Isaiah 3:9 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 3:9

The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.

BSB

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ASV

The show 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 done evil unto themselves.

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

The shew of their countenance doth witness against them,.... The word translated "shew" is only used in this place.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The 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 character, and betrays their plans.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הַכָּרַ֤ת	ha.ka.Rat	[the] expression of	H1971 →
פְּנֵיהֶם֙	pe.nei.Hem	faces their	H6440 →
עָ֣נְתָה	'A.ne.tah	it has testified	H6030 →
בָּ֔ם	Bam	against them
וְחַטָּאתָ֛ם	ve.cha.ta.Tam	and sin their	H2403 →
כִּסְדֹ֥ם	kis.Dom	like Sodom	H5467 →
הִגִּ֖ידוּ	hi.Gi.du	they have declared	H5046 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
כִחֵ֑דוּ	khi.Che.du	they have hidden [it]	H3582 →
א֣וֹי	'o	woe!	H188 →
לְנַפְשָׁ֔ם	le.naf.Sham	to self their	H5315 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
גָמְל֥וּ	ga.me.Lu	they have done	H1580 →
לָהֶ֖ם	la.Hem	to themselves
רָעָֽה׃	ra.'Ah	harm	H7451 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
leads to
- John 3:36
  Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
- Romans 5:12
  Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
- James 1:15
  Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
- John 6:40
  For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
- Ezekiel 18:20
  The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of…
Through
Jeremiah 3:3
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.
leads to
- Leviticus 26:19
  I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
- Jeremiah 5:24
  They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
- Isaiah 5:6
  I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”

About Isaiah

The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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