Isaiah 1:28

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

²¹See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers! ²²Your silver has become dross, your fine wine is diluted with water. ²³Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them. ²⁴Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: "Ah, I will be relieved of My foes and avenge Myself on My enemies. ²⁵I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities. ²⁶I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. After that you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City." ²⁷Zion will be redeemed with justice, her repentant ones with righteousness. ²⁸But rebels and sinners will together be shattered, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.²⁹Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen. ³⁰For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the destruction: Heb. the breaking, Job 31:3, Psalms 1:6, Psalms 5:6, Psalms 37:38, Psalms 73:27, Psalms 92:9, Psalms 104:35, Psalms 125:5, Proverbs 29:1, Luke 12:45, Luke 12:46, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, 2 Thessalonians 1:8, 2 Thessalonians 1:9, 2 Peter 3:7, Revelation 21:8

they that: Isaiah 30:13, Isaiah 50:11, Isaiah 65:11, 1 Samuel 12:25, 1 Kings 9:6-9, 1 Chronicles 28:9, Zephaniah 1:4-6

Reciprocal: Joshua 24:20 - he will turn 1 Kings 14:15 - beyond the river 2 Chronicles 28:6 - because 2 Chronicles 28:23 - But they were Proverbs 11:3 - the perverseness Jeremiah 17:13 - they that Hebrews 6:6 - to renew

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:3
And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

Genesis 1:4
And seeing that the light was good, God separated the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:5
God called the light "day," and the darkness He called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning-the first day.

Genesis 1:17
God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth,

Genesis 1:18
to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:22
Then God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

Genesis 8:17
Bring out all the living creatures that are with you-birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground-so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it."

Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:7
But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners [shall be] together,.... Of the beast and false prophet, of the followers of antichrist, the man of sin, who are transgressors of the law of God, and sinners against the Lord; the destruction of these, or the breaking of them into shivers, as the word o signifies, see Revelation 2:27 will be at the time of Zion's redemption, and make a part of it; and it shall be all at once and together; these sinners will be all together consumed out of the earth, and these wicked antichristian ones will be no more in it, Psalms 104:35

and they that forsake the Lord; his word, his worship and ordinances; as the Papists have manifestly done, by setting up their own unwritten traditions against the word of God, by adulterating his ordinances, and introducing new ones, and by worshipping images of gold, silver, brass, and wood;

wherefore they shall be consumed; with the breath of Christ's mouth, and with the brightness of his coming, 2 Thessalonians 2:8.

o שבר "contritio sive confractio", Syr.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the destruction - Hebrew שׁבר sheber - the breaking, or crushing, that is, the punishment which was about to come upon them; compare Lamentations 2:11; Lamentations 3:47; Proverbs 16:18.

Of the transgressors - “Revolters,” or those that rebel against God.

And of the sinners - Of all the sinners in the nation, of all kinds and degrees.

Together - At the same time with the redemption of Zion.

Shall be consumed - יכלוּ yı̂kelû, from כלה kâlâh, to be completed, or finished; to be consumed, wasted away; to vanish, or disappear. It denotes complete and entire extinction; or the completing of anything. It is applied to a cloud of smoke, that entirely dissolves and disappears:

As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away:

So he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more,

Job 7:9.

But the wicked shall perish,

And the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs;

They shall consume,

Into smoke shall they cosume away.

Psalms 37:20.

It is applied to time, as vanishing and disappearing Job 7:6; and to the destruction or perishing of men; Jeremiah 16:4; Ezekiel 5:13. The idea is that of complete and entire consumption and destruction, so that none shall be left. Applied to future punishment, it means that the destruction of sinners shall be total and complete. There shall be no sinner who shall not be destroyed; and there shall be none destroyed whose destruction shall not be entire and total. The expression here refers to the heavy calamities which were about to come upon the guilty nation, but it is as descriptive of the future punishment that shall come upon the wicked.