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Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? Aren`t you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,
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Mocking God's Word is Mocking God
Commentators unanimously explain that the derisive actions described—making sport and sticking out the tongue—were directed at God's prophets. However, the ultimate target was God Himself. Scholars like Calvin and Gill stress that when people mock God's word or His messengers, they are, in fact, mocking God.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Against whom do you sport yourselves? - The word here rendered ‘sport’ (ענג ‛ānag) means properly “to live delicately and …
19th Century
Anglican
Against whom do you sport yourselves? —The question, as in Isaiah 37:23, is one of indignant scorn, the implied answer be…
Baptist
Because this people so exalted themselves against God and his gospel, God would not acknowledge them as the true seed of Israel at all. He declares…
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16th Century
Protestant
On whom have you made sport? The Prophet shows that there is no reason why the Jews should boast so proudly on the pretense of their birth…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Against whom do you sport yourselves ? &c.] Is it against the ministers of the Gospel, the prophets of the Lord, the true…
The Lord here calls apostates and hypocrites to appear before him. When reproved for their sins, and threatened with judgments, they ridiculed the …
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13th Century
Catholic
The just perishes. Here the prophet shows the difference between those who obey God’s counsels and those who do not, conc…
