Isaiah 3:9Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it: woe to their souls, for evils are rendered to them.
הַכָּרַ֤ת פְּנֵיהֶם֙ עָ֣נְתָה בָּ֔ם וְחַטָּאתָ֛ם כִּסְדֹ֥ם הִגִּ֖ידוּ לֹ֣א כִחֵ֑דוּ א֣וֹי לְנַפְשָׁ֔ם כִּֽי־גָמְל֥וּ לָהֶ֖ם רָעָֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Gen 13:13And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the face of the Lord beyond measure.
- Jer 6:15They were confounded, because they committed abomination: yea, rather they were not confounded with confusion, and they knew not how to blush: wherefore they shall fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall fall down, saith the Lord.
- Gen 18:20And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous.
- Gen 18:21I will go down and see whether they have done according to the cry that is come to me; or whether it be not so, that I may know.
- Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Ezek 23:16She doted upon them with the lust of her eyes, and she sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
- Jer 44:16As for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken to thee:
- Jer 44:17But we will certainly do every word that shall proceed out of our own mouth, to sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, our kings, and our princes in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and we were filled with bread, and it was well with us, and we saw no evil.