Isaiah 9:17 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 9:17

Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

BSB

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ASV

Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

KJV

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. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Vers. 14 seqq.) And the Lord will scatter from Israel the head and the tail, the bend and the corrupt in one day. The venerable and honorable, he is the head; and the Prophet teaching falsehood, he is the tail. And there will be those who call this people blessed, deceiving, and those who are called blessed, being cast down. Therefore, the Lord will not rejoice over his young men, and will not have mercy on his orphans and widows, for every hypocrite is wicked, and every mouth has spoken foolishness.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Fatherless - Who are the special objects of his care and pity, and much less upon others. Everyone - 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.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

Shall have no joy - He shall not delight in them so as to preserve them. The parallel part of the verse shows that the phrase is used in the sense of having mercy. In their young men - The hope and strength of the nation. The word used here commonly denotes those who are chosen, particularly for purposes of war. The sense is, that the hope and strength of the nation, that on which the chief reliance would be placed, would be cut off.

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Original language & word study

29 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
עַל־	'al-	there-	H5921 →
כֵּ֨ן	ken	-fore	H3651 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
בַּחוּרָ֜יו	ba.chu.Rav	young men its	H970 →
לֹֽא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
יִשְׂמַ֣ח׀	yis.Mach	he rejoices	H8055 →
אֲדֹנָ֗י	'a.do.Nai	[the] Lord	H136 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
יְתֹמָ֤יו	ye.to.Mav	fatherless ones its	H3490 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
אַלְמְנֹתָיו֙	'al.me.no.Tav	widows its	H490 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
יְרַחֵ֔ם	ye.ra.Chem	he has compassion on	H7355 →
כִּ֤י	ki	for	H3588 →
כֻלּוֹ֙	khu.Lo	all of it	H3605 →
חָנֵ֣ף	cha.Nef	[is] godless	H2611 →
וּמֵרַ֔ע	u.me.Ra'	and doing evil	H7489 →
וְכָל־	ve.khol	and every	H3605 →
פֶּ֖ה	peh	mouth	H6310 →
דֹּבֵ֣ר	do.Ver	[is] speaking	H1696 →
נְבָלָ֑ה	ne.va.Lah	disgraceful folly	H5039 →
בְּכָל־	be.khol	for all	H3605 →
זֹאת֙	zoT	this	H2063 →
לֹא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
שָׁ֣ב	shav	it has turned back	H7725 →
אַפּ֔וֹ	'a.Po	anger his	H639 →
וְע֖וֹד	ve.'od	and still	H5750 →
יָד֥וֹ	ya.Do	hand his	H3027 →
נְטוּיָֽה׃	ne.tu.Yah	[is] stretched out	H5186 →

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
Matthew 12:34
You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
leads to
- Luke 6:45
  The good man brings good things out of the good treasure of his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil treasure of his heart. For out of the overflow…
- Matthew 15:18
  But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a man.
- Ephesians 4:29
  Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.
- 1 Samuel 24:13
  As the old proverb says, ‘Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.’ But my hand will never be against you.
- James 3:5–8
  In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.
Through
Isaiah 5:25
Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lay like refuse in the streets. Despite all…
leads to
- Isaiah 9:21
  Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh; together they turn against Judah. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 10:4
  Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives or fall among the slain. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
- 2 Kings 9:37
  And Jezebel’s body will lie like dung in the field on the plot of ground at Jezreel, so that no one can say: This is Jezebel.’”

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