Isaiah 9:10
“The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
The bricks are fallen down,.... Houses made of bricks, which were without the cities besieged and destroyed by the…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
The bricks are fallen down - The language of this verse is figurative; but the sentiment is plain. It contains the…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Isaiah 9:8-21
Here are terrible threatenings, which are directed primarily against Israel, the kingdom of the ten tribes, Ephraim and…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
It has been conjectured that these words are a fragment of a drinking song actually sung in Ephraim. They express the…