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Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards: they don`t judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
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Corruption Starts at the Top
Commentators like John Calvin explain that Isaiah targets the 'princes' because societal decay often begins with its leaders. Calvin compares this to a disease spreading from the head to the whole body. When leaders are rebellious against God and collude with wrongdoers, the entire nation suffers, a timeless warning about the responsibility of authority.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Your princes ... - This is an explanation of the previous verse. Princes here mean those attached to the royal family; those who by rank o…
19th Century
Anglican
Your princes are rebellious. — The Hebrew words present an alliterative paronomasia (sârim, sôrerîm), which may be represented by…
16th Century
Protestant
Thy princes are rebellious. There is an elegant allusion or play on words here. He does not speak of princes in such a way as to …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Your princes [are] rebellious. Stubborn and obstinate, refused to receive and acknowledge the Messiah; such were the Jewish rulers,…
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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