Isaiah 57:3-13
1599 Geneva Bible
3 But you [a]witches’ children, come hither, the seed of the adulterer and of the whore.
4 On whom have ye jested? upon whom have ye gaped and thrust out your tongue? are not ye rebellious children, and a false seed?
5 Inflamed with idols under every green tree? and sacrificing the [b]children in the valleys under the tops of the rocks?
6 Thy portion is in the smooth stones [c]of the river: they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering: thou hast offered a sacrifice. Should I delight in [d]these?
7 Thou hast made thy [e]bed upon a very high mountain: thou wentest up thither, even thither wentest thou to offer sacrifice.
8 Behind the [f]doors also and posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another, than me, and wentest up, and didst [g]enlarge thy bed, and make a covenant between thee and them, and lovedst their bed in every place where thou sawest it.
9 Thou wentest [h]to the kings with oil, and didst increase thine ointments, and send thy messengers far off, and didst humble thyself unto hell.
10 Thou weariedst thyself in thy manifold journeys, yet saidest thou not, [i]There is no hope: thou [j]hast found life by thine hand, therefore thou wast not grieved.
11 And whom didst thou reverence or fear, seeing thou hast [k]lied unto me, and hast not remembered me, neither set thy mind thereon? is it not because I hold my peace, and that of long [l]time? therefore thou fearest not me.
12 I will declare thy righteousness [m]and thy works, and they shall not profit thee.
13 When thou cryest, let them that thou hast gathered together, deliver thee: but the wind [n]shall take them all away: vanity shall pull them away: but he that trusteth in me shall inherit the land, and shall possess mine holy Mountain.
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- Isaiah 57:3 He threateneth the wicked hypocrites, who under the pretence of the name of God’s people, derided God’s word and his promises: boasting openly that they were the children of Abraham, but because they were not faithful and obedient as Abraham was, he calleth them bastards, and the children of sorcerers, which forsook God, and fled to wicked means for succor.
- Isaiah 57:5 Read Lev. 18:21; 2 Kings 23:10.
- Isaiah 57:6 Meaning, every place was polluted with their idolatry: or every fair stone that they found, they made an idol of it.
- Isaiah 57:6 In the sacrifices which you offering before these idols, thought you did serve God.
- Isaiah 57:7 To wit, thine altars in an open place, like an impudent harlot, that careth not for the sight of her husband.
- Isaiah 57:8 Instead of setting up the word of God in the open places on the posts and doors to have it in remembrance, Deut. 6:9 and 27:1, thou hast set up signs and marks of thine idolatry in every place.
- Isaiah 57:8 That is, didst increase thine idolatry more and more.
- Isaiah 57:9 Thou didst seek the favor of the Assyrians by gifts and presents to help thee against the Egyptians: and when they failed thou soughtest to the Babylonians, and more and more didst torment thyself.
- Isaiah 57:10 Although thou sawest all thy labors to be in vain, yet wouldest thou never acknowledge thy fault, and leave off.
- Isaiah 57:10 He derideth their unprofitable diligence, which thought to have made all sure, and yet were deceived.
- Isaiah 57:11 Broken promise with me.
- Isaiah 57:11 Meaning, that the wicked abuse God’s lenity, and grow to further wickedness.
- Isaiah 57:12 That is, thy naughtiness, idolatries, and impieties which the wicked call God’s service: thus he derideth their obstinacy.
- Isaiah 57:13 Meaning, the Assyrians and others, whose help they looked for.
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