Isaiah 9:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Have no joy

For every

Matthew 16:3

Every mouth

Isaiah 32:6

Matthew 12:34

For all

General references

Isaiah 40:30

Matthew 24:8

Bible References

Have no joy

So as to deprive the needy of justice
And rob the poor of My people of their rights,
So that widows may be their spoil
And that they may plunder the orphans.

And their bows will mow down the young men,
They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb,
Nor will their eye pity children.

When its limbs are dry, they are broken off;
Women come and make a fire with them,
For they are not a people of discernment,
Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them.
And their Creator will not be gracious to them.

For as a young man marries a virgin,
So your sons will marry you;
And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
So your God will rejoice over you.

“I will also rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people;
And there will no longer be heard in her
The voice of weeping and the sound of crying.

He does not delight in the strength of the horse;
He does not take pleasure in the legs of a man.

Therefore, give their children over to famine
And deliver them up to the power of the sword;
And let their wives become childless and widowed.
Let their men also be smitten to death,
Their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

For what

comeliness and beauty will be theirs!

Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

For every

I send it against a godless nation
And commission it against the people of My fury
To capture booty and to seize plunder,
And to trample them down like mud in the streets.

“For the company of the godless is barren,
And fire consumes the tents of the corrupt.

“Roam to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem,
And look now and take note.
And seek in her open squares,
If you can find a man,

If there is one who does justice, who seeks truth,

Then I will pardon her.

The godly person has perished from the land,
And there is no upright person among men.
All of them lie in wait for bloodshed;
Each of them hunts the other with a net.

And in the morning, ‘There will be a storm today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Do you know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but cannot discern the signs of the times?

Every mouth

For a fool speaks nonsense,
And his heart

inclines toward wickedness:

To practice ungodliness and to speak error against the Lord,
To

keep the hungry person unsatisfied

And to withhold drink from the thirsty.

You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.

For all

The Arameans on the east and the Philistines on the west;
And they devour Israel with gaping jaws.

In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away

And His hand is still stretched out.

On this account the anger of the Lord has burned against His people,
And He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down.
And the mountains quaked, and their corpses lay like refuse in the middle of the streets.

For all this His anger is not spent,

But His hand is still stretched out.

Nothing remains but to crouch among the captives
Or fall among the slain.

In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away

And His hand is still stretched out.

“As I live,” declares the Lord God, “surely with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out, I shall be king over you.

General references

Though youths grow weary and tired,
And vigorous young men stumble badly,

But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.