Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadMatthew Poole Commentary - Isaiah 1:21 - 1:21
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
How, a note of admiration at so strange, and sad, and sudden a change,
is the faithful city, Jerusalem, which in the reign of former kings was faithful to God,
become an harlot is filled with idolatry, which is commonly called whoredom.
It was full of judgment; judgment was duly and truly executed in all its courts. Righteousness lodged in it; it was famous for being the seat of justice, which did not only pass through it, like a wayfaring man, but had its settled abode in it.
But now murderers; under that one gross kind he comprehends all sorts of unrighteous men and practices, as may be gathered by the opposition. Only their connivance at that horrid crime of murder is noted, to assure us that Other crimes of a lower nature were not only unpunished, but even encouraged.