Isaiah 57:4 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 57:4

Whom are you mocking? At whom do you snarl and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit,

BSB

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ASV

Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

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,

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Vers. 3, 4.) But you come here, sons of a fortune teller: whose seed have you played with? Whose mouth have you opened wide, and whose tongue have you cast out? LXX: But you come here, wicked sons, seed of adulterers and prostitutes, with whom have you played? Whose mouth have you opened: and whose tongue have you cast out? By removing the just one, whose burial is in peace, indeed by removing from the midst, you who are sons of wickedness, come to me, and hear what I say (John 8).

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Against whom do ye sport yourselves?.... Is it against the ministers of the Gospel, the prophets of the Lord, the true and faithful witnesses, over whose dead bodies you triumph? know that it is not so much against them, as against the Lord himself, whose ministers, prophets, and witnesses they are; see 1Th 4:8, "against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue?" gestures used by way of scorn and derision; see Psa 22:

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

Against 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 did this. Were they aware of the majesty and glory of that Being whom they thus derided?

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
מִי֙	mi	whom?	H4310 →
תִּתְעַנָּ֔גוּ	tit.'a.Na.gu	are you making fun	H6026 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
מִ֛י	mi	whom?	H4310 →
תַּרְחִ֥יבוּ	tar.Chi.vu	do you make wide	H7337 →
פֶ֖ה	feh	a mouth	H6310 →
תַּאֲרִ֣יכוּ	ta.'a.Ri.khu	do you make long?	H748 →
לָשׁ֑וֹן	la.Shon	a tongue	H3956 →
הֲלֽוֹא־	ha.lo'-	¿ not	H3808 →
אַתֶּ֥ם	'a.Tem	[are] you	H859 →
יִלְדֵי־	yil.dei-	children of	H3206 →
פֶ֖שַׁע	Fe.sha'	transgression of	H6588 →
זֶ֥רַע	Ze.ra'	spring of	H2233 →
שָֽׁקֶר׃	Sha.ker	deception	H8267 →

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

The walk

The walk8

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
Isaiah 10:15
Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or…
leads to
- Romans 9:20–21
  But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”
- Isaiah 45:9
  Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
- Isaiah 10:5
  Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
Through
2 Peter 2:13
The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with…
leads to
- Romans 13:13
  Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
- Romans 2:8–9
  But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
- Hebrews 2:2–3
  For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment,
Through
Isaiah 1:4
Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on…
leads to
- Isaiah 5:24
  Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected…
- Jeremiah 2:17
  Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?

About Isaiah

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

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Isaiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Isaiah