Isaiah 3:9 (WEB)
The 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.
Fathers and councils · 8
Cyril of Jerusalem
“Esaias says, Woe unto their soul, for they have taken evil counsel against themselves, saying, Let us bind the Just, for He is troublesome to us.” — editor's note: Isa. iii. 9: (R.V.) they have rewarded evil unto themselves. Say ye of the righteous, that it shall be well with him/ In the Septuagint, from which Cyril…
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Justin Martyr
“And again, in other words: ‘Woe unto them that draw their iniquity as with a long cord, and their transgressions as with the harness of a heifer’s yoke: who say, Let his speed come near; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it.” — editor's note: Isa. iii. 9 ff.
Read the whole comment“Why do you wrong my people, and put to shame the countenance of the humble?’” — editor's note: Isa. iii. 9–15.
Read the whole comment“Therefore ‘woe unto their soul,’ says the Lord, ‘for they have devised an evil counsel against themselves, saying, Let us take away the righteous, for he is distasteful to us.’” — editor's note: Isa. iii. 9.
Read the whole comment“For, mentioning the Scripture which says, ‘Woe unto them! for they have devised evil counsel against themselves, saying’ (as the Seventy have translated, I continued): ‘Let us take away the righteous, for he is distasteful to us;’ whereas at the commencement of the discussion I…” — editor's note: Isa. iii. 9.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“For who that looks upon their dispersion, and the desolation of their city, may not aptly say, ‘Woe unto them, for they have imagined an evil imagination, saying against their own soul, let us bind the righteous man, because he is not pleasing to us.’” — editor's note: Is. iii. 9, 10, LXX.; cf. Wisd. ii. 12.
Read the whole comment“And what their end is, the prophet foretold, crying, ‘Woe unto their soul, for they have devised an evil thought, saying, let us bind the just man, because he is not pleasing to us.’” — editor's note: Is. iii. 9, 10; Wisd. ii. 12.
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Gregory the Great
“Hence it is written, They have declared their sin as Sodom, neither have they hidden it (Isai. iii. 9).” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 17 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 133.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 17 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 133.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 133.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 133.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 133.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 133.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 17.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 136.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 137.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 17.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.32.