Isaiah 1:10
Hear
the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye
people of Gomorrah.
a.
NLT: Listen to the LORD, you leaders of “Sodom.” Listen to the law of our God,
people of “Gomorrah.”
b.
NIV: Hear
the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our
God, you people of Gomorrah!
c.
YLT: Hear
the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom, Give ear to the law of our God, ye
people of Gomorrah,
d.
Amplified Bible: Hear
[O Jerusalem] the word of the Lord, you rulers or judges of
[another] Sodom! Give ear to the law and the teaching of our
God, you people of [another] Gomorrah!
e.
Septuagint: Hear
the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodoma; attend to the law of God, thou
people of Gomorrha.
f.
Stone Edition Trah/Writings/Prophets: Hear the word of HASHEM. O chiefs of
Sodom; give ear to the teaching of our God, O people of Gomorrah:
1.
“Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom…”
a.
hear [8085 * shama’] [Strong: a primitive root; to hear intelligently (often
with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.):--X
attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent,
consider, be content, declare, X diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let,
make to) hear(-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient,
obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew
(forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth),
witness.]
b.
word [1697 * dabar] [Strong: from 1696; a word; by implication, a matter
(as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause:--act, advice, affair, answer, X
any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate,
+ chronicles, commandment, X commune(-ication), + concern(-ing), + confer,
counsel, + dearth, decree, deed, X disease, due, duty, effect, + eloquent,
errand, (evil favoured-)ness, + glory, + harm, hurt, + iniquity, + judgment,
language, + lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, X ought, X
parts, + pertaining, + please, portion, + power, promise, provision, purpose,
question, rate, reason, report, request, X (as hast) said, sake, saying,
sentence, + sign, + so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, + song, speech, X
spoken, talk, task, + that, X there done, thing (concerning), thought, + thus,
tidings, what(-soever), + wherewith, which, word, work.]
c.
the LORD [3068 * Yhovah] [Strong: from 1961; (the) self-Existent or
Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God:--Jehovah, the Lord.]
d.
ye rulers [7101 * qatsiyn] [Strong: from 7096 in the sense of
determining; a magistrate (as deciding) or other leader:--captain, guide,
prince, ruler.]
e.
Sodom [5467 * Cdom] [Strong: from an unused root meaning to scorch; burnt
(i.e. volcanic or bituminous) district; Sedom, a place near the Dead Sea:--
Sodom.]
1).
Don Costello: In beginning the
discussion on this passage of Scripture I must confess that I personally
believe that this particular passage (Isaiah 1:10-20), is a prophetic utterance
that was originally given to the rulers of Sodom and Gomorrah before the events
of Genesis 14 and the invasion of the Mesopotamian kings and repeated here to
the rulers of Jerusalem. The only evidence I have to believe this is of course
these words are addressed to Sodom and Gomorrah, but also it is consistent with
the mercy of God to send warnings before judgment comes. So before the invasion
of the kings from Mesopotamia the above prophetic message was delivered to warn
the cities of the plain. The most well known and accepted line of thought
regarding this passage is it is to be applied spiritually not literally. There
is abundant Scripture to compliment a spiritual application.
a).
Jeremiah 23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing:
they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of
evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness; they are all of them unto
me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
b).
Isaiah 3:8, 9 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah
is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to
provoke the eyes of his glory.
3:9
The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their
sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded
evil unto themselves.
c).
Revelation 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great
city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was
crucified.
2).
Don Costello: I believe this passage can be applied both spiritually and
literally. Spiritually to illustrate level of sin Jerusalem and Judah had
descended, but lieterally to illustrate that they had become just like them and
to reveal the other sins of the cities of the plain. See notes on Ezekiel
16:49, 50; Jeremiah 23:14; Zephaniah 2:8-10. This is done to reveal to us that
the homosexuality of 21st century America is no different than that
of 20th century B.C. Sodom or of 7th century B.C. Israel
or of 1st century A.D. Corinth.
3).
Albert Barnes Commentary: The incidental mention Sodom in the previous verse
gives occasion for this beautiful transition, and abrupt and spirited address.
Their character and destiny were almost like those of Sodom, and the prophet
therefore openly addresses the rulers as being called to preside over a people
like those in Sodom. There could have been no more severe or cutting reproof of
their wickedness than to address them as resembling the people whom God
overthrew for their enormous crimes.
4).
John Gill Commentary: Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom,.... Not
literally, but mystically, meaning the governors of Judea; they and their
people having sinned in like manner, and as openly, as the rulers of Sodom, and
the inhabitants thereof; see Isaiah 3:9 and so the Targum paraphrases
the words,
2.
“…give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.”
a.
give ear [238 * ‘azan] [Strong: a primitive root; probably to expand; but used
only as a denominative from 241; to broaden out the ear (with the hand),
i.e. (by implication) to listen:--give (perceive by the) ear, hear(-ken).]
b.
unto the law [8451 * torah] [Strong: from 3384; a precept or statute,
especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch:--law.]
c.
of our God [430 * ‘elohiym] [Strong: plural of 433; gods in the ordinary
sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article)
of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates;
and sometimes as a superlative:--angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X
(very) great, judges, X mighty.]
d.
ye people [5971 * ‘am] [Strong: from 6004; a people (as a
congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence
(collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock:--folk, men, nation,
people.]
e.
of Gomorrah [6017 * ‘Amorah] [Strong: from 6014; a (ruined) heap; Amorah,
a place in Palestine:--Gomorrah.]
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