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Isaiah 8:12

The Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 8:12

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Say ye not. The transition from the singular to the plural is noticeable. It implies that Isaiah did not stand alone, but had followers—a "little flock," it may be—but still enough to give him the support of sympathy (comp.

verse 16). A confederacy; rather, treason, or conspiracy (see ; ; ; ; ; , etc.). The command is, not to call a course of conduct treasonable simply because the people generally so call it.

Jeremiah was charged with treason for preaching the hopelessness of offering resistance to Nebuchadnezzar (; ). Those who opposed an Assyrian alliance were probably now taxed with treason.

To all them to whom; rather, everything which. Translate the entire clause thus: Call ye not conspiracy everything which this people shall call conspiracy. Neither fear ye their fear. They feared man ().

Isaiah and his disciples are commanded to fear no one but God.

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