Isaiah 9:17 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows… The desolation should be as general as the corruption has been, and none should escape it. 1. Not those that were the objects of complacency; none shall be spared for love. "The Lord shall have no joy in their young men." etc. 2. Not those that were the objects of compassion; none shall be spared for pity. He shall not "have mercy on their fatherless and widows." They had corrupted their way like the rest; and if the poverty and helplessness of their state was not an argument with them to keep them from sin, they could not expect it should be an argument with God to protect them from judgments ( M. Henry.) Parallel Verses KJV: Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. |
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