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Isaiah 65:15

Isaiah 65:15
And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen,.... Execrable and abominable to them, as the name of a Jew is to this day, and in all places; for their unbelief and impenitence, for their…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen - To my people; to those whom I have selected to be my friends. The word rendered here ‘curse’ (שׁבועה shebû‛âh) means properly “an oath,” or…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Shall slay thee "Shall slay you" - For והמיתך vehemithecha, shall slay thee, the Septuagint and Chaldee read והמיתכם vehemithechem, shall slay you, plural.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Isaiah 65:11-16

Here the different states of the godly and wicked, of the Jews that believed and of those that still persisted in unbelief, are set the one over - against the other, as life and death, good and evil,…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Their names shall be used in a formula of imprecation. Comp. in illustration Jer 29:22: "And from them shall be taken a curse for all the captivity of Judah … saying, -Jehovah make thee like Zedekiah…