Isaiah 3:25 (BSB)
Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.
From Isaiah 3. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Isaiah 3:25
- John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Isaiah 3:25: 25. Thy men shall fall by the sword. He directs his discourse to Jerusalem and to the whole kingdom of Judah; for, after having demonstrated that the whole body is infected with a plague, and that no part of it is free from disease, and after leaving not even spared the women, he returns to the general doctrine.
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Isaiah 3:16-26: The prophet's business was to show all sorts of people what they had contributed to the national guilt and what share they must expect in the national judgments that were coming. Here he reproves and warns the daughters of Zion, tells the ladies of their faults; and Moses, in the law, having denounced God's wrath against the tender and delicate woman (the prophets being a...
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Isaiah 3:25: Thy men shall fall by the sword,.... Of the Romans; which would be a punishment to the women for their pride and luxury, being deprived thereby of their husbands: and thy mighty in the war; of Vespasian and Titus, and which the Jews (i) call , "the war of Vespasian": in which great multitudes of men, even of mighty men, were slain. (i) Misn. Sabbat, c. 6. sect. 3.
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Isaiah 3:25: Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. (t) Meaning that God will not only punish the women but their husbands who have permitted this dissoluteness and also the commonwealth which has not remedied it.