Jesaja 9:17

Schlachter Bibel

Denn das gottlose Wesen brannte wie ein Feuer, das Hecken und Dornen fraß und die dichten Wälder anzündete, daß Rauchsäulen emporwirbelten.

Parallel Translations

Lutherbible (1912)
Darum kann sich der HERR über die junge Mannschaft nicht freuen noch ihrer Waisen und Witwen erbarmen; denn sie sind allzumal Heuchler und böse, und aller Mund redet Torheit. In dem allem läßt sein Zorn noch nicht ab; seine Hand ist noch ausgereckt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

have no joy: Isaiah 10:2, Isaiah 13:18, Isaiah 27:11, Isaiah 62:5, Isaiah 65:19, Psalms 147:10, Jeremiah 18:21, Zechariah 9:17

for every: Isaiah 10:6, Job 15:34, Jeremiah 5:1, Micah 7:2, Matthew 16:3

every mouth: Isaiah 32:6, Isaiah 32:7, Matthew 12:34

folly: or, villany

For all: Isaiah 9:12, Isaiah 9:21, Isaiah 5:25, Isaiah 10:4, Ezekiel 20:33

Reciprocal: Exodus 6:6 - redeem Deuteronomy 33:7 - let his hands Psalms 138:7 - thou shalt stretch Isaiah 31:3 - stretch Isaiah 33:14 - the hypocrites Isaiah 40:30 - General Jeremiah 4:8 - the Jeremiah 6:12 - I will Jeremiah 21:5 - with an Ezekiel 6:14 - will I Ezekiel 14:9 - and I will Ezekiel 16:27 - I have Matthew 6:2 - as Matthew 24:8 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men,.... Take no delight and pleasure in them; but, on the contrary, detest and abhor them, and so destroy them, being depraved and corrupted by the bad instructions and examples of their parents:

neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows; who are objects of pity and compassion; yet these being wicked, as well as the fathers of the one, and the husbands of the other, shall be no more spared than they have been; so that this expresses both the general corruption and destruction of this people:

for everyone [is] a hypocrite and an evildoer; a hypocrite, as Aben Ezra on the place observes, is one that is outwardly good, and inwardly wicked; which was the general character of the people of Israel in Isaiah's time, as it was of the Jews in the times of Christ, see Matthew 23:25 they pretended to do good, but were doers of evil, workers of iniquity, continually committing sin; and yet would be thought to be very upright and sincere, both in their religion towards God, and in their dealings with men; but deceitful in both:

and every mouth speaketh folly; or falsehood; a lie, as the Targum, as all lies are foolish; as also all vain words, all impious ones; or the savour of irreligion or superstition, and indeed every idle word, and all unsavoury and corrupt speech, and there is particularly foolish talking, which is not convenient, Ephesians 5:4:

for all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still; which is repeated from Isaiah 9:12.

Isaiah 9:12- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.

Neither shall have mercy ... - Judgment would sweep through the nation, even over those who were the usual objects of the divine protection - widows and orphans; compare Psalms 10:14, Psalms 10:18; Psalms 48:5; Deuteronomy 10:18; Jeremiah 49:11; Hosea 14:3. These passages show that the fatherless and the widow are the special objects of the divine favor; and when, therefore, it is said that the Lord would not have mercy been on these, it shows the extent and severity of the divine judgments that were coming on the nation.

For every one is a hypocrite - A deceiver; a dissembler. The word used here, however. חנף chânêph, means rather a profane or profligate man, a man who is defiled or polluted, than a dissembler. It is applied often to idolaters and licentious persons, but not to hypocrites; see Job 8:13; Job 13:16; Job 15:34; Job 17:8; Daniel 11:32.

Every mouth speaketh folly - The word rendered folly, may denote foolishness, but it is also used to denote wickedness or crime; 1 Samuel 25:23. Probably this is the meaning here. That the character here given of the Ephraimites is correct, is abundantly shown also by other prophets; see particularly Hosea.

For all this - Notwithstanding all the judgments that should come thus upon the young men, and widows, and orphans, still his anger was not turned away. This is the close of the second strophe or part of this prophecy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 9:17. The Lord - "JEHOVAH"] For אדני Adonai, a great number of MSS. read יהוה Yehovah.