Isaiah 47:3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet you as a man. : — The sense is very obscure. (Skinner.)I will run against no man, namely, that I should need to give way to him. (Stier.)I will not intervene as a man. (Ruetschi.)I shall not meet a man, so depopulated will Babylon be. (Hahn.)I shall encounter no one who can resist Me. (Cheyne.)It means to encounter, meet, hit upon one, not only in a hostile, but also, as here and Isaiah 64:5, in a friendly sense; so I will befriend no one, pardon no one. (Delitzsch.)Vengeance I take, and strike treaty with none. (G. A. Smith.)Possibly, "I will take vengeance, and will not spare, saith our Redeemer." (A. B. Davidson, D. D.)Independently of these minuter questions, it is clear that the whole clause is a laconic explanation of the figures which precede, and which are summed up in the simple, but terrific notion of resistless and inexorable vengeance. (J. A. Alexander.) Parallel Verses KJV: Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man. |
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