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How is the faithful city become a prostitute! she who was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
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The Shock of Spiritual Adultery
Commentators explain that Isaiah uses the shocking image of a faithful wife becoming a harlot to describe Jerusalem's fall. The city, once devoted to God like a bride to her husband, has committed spiritual adultery by turning to idolatry. The prophet's lament, "How is...", expresses deep grief and horror at this profound betrayal of the sacred relationship between God and His people.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
How is - This is an expression of deploring, or lamenting. It indicates that what had occurred was a matter of grief. The prophet had stated…
19th Century
Anglican
How is the faithful city become an harlot! ...—The opening word, as in Lamentations 1:1, is the keynote of an elegiac wai…
16th Century
Protestant
How is the faithful city become an harlot! To make the rebuke more forceful and the people's crime more shocking—their having departed in …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
How is the faithful city become a harlot ! &c.] The city of Jerusalem, in which were the temple, and the pure worshi…
Neither holy cities nor royal ones are faithful to their trust if religion does not dwell in them. Dross may shine like silver, and wine that is mi…
13th Century
Catholic
How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? Here, the prophet shows their sin of turning away from jus…
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