Isaiah 3:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

Isaiah 3:8 —

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1 Corinthians 10:22
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
Ezekiel 9:9
Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
Hosea 7:16
They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
Malachi 3:13-15
Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? …
2 Chronicles 28:5-7
Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter. …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 1-8)

The prophet, in the close of the foregoing chapter, had given a necessary caution to all not to put confidence in man, or any creature; he had also given a general reason for that caution, taken from the frailty of human life and the vanity and weakness of human powers. Here he gives a particular reason for it—God was now about to ruin all their creature-confidences, so that they should meet with…

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

(vv. 8)

8. Reason given by the prophet, why all shrink from the government. eyes of his glory--to provoke His “glorious” Majesty before His “eyes” (compare Is 49:5; Ha 1:13). The Syriac and Lowth, by a slight change of the Hebrew, translate, “the cloud of His glory,” the Shekinah.