣וֹי לְנַפְשָׁ֔ם כִּֽי־גָמְל֥וּ לָהֶ֖ם רָעָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Isaiah 3:9
- Isaiah 3:16And Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-out neck and wanton eyes, and go along mincing, and making a tinkling with their feet;
- 1 Samuel 15:32And Samuel said, Bring ye near to me Agag the king of Amalek. And Agag came to him gaily. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
- 2 Kings 9:30And Jehu came to Jizreel; and Jezebel heard of it, and she put paint to her eyes, and decked her head, and looked out at the window.
- Psalms 10:4The wicked [saith], in the haughtiness of his countenance, He doth not search out: all his thoughts are, There is no God!
- Psalms 73:6Therefore pride encompasseth them as a neck-chain, violence covereth them [as] a garment;
- Proverbs 30:13there is a generation, — how lofty are their eyes, how their eyelids are lifted up!
- Jeremiah 3:3And the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; but thou hast a harlot's forehead, thou refusest to be ashamed.
- Jeremiah 6:15Are they ashamed that they have committed abomination? Nay, they are not at all ashamed, neither know they what it is to blush. Therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at the time that I visit them they shall stumble, saith Jehovah.
- Daniel 7:20and concerning the ten horns that were in its head, and the other that came up, and before which three fell: even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth speaking great things, and whose look was more imposing than its fellows.
- Genesis 13:13And the people of Sodom were wicked, and great sinners before Jehovah.
- Genesis 18:20And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grievous,
- Genesis 19:5And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that have come in to thee to-night? bring them out to us that we may know them.
- Jeremiah 44:16[As for] the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah, we will not hearken unto thee,
- Ezekiel 23:16And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she lusted after them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
- Lamentations 5:16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!
- Hosea 13:9It is thy destruction, O Israel, that [thou art] against me, against thy help.
Commentaries on Isaiah 3:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9The show of their countenance - Bishop Lowth has it the steadfastness of their countenance - they appear to be bent on iniquity, their eyes tell the wickedness of their hearts. The eye is the index of the mind. Envy, hatred, malice, malevolence, concupiscence, and murder, when in the heart, look most intelligently out at the eye. They tell the innocent to be on their guard; and serve the same purpose as the sonorous rings in the tail of the rattlesnake…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9The show of their countenance - The word rendered “the show” is probably derived from a word signifying “to know,” or “to recognize,” and here denotes “impudence” or “pride.” Septuagint, The shame of their face.‘ Doth witness against them - “Answers” to them; or “responds” to them (ענתה ‛ânetâh ). There is a correspondence between the feeling of the heart and the looks, an “answering” of the countenance to the purposes of the soul that shows their true…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9The expression on their faces: At this time, the people openly defied God.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. show--The Hebrew means, "that which may be known by their countenances" [Gesenius and Weiss]. But Maurer translates, "Their respect for person"; so Syriac and Chaldee. But the parallel word "declare" favors the other view. Kimchi, from the Arabic, translates "their hardness" (Job 19:3, Margin), or impudence of countenance (Jr 3:3). They have lost not only the substance of virtue, but its color. witness--literally, "corresponds" to them; their look…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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