Isaiah 57:3

3 "But you, you witches' children, come here, you spawn of adulterers and whores!

Isaiah 57:3 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 57:3

But draw near hither
The death of the righteous, and their happiness after it, being observed: the wicked, who thought themselves safe from danger, and the happier that they were rid of the righteous, those witnesses and prophets which had tormented them, and therefore rejoiced on that account, are here summoned to the divine tribunal, to hear their character, and receive their doom, as follows: ye sons of the sorceress;
the children of Jezebel, the witch, and the prophetess that taught the servants of the Lord to commit fornication, and bewitched with her witchcrafts the sons of the apostate church of Rome; by whose sorceries all nations have been deceived, and of which she repents not, ( Revelation 2:20 ) ( 9:21 ) ( 18:23 ) : the seed of the adulterer and of the whore;
of the great whore of Babylon, with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication; and whose subjects and children are the seed of this whore, and the sons of this idolatrous church: or, "that committeth whoredom" ^F7; which aggravates the character, that they were not only the children of adulterous persons, but committed whoredom themselves.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 (hnztw) "qua scortata est", Piscator; "quod scortaris", Junius & Tremellius; "qui scortaris", Cocceius.

Isaiah 57:3 In-Context

1 The righteous person perishes, and nobody gives it a thought. Godly men are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous person is taken away from the evil yet to come.

2 Yes, those who live uprightly will have peace as they rest on their couches.

3 "But you, you witches' children, come here, you spawn of adulterers and whores!

4 Whom are you making fun of? At whom are you laughing and sticking out your tongue? Aren't you rebellious children, just a brood of liars?

5 You go into heat among the oak trees, under every spreading tree. You kill the children in the valleys under the cracks in the rocks.