Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Pride and stoutness of heart "Carry themselves haughtily" - veyadeu , "and they shall know;" so ours and the Versions in general. But what is it that they shall know? The verb stands destitute of its object; and the sense is imperfect. The Chaldee is the only one, as far as I can find, that expresses it otherwise. He renders the verb in this place by veithrabrabu , "they exalt themselves, or carry themselves haughtily; the same word by which he renders gabehu , Isaiah 3:16. He seems, therefore, in this place to have read vaiyigbehu , which agrees perfectly well with what follows, and clears up the difficulty. Archbishop Secker conjectured vayedabberu , referring it to lemor , in the next verse, which shows that he was not satisfied with the present reading. Houbigant reads vaiyereu , et pravi facti sunt , they are become wicked, which is found in a MS.; but I prefer the reading of the Chaldee, which suits much better with the context.
Houbigant approves of this reading; but it is utterly unsupported by any evidence from antiquity: it is a mere mistake of resh for daleth ; and I am surprised that it should be favored by Houbigant.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Isaiah 9:9:
Isaiah 9:7
Isaiah 13:19
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