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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 3:9 - 3:9
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show - The Hebrew means, “that which may be known by their countenances” [Gesenius and Weiss]. But Maurer translates, “Their respect for person”; so Syriac and Chaldee. But the parallel word “declare” favors the other view. Kimchi, from the Arabic, translates “their hardness” (Job 19:3, Margin), or impudence of countenance (Jer 3:3). They have lost not only the substance of virtue, but its color.
witness - literally, “corresponds” to them; their look answers to their inner character (Hos 5:5).
declare - (Jud 1:13). “Foaming out their own shame”; so far from making it a secret, “glorying” in it (Phi 3:19).
unto themselves - Compare “in themselves” (Pro 1:31; Pro 8:36; Jer 2:19; Rom 1:27).