Isaiah 3
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Lutheran reading notes
In Isaiah chapter 3, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of judgment, repentance, messianic hope, and restoration. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
Isaiah 3:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
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The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. {the honourable...: Heb. a man eminent in countenance} {eloquent...: or, skilful of speech}
Isaiah 3:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And I will give children {to be} their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
Isaiah 3:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
Isaiah 3:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, {saying}, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and {let} this ruin {be} under thy hand:
Isaiah 3:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house {is} neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people. {swear: Heb. lift up the hand} {healer: Heb. binder up}
Isaiah 3:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings {are} against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
Isaiah 3:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide {it} not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
Isaiah 3:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Say ye to the righteous, that {it shall be} well {with him}: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
Isaiah 3:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Woe unto the wicked! {it shall be} ill {with him}: for the reward of his hands shall be given him. {given...: Heb. done to him}
Isaiah 3:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{As for} my people, children {are} their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause {thee} to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. {lead...: or, call thee blessed} {destroy: Heb. swallow up}
Isaiah 3:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
Isaiah 3:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor {is} in your houses. {eaten: or, burnt}
Isaiah 3:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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What mean ye {that} ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
Isaiah 3:15 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing {as} they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: {wanton...: Heb. deceiving with their eyes} {mincing: or, tripping nicely}
Isaiah 3:16 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts. {discover: Heb. make naked}
Isaiah 3:17 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of {their} tinkling ornaments {about their feet}, and {their} cauls, and {their} round tires like the moon, {cauls: or, networks}
Isaiah 3:18 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, {chains: or, sweet balls} {mufflers: or, spangled ornaments}
Isaiah 3:19 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, {tablets: Heb. houses of the soul}
Isaiah 3:20 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The rings, and nose jewels,
Isaiah 3:21 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
Isaiah 3:22 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
Isaiah 3:23 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it shall come to pass, {that} instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; {and} burning instead of beauty.
Isaiah 3:24 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. {mighty: Heb. might}
Isaiah 3:25 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she {being} desolate shall sit upon the ground. {desolate: or, emptied: Heb. cleansed}
Isaiah 3:26 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.