Jesaja 1:10

10 Hoort des HEEREN woord, gij oversten van Sodom! neemt ter ore de wet onzes Gods, gij volk van Gomorra!

Jesaja 1:10 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 1:10

Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom
Not literally, but mystically, meaning the governors of Judea; they and their people having sinned in like manner, and as openly, as the rulers of Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof; see ( Isaiah 3:9 ) and so the Targum paraphrases the words,

``receive the word of the Lord, ye governors, whose works are evil like the governors of Sodom.''

These are called to attend to the word of the Lord; either the Scriptures, which should be the rule of faith and practice, from which they had swerved; or to the word which now came to them by the prophet, and is contained in the following verses; or rather to the Gospel preached to them by John the Baptist, Christ, and his apostles, see ( Isaiah 2:3 ) which being rejected by them as it was, it is declared that it would be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, in the day of judgment, than for them, ( Matthew 11:24 ) give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah;
the inhabitants of Judea; for as were both the civil and ecclesiastical rulers, so were the people both in Isaiah's time, and in the times of Christ and his apostles. The Targum is,

``hearken to the law of our God, ye people whose works are like to the people of Gomorrah.''

And by "the law of our God" is meant, not so much the law of Moses, which these people had not hearkened to, but had broken it, and cast it away from them, as the doctrine of the grace of God, the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is our God; which was first sent and preached to this wicked people, for the sake of the small remnant, according to the election of grace left among them; see ( Isaiah 2:3 ) .

Jesaja 1:10 In-Context

8 En de dochter van Sion is overgebleven als een hutje in den wijngaard, als een nachthutje in den komkommerhof als een belegerde stad.

9 Zo niet de HEERE der heirscharen ons nog een weinig overblijfsel had gelaten, als Sodom zouden wij geworden zijn; wij zouden Gomorra gelijk zijn geworden.

10 Hoort des HEEREN woord, gij oversten van Sodom! neemt ter ore de wet onzes Gods, gij volk van Gomorra!

11 Waartoe zal Mij zijn de veelheid uwer slachtoffers? zegt de HEERE; Ik ben zat van de brandoffers der rammen, en het smeer der vette beesten, en heb geen lust aan het bloed der varren, noch der lammeren, noch der bokken.

12 Wanneer gijlieden voor Mijn aangezicht komt te verschijnen, wie heeft zulks van uw hand geeist, dat gij Mijn voorhoven betreden zoudt?