Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 9:17

17 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men , neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows : for every one is an Hypocrite , and an evil doer , and every mouth speaketh folly : for all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Shall not rejoyce over them to do them good, as he doth to his People, Isa. 62. 5. Zeph. 3. 17. will not have mercy or pity on them, as the next Clause explains it, but will abhor and utterly destroy them; for more is here intended than is expressed, as Prov. 17. 21.

Who are the special Objects of his Care and Pity, Deut. 16. 11, 14. & 24. 19, 20. and much less upon others.

Not precisely; for there were Seven thousand Elect Persons among them, when they seemed to Elijah to be universally corrupt, 1 Kings 19. 18. but the Body or generality of the People.

For though they professed to worship and serve the true God, yet indeed they had forsaken him. Or, a prophane person, as this Word is rendred Ier. 23. 15. as also Isa. 32. 6.

Elsewhere called, a worker of iniquity, as Iob 31. 3. Psal. 5. 5. Mat. 7. 23. one that gives up himself to a constant course and custom of sinning.

i. e. Wickedness, which is commonly called folly. They are not ashamed to proclaim their own Wickedness, and the Corruption of their Hearts breaketh forth into ungodly Speeches.

Marginal references: Or, villany.