Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
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Gill's Exposition
Give ye ear, and hear my voice,.... So said the prophet, as the Targum introduces the words; and because what he was about to say was of importance, and delivered in a parabolical manner, and required…
Barnes' Notes
Now therefore - In view of the certain judgment which God will bring upon you. Be ye not mockers - This was the prevailing sin Isa 28:9-14, and on account of this sin in part the judgment of God was…
The prophet, having reproved those that made a jest of the word of God, here goes on to reprove those that made a jest of the judgments of God, and set them at defiance; for he is a jealous God, and…
Cambridge Bible
A final appeal to the "scoffers" (Isa 28:28), based on the irreversible decision of Jehovah.
be ye not mockers do not play the scoffer.
lest your bands be made strong i.e. "lest ye be firmly bound and…
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