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- Isaiah
- Chapter 65
- Verse 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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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…
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…
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.
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,…
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…
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