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Isaiah 29:21

King James Version (KJV)

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Isaiah 29:21

Verse 21 of 24

Scripture focus

That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

Isaiah 29:21 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Isaiah 29:21

Theological / Devotional

Make a man an offender. Perhaps Isaiah had been accused of a lack of patriotism because of his messages of reproof and warning. Those who are reproved turn against their reprovers and endeavor to devise means, however unfair, of entrapping these representatives of God in order to bring about their downfall and silence their voice of reproof.

Turn aside the just. That is, plan a deliberate miscarriage of justice (see Ex. 23:6; Amos 5:12; Mal. 3:5).

A thing of nought. Heb. tohu, translated “without form” in Gen. 1:2. The accusations brought to make the reprover appear as an offender were utterly without basis in fact.

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