Isaiah 32:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

Isaiah 32:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 5:26-28
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. …
Matthew 26:14-16
Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, …
Isaiah 5:23
Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
Psalms 64:4-6
That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not. …
Acts 6:11-13
Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Alms Beggars Cheating Church Congregation Deceit Deception

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-8)

We have here the description of a flourishing kingdom. “ Blessed art thou, O land! when it is thus with thee, when kings, princes, and people, are in their places such as they should be.” It may be taken as a directory both to magistrates and subjects, what both ought to do, or as a panegyric to Hezekiah, who ruled well and saw something of the happy effects of his good government, and it was desi…

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

(vv. 7)

7. churl--“the fraudulent”; this verse refers to the last clause of Is 32:5; as Is 32:6 referred to its first clause. speaketh right--pleadeth a just cause (Is 29:21); spiritually, “the poor man’s cause” is the divine doctrine, his rule of faith and practice.