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Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the princes of it: It is you who have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses:
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Leaders Face a Higher Judgment
Commentators stress that God holds leaders—the "elders" and "princes"—to a strict account. Their high rank does not grant them immunity from judgment. Instead, as John Calvin highlights, their authority increases their responsibility. God summons them to His court specifically because they abused the power He entrusted to them over His people.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
With the ancients ... – With the old men, the counselors.
You have eaten up the vineyard – Hebrew ‘You have burnt up
16th Century
Protestant
The Lord will enter into judgement with the ancients of his people. Previously, he had established for God a throne from which He might pl…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes of it
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The rule was certain; whatever national prosperity or trouble might exist, it would be well with the righteous and ill with the wicked. Blessed be …
13th Century
Catholic
For Jerusalem is ruined. Here the author explains the reason for this renunciation.
First, he presents the immediate caus…
