Isaiah 1:10
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
Webster's Revision
Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
World English Bible
Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
English Revised Version (ERV)
Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Definitions for Isaiah 1:10
Clarke's Isaiah 1:10 Bible Commentary
Ye rulers of Sodom "Ye princes of Sodom" - The incidental mention of Sodom and Gomorrah in the preceding verse suggested to the prophet this spirited address to the rulers and inhabitants of Jerusalem, under the character of princes of Sodom and people of Gomorrah. Two examples of a sort of elegant turn of the like kind may be observed in St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Romans 15:4, Romans 15:5, Romans 15:12, Romans 15:13. See Locke on the place; and see Isaiah 1:29, Isaiah 1:30, of this chapter, which gives another example of the same.
And - like unto Gomorrah. - The ו vau is added by thirty-one of Kennicott's MSS., twenty-nine of De Rossi's and one, very ancient, of my own. See note on Isaiah 1:6 (note).
Barnes's Isaiah 1:10 Bible Commentary
Hear the word of the Lord - The message of God. Having stated the calamities under which the nation was groaning, the prophet proceeds to address the rulers, and to state the cause of all these woes.
Ye rulers of Sodom - 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.
Wesley's Isaiah 1:10 Bible Commentary
1:10 Of Sodom - So called for their resemblance of them in wickedness.The law - The message which I am now to deliver to you from God, your great lawgiver.