Isaiah 28:22

Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
mockers	תִּתְלוֹצָ֔צוּ tit.lo.Tza.tzu	H3887	properly · verb, hithpael jussive, 2nd person masculine plural
bands	מֽוֹסְרֵיכֶ֑ם mos.rei.Khem	H4147	properly · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
strong	יֶחְזְק֖וּ yech.ze.Ku	H2388	to fasten upon · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
heard	שָׁמַ֗עְתִּי sha.Ma'.ti	H8085	to hear intelligently (often with implication of attent… · verb, qal perfect, 1st person common singular
Lord	אֲדֹנָ֧י 'a.do.Nai	H136	the Lord (used as a proper name of God only) · proper noun, a title
GOD	יְהוִ֛ה Yah.weh	H3069	YHWH · proper noun, a title
hosts	צְבָא֖וֹת tze.va.'ot	H6635	a mass of persons (or figuratively · noun, common feminine plural absolute
consumption	כָלָ֨ה kha.Lah	H3617	a completion · noun, common feminine singular absolute
determined	וְנֶחֱרָצָ֜ה ve.ne.che.ra.Tzah	H2782	properly · conjunction + verb, niphal active participle, feminine singular absolute
earth	הָאָֽרֶץ ha.'A.retz	H776	the earth (at large · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Isaiah 10:22-23 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righ…
Isaiah 24:1-23 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
2 Chronicles 30:10 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and moc…
2 Chronicles 36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his peopl…
Psalms 107:16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Isaiah 28:14-15 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 32:12-14 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
Jeremiah 15:17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 28:14-22

The prophet, having reproved those that made a jest of the word of God, here goes on to reprove those that made a jest of the judgments of God, and set them at defiance; for he is a jealous God, and will not suffer either his ordinances or his providences to be brought into contempt. He addressed himself to the scornful men who ruled in Jerusalem, who were the magistrates of the city, Isa 28:14. It is bad with a people when their thrones of judgment become the seats of the scornful, when rulers are scorners; but that the rulers of Jerusalem should be men of such a character, that they should make light of God's judgments and scorn to take notice of the tokens of his displeasure, is very sad.…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 28:22

mockers--a sin which they had committed (Isa 28:9-10). bands--their Assyrian bondage (Isa 10:27); Judah was then tributary to Assyria; or, "lest your punishment be made still more severe" (Isa 24:22). consumption--destruction (Isa 10:22-23; Dan 9:27).

John Gill on Isaiah 28:22

Now therefore be ye not mockers,.... At the words of the prophets, and the judgments denounced by them, which is very common, when they are deferred, and not immediately executed: this was the case before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, and one cause of it, 2 Chronicles 36:16 and also by the Romans; see Acts 13:41, lest your bands be made strong; punishment become heavier, and more grievous; and so the Syriac version renders it; as prisoners that attempt to make their escape have their bonds and fetters made faster, and so are put to more pain and distress; to which the allusion seems to be, signifying, that by scoffing and mocking at the word of God they would bring upon the…

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John Calvin on Isaiah 28:22

Now therefore. He again reminds those wicked men, whom he had formerly called "scorners," (verse 14,) that their cunning, and contempt, and jeers, and mockery, will avail them nothing, because all their ingenuity will be thwarted; and he exhorts them to repentance, if there still be any of them that are capable of being cured. For this reason he repeats the same threatenings, in order to arouse them. Lest your chains be more firmly fastened. He says that all that they will gain by resistance will be to draw themselves more firmly into their nets. Instead of "chains," there are some who render mvsrym (mOsErim) "chastisements;" but this does not agree with the context. The metaphor of "chains…

The Church Fathers

They do not understand that God grants to each period of time what is appropriate. As he commanded marriage in the law, so in the gospel does he recommend virginity. In the law, an eye is to be offered for an eye, but in the gospel, the other side of the cheek is to be offered to one's assailant. The former arrangement was for a weak people, whereas the latter is for the perfect. Nevertheless each order was adapted to its proper time. Yet it is not to be believed on the basis of this change that God is mutable. Instead, it should be proclaimed a miracle that while remaining immutable himself, God gave to each era its own distinctly appropriate order.Sins were of lesser guilt under the Old Testament because only a shadow of the truth, not truth itself, was present therein. For the higher precepts of the New Testament reveal that we are to forsake some of those things to which the people of the shadow of truth were bound. Previously, for instance, fornication and the taking of retribution for injuries were permitted without punishment. In the New Testament, however, they are condemned with severe punishments. The creed and the Lord's Prayer replace the whole law in sufficing to obtain the kingdom of heaven for the little ones of the church. For the entire breadth of Scripture is contained briefly in the Lord's Prayer and the creed. Thus does the prophet Isaiah say, "I heard from the Lord God of hosts about an abbreviation upon all the earth."
— Isidore of Seville, THREE BOOKS OF THOUGHTS 1:20.1-21:1

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Bands — (1) of love (Hos. 11:4); (2) of Christ (Ps. 2:3); (3) uniting together Christ’s body the church (Col. 2:19; 3:14; Eph. 4:3); (4) the emblem of the captivity of Israel (Ezek. 34:27; Isa. 28:22; 52:2);…
Infidelity · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Mocking · The har — The har
Presumption · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Prophecy · .Inspired — .Inspired
Sin · .No es — .No es

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Isaiah 28:22

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 28:14-22

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 28:22

John Gill on Isaiah 28:22

John Calvin on Isaiah 28:22

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Isaiah 28:22

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 28:14-22

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 28:22

John Gill on Isaiah 28:22

John Calvin on Isaiah 28:22

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Isaiah 28:22

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Isaiah 28:21

Rashi on Isaiah 28:22