Isaiah 45:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?

Isaiah 45:10 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 27:16
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Malachi 1:6
A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
Hebrews 12:9
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Topics

Impenitence Infidelity Materialism Presumption

Commentary

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

(vv. 5-10)

God here asserts his sole and sovereign dominion, as that which he designed to prove and manifest to the world in all the great things he did for Cyrus and by him. Observe, I. How this doctrine is here laid down concerning the sovereignty of the great Jehovah, in two things:—1. That he is God alone, and there is no God besides him. This is here inculcated as a fundamental truth, which, if it were…

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

(vv. 10)

10. If it be wrong for a child, born in less favorable circumstances, to upbraid his parents with having given him birth, a fortiori, it is, to upbraid God for His dealings with us. Rather translate, “a father ... a woman.” The Jews considered themselves exclusively God’s children and were angry that God should adopt the Gentiles besides. Woe to him who says to one already a father, Why dost thou…