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Isaiah
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For, behold, the Lord, GOD of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; See also: Leviticus 26:26Isaiah 1:24Ezekiel 14:13the mighty man, the man of war, the judge, the prophet, the diviner, the elder, See also: Isaiah 9:14-152 Kings 24:14-16Ezekiel 17:13the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter. See also: Exodus 18:21Judges 8:18Deuteronomy 1:15I will give boys to be their princes, and children shall rule over them. See also: Ecclesiastes 10:162 Chronicles 36:52 Chronicles 33:1The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the wicked against the honorable. See also: Jeremiah 9:3-8Malachi 3:5Jeremiah 22:17Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, “You have clothing, you be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand.” See also: Isaiah 4:1John 6:15Judges 11:6-8In that day he will cry out, saying, “I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing. You shall not make me ruler of the people.” See also: Hosea 5:13Ezekiel 34:4Deuteronomy 32:40For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory. See also: 1 Corinthians 10:22Ezekiel 9:9Hosea 7:16The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves. See also: Genesis 13:13Jeremiah 6:15Genesis 18:20-21Tell the righteous that it will be well with them, for they will eat the fruit of their deeds. See also: Psalms 128:1-2Hebrews 6:10Galatians 6:7-8Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them, for the deeds of their hands will be paid back to them. See also: Ecclesiastes 8:13James 2:13Psalms 120:3-4As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths. See also: Isaiah 3:4Nahum 3:13Isaiah 28:14-15The LORD stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples. See also: Micah 6:2Hosea 4:1-2Proverbs 22:22-23The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses. See also: Job 22:4Job 24:9Amos 4:1What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, GOD of Armies. See also: Micah 3:2-3Psalms 94:5Amos 8:4-6Moreover the LORD said, “Because the daughters of Zion are arrogant, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking daintily as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet; See also: Isaiah 32:9-11Ezekiel 16:49-50Proverbs 30:13therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and the LORD will make their scalps bald.” See also: Jeremiah 13:22Leviticus 13:29-30Micah 1:11In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces, See also: Judges 8:21Judges 8:26the earrings, the bracelets, the veils, See also: Ezekiel 16:11Exodus 35:22Genesis 24:53the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume containers, the charms, See also: Exodus 39:28Exodus 32:2Ezekiel 16:12the signet rings, the nose rings, See also: Genesis 24:471 Peter 3:3-4Esther 8:12the fine robes, the capes, the cloaks, the purses, the hand mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, and the shawls. See also: Genesis 24:651 Chronicles 15:27Luke 16:19It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty. See also: Ezekiel 27:31Lamentations 2:10Isaiah 15:3Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war. See also: Jeremiah 14:182 Chronicles 29:9Jeremiah 11:22Her gates shall lament and mourn. She shall be desolate and sit on the ground. See also: Lamentations 2:10Jeremiah 14:2Lamentations 1:4
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)17 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 3:1
Ver. 1. Strong. Heb. and Sept. imply, "woman." H. --- Validam. S. Cyp. Test. i. ---
After the death of Christ, the Jews had none strong. S. Jerom --- Strength. Heb.
"staff," or support (Lev.
xxvi. 26.) in the dreadful famine which fell on Jerusalem. Lam. iv. 5. 10. Who then shall rely on the power of any man? C. ii. 22. C. --- The Jews were depressed at the sieges of their city, and will be so till the end of the world. W.
↑ 1Isaiah 3:2
Ver. 2. Prophet. Ezechiel was taken away under Jechonias. Other prophets were disregarded, and the cunning man, ( ariolus, which may be understood in a good or bad sense. C.) every false prophet was silent, when danger threatened.
↑ 2Isaiah 3:3
Ver. 3. Countenance. Sept. "the admired counsellor," (H.) who came into the king's presence. ---
Architect. 4 K. xxiv. 14. C. --- Eloquent. Lit. "mystic." H. --- Aquila and Sym.
"enchanter."
↑ 3Isaiah 3:4
Ver. 4. Effeminate. Heb. "babes." Sept. "scoffers." Aquila, &c. "changers," (C.) who give way to unnatural excesses. Rom. i. 27. H. --- Some manifest a prudence beyond their years: but the last kings of Juda did not. 2 Par. xxxvi. 1.
Eccle. x. 16.
↑ 4Isaiah 3:5
Ver. 5. People. They were divided, whether they should continue to obey Nabuchodonosor, or listen to the Egyptians. Ismael slew Godolias. Jer. xli.
↑ 5Isaiah 3:6
Ver. 6. Garment. They were ready to follow any, who was not quite destitute, like themselves.
Jer. xxxix. 10. --- Ruin. Fallen people.
↑ 6Isaiah 3:7
Ver. 7. Clothing. The indigent were excluded from dignities, for fear lest they should seek to enrich themselves by unjustifiable means. Ex. xviii. 22. Plut. in Sol. Pliny xvi. 19. C.
↑ 7Isaiah 3:8
Ver. 8. For. The prophet tells what will happen. M. --- And their. Sept. "are sinful, disbelieving what regards the Lord. Wherefore now their glory is brought low." H. --- They must have followed a very different Hebrew copy from ours. C.
↑ 8Isaiah 3:9
Ver. 9. Shew, ( agnitio. ) "Knowledge." W. --- Impudence, &c. C. --- Hacurath (H.) occurs no where else. C. --- From their countenance we may judge that they are proud, &c. M.
↑ 9Isaiah 3:10
Ver. 10. Well. Jeremias (xxxix. 11.) was treated by the enemy with great respect.
Sept. "having said, let us bind the just man, for he is troublesome, (H.) or displeasing (C.) to us. Hence they,"
&c. H. Wisd. ii. 12. Many of the Fathers quote it thus. But our version agrees well with the original, as Isaias joins consoling predictions with those which are of a distressing nature. C. ---
Yet the Sept. seem to have thrown light on the Heb. by supplying an omission from the book of Wisdom. Houbig. --- Thus all must be explained of the wicked, whose malice shall be punished.
--- He shall. S. Jer. and all versions read, "they shall eat the fruit of their doings, or devices."
Fructum adinventionum suarum comedent. H. --- All who hear of this must applaud the just God for acting well in their punishment. According to the Sept. Christ and his adversaries are clearly pointed out. S. Jer.
↑ 10Isaiah 3:12
Ver. 12. Women. "Let no women be our senate, as the impious Porphyrius objects." The scribes and Pharisees sought for lucre and pleasure. The teacher approved by the Church must excite tears and not laughter; he must correct sinners, and pronounce no one blessed. S. Jer. H. --- The last kings of Juda were real tyrants, and weak as women. C. --- Blessed. Prot. marg. and the text has, "lead thee."
↑ 12Isaiah 3:16
Ver. 16. Pace. Prot. "and making a tinkling with their feet," (H.) by means of little rings round their legs. C. Stridore ad se juvenes vocat. S. Jer. ep. xlvii. ---
The daughters of Sion, denote all the cities and villages which were defaced by the Chaldees, and still more by the Romans, forty years after Christ. S. Jer. W.
↑ 16Isaiah 3:17
Ver. 17. Bald. Like slaves. Deut. xxi. 12. --- Hair. Heb. and Sept. "shame."
↑ 17Isaiah 3:18
Ver. 18. Of shoes. Heb. "gold tissue." Ps. xliv. 14. This term occurs no where else, and many of these superfluous ornaments are not well known. But we may conclude that they are pernicious to a state, and hateful to God. C. ---
Decorem...invitatorem libidinis scimus. Tert. cult.
↑ 18Isaiah 3:24
Ver. 24. Stench. The Jews are noted on this account, as if in consequence of this curse, or of their being confined to prisons, &c. Fœtentium Judæorum et tumultuantium sæpe tædio percitus.
--- M. Aurelius "was often weary of the stinking and seditious Jews." Marcellin ii.
↑ 24Isaiah 3:25
Ver. 25. Fairest. They shall not be spared. C. --- "As they have perished by their beauty, their fairest," &c. Chal.
↑ 25Isaiah 3:26
Ver. 26. Ground. The posture of captives. Lam. i. 1.
↑ 26License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses