Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
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Gill's Exposition
Against whom do ye sport yourselves?.... Is it against the ministers of the Gospel, the prophets of the Lord, the true and faithful witnesses, over whose dead bodies you triumph? know that it is not…
Barnes' Notes
Against whom do ye sport yourselves? - The word here rendered ‘sport’ (ענג ‛ānag) means properly “to live delicately and tenderly”; then “to rejoice, to take pleasure or delight.” Here, however, it…
We have here a high charge, but a just one no doubt, drawn up against that wicked generation out of which God's righteous ones were removed, because the world was not worthy of them. Observe,
I. The…
Cambridge Bible
On the contemptuous attitude of the Samaritans towards the Jews, see Neh 4:1-4, and comp. ch. Isa 66:5.
sport yourselves Lit. "take your delight" (ch. Isa 55:2; Isa 58:14; Isa 66:11); only here used…
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