Isaiah 29:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

Isaiah 29:21 —

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Cross-References

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Amos 5:10-12
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. …
James 5:6
Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
Acts 3:14
But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
Amos 7:10-17
Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words. …
Matthew 26:15
And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

Topics

Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Anger Bigotry Censoriousness Charitableness Church Citizens

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-24)

Those that thought to hide their counsels from the Lord were said to turn things upside down (Isa. 29:16), and they intended to do it unknown to God; but God here tells them that he will turn things upside down his way; and let us see whose word shall stand, his or theirs. They disbelieve Providence: “Wait awhile,” says God, “and you shall be convinced by ocular demonstration that there is a God w…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. Rather, “Who make a man guilty in his cause” [Gesenius], that is, unjustly condemn him. “A man” is in the Hebrew a poor man, upon whom such unjust condemnations might be practiced with more impunity than on the rich; compare Is 29:19, “the meek ... the poor.” him that reproveth--rather, “pleadeth”; one who has a suit at issue. gate--the place of concourse in a city, where courts of justice wer…