Isaías 32:7

7 En cuanto al tramposo, sus armas son malignas; trama designios perversos para destruir con calumnias a los afligidos, aun cuando el necesitado hable lo que es justo.

Isaías 32:7 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 32:7

The instruments also of the churl [are] evil
Not his [vessels] or measures he sells by, which are small and deficient, as Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret it; nor his servants, his tools in doing his wickedness, which are fit for his purpose, wicked men; but rather these are much the same with "the instruments of the foolish shepherd", ( Zechariah 11:15 ) and may signify the evil ways and methods which covetous pastors or shepherds take to fleece the flock, and to increase their own gain:

he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words,
even when the needy speaketh right;
he consults, contrives, and forms schemes with all craft and cunning, on purpose, to corrupt, as the word ^F8 signifies, the poor and meek, humble and afflicted souls, with false doctrines; even when these poor and needy ones, who want to have sound and comfortable doctrine delivered to them, speak and ask for that which is right and just, agreeably to the oracles of God, and the analogy of faith, but can not have it; wherefore such a man is unfit to be a ruler in the house of God.

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 (rqv yrmab Mywne lbxl) "ad corrumpendum afflictos in eloquiis falsitaits", Montanus.

Isaías 32:7 In-Context

5 Ya no se llamará noble al necio, ni al tramposo se le dirá generoso.

6 Pues el necio habla necedades, y su corazón se inclina hacia el mal, para practicar la impiedad y hablar falsedad contra el SEÑOR, para mantener con hambre al hambriento y para privar de bebida al sediento.

7 En cuanto al tramposo, sus armas son malignas; trama designios perversos para destruir con calumnias a los afligidos, aun cuando el necesitado hable lo que es justo.

8 Pero el noble concibe cosas nobles, y en las cosas nobles se afirma.

9 Levantaos, mujeres indolentes, y oíd mi voz; hijas confiadas, prestad oído a mi palabra.