Isaiah 57:4

Isaiah 57:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
• New International Version (NIV)Who are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not a brood of rebels, the offspring of liars?
• English Standard Version (ESV)Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open your mouth wide and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of deceit,
• New King James Version (NKJV)Whom do you ridicule? Against whom do you make a wide mouth And stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, Offspring of falsehood,

Context of Isaiah 57:4

2Those who live uprightly enter a place of peace; they rest on their beds. 3But approach, you sons of omen readers, you offspring of adulteresses and prostitutes! At whom are you laughing? At whom are you opening your mouth and sticking out your tongue? You are the children of rebels, the offspring of liars, 5you who practice ritual sex under the oaks and every green tree, who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs. 6Among the smooth stones of the stream are the idols you love; they, they are the object of your devotion. You pour out liquid offerings to them, you make an offering. Because of these things I will seek vengeance.

Isaiah 57:4 word by word

עַל־מִי֙ תִּתְעַנָּ֔גוּ עַל־מִ֛י תַּרְחִ֥יבוּ פֶ֖ה תַּאֲרִ֣יכוּ לָשׁ֑וֹן הֲלֽוֹא־אַתֶּ֥ם יִלְדֵי־פֶ֖שַׁע זֶ֥רַע שָֽׁקֶר׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Against whom do ye sportעָנֹג‛ânag · to delightH6026
• yourselves? against whom make ye a wideרָחַבrâchab · to enlargeH7337
• mouthפֶּהpeh · lipH6310
• draw outאָרַךְ'ârak · to prolongH748
• the tongueלָשׁוֹןlâshôn lâshôn leshônâh · tongueH3956
• ye not childrenיֶ֫לֶדyeled · youthH3206
• of transgressionפֶּ֫שַׁעpesha‛ · transgressionH6588
• a seedזֶ֫רַעzera‛ · seed: childrenH2233
• of falsehoodשֶׁ֫קֶרsheqer · deceptionH8267

Cross-references for Isaiah 57:4

• Isaiah 10:15Does an ax exalt itself over the one who wields it, or a saw magnify itself over the one who cuts with it? As if a scepter should brandish the one who raises it, or a staff should lift up what is not made of wood!
• Isaiah 37:23Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at? At whom have you shouted and looked so arrogantly? At the Holy One of Israel!
• Exodus 9:17You are still exalting yourself against my people by not releasing them.
• Exodus 16:7and in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your murmurings against the Lord. As for us, what are we, that you should murmur against us?”
• Numbers 16:11Therefore you and all your company have assembled together against the Lord! And Aaron – what is he that you murmur against him?”
• Luke 10:16“The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”
• Acts 9:4He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”
• Judges 16:25When they really started celebrating, they said, “Call for Samson so he can entertain us!” So they summoned Samson from the prison and he entertained them. They made him stand between two pillars.
• Psalms 69:12Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me; drunkards mock me in their songs.
• Matthew 27:29and after braiding a crown of thorns, they put it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand, and kneeling down before him, they mocked him: “Hail, king of the Jews!”
• 2 Peter 2:13suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways. By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight, they are stains and blemishes, indulging in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you.
• Psalms 35:21They are ready to devour me; they say, “Aha! Aha! We’ve got you!”
• Joshua 10:21Then the whole army safely returned to Joshua at the camp in Makkedah. No one dared threaten the Israelites.
• Job 16:9His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.
• Psalms 22:7All who see me taunt me; they mock me and shake their heads.
• Lamentations 2:15All who passed by on the road clapped their hands to mock you. They sneered and shook their heads at Daughter Jerusalem. “Ha! Is this the city they called ‘The perfection of beauty, the source of joy of the whole earth!’?” פ (Pe)

Commentaries on Isaiah 57:4

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? - The word here rendered sport‘ (ענג ‛ānag ) means properly “to live delicately and tenderly”; then “to rejoice, to take pleasure or delight.” Here, however, it is evidently used in the sense of to sport oneself over anyone, that is, to deride; and the idea is, probably, that they made a sport or mockery of God, and of the institutions of religion. The prophet asks, with deep indignation and emotion, against whom they…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 3-12Verses 3-12 The Lord here calls apostates and hypocrites to appear before him. When reproved for their sins, and threatened with judgments, they ridiculed the word of God. The Jews were guilty of idolatry before the captivity; but not after that affliction. Their zeal in the worship of false gods, may shame our indifference in the worship of the true God. The service of sin is disgraceful slavery; those who thus debase themselves to hell, will justly have…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4mocking … stick out your tongue: The wicked oppressed the righteous by their insults (Isaiah 57:1–2; see also 28:9, 14).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. sport yourselves--make a mock (Is 66:5). Are ye aware of the glory of Him whom you mock, by mocking His servants ("the righteous," Is 57:1)? (2Ch 36:16). make ... wide mouth--(Psa 22:7, 13; 35:21; La 2:16). children of transgression, &c.--not merely children of transgressors, and a seed of false parents, but of transgression and falsehood itself, utterly unfaithful to God.Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 57:4

• Adultery
• Idolatry
• Infidelity
• Scoffing

In the dictionaries

• Bed
• Dirt
• Eternity
• Inhabit
• Lofty
• Crime; Crimes
• Isaiah
• Mouth
• Saviour
• Seed

Commentaries on Isaiah 57

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• 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
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings