Isaiah 3:2

Isaiah 3:2

Judgment on Judah and Jerusalem

1 For behold, the¹ Lord, the Lord of hosts,
^aTakes away from Jerusalem and from Judah
^bThe stock and the store,
The whole supply of bread and the whole supply of water;

2 ^aThe mighty man and the man of war,
The judge and the prophet,
And the diviner and the elder;

3 The captain of fifty and the¹ honorable man,
The counselor and the skillful artisan,
And the expert enchanter.

4 “I will give ^achildren to be their princes,
And¹ babes shall rule over them.

5 The people will be oppressed,
Every one by another and every one by his neighbor;
The child will be insolent toward the¹ elder,
And the¹ base toward the honorable.”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Fulfilled (II Kings 24:14).

prudent—the Hebrew often means a "soothsayer" (Deuteronomy 18:10-14); thus it will mean, the diviners, on whom they rely, shall in that day fail. It is found in a good sense (Proverbs 16:10), from which passage the Jews interpret it a king; "without" whom Israel long has been (Hosea 3:4).

ancient—old and experienced (I Kings 12:6-8).

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