The interpretation timeline

Isa 1:28

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

2 Jewish · 1 Reformed · 1 Lutheran

Isa 1:28 · Douay-Rheims
“And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and they that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed.”
Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500
1105
A.D.
Rashi Jewish
1040–1105
“And destruction shall come upon rebels... For with all these expressions he reproved them above: and they rebelled against Me (verse 2), sinful nation; they forsook the Lord (verse 4). rebels Rebels and sectarians and those who worship idols. and sinners Apostates guilty of other sins.”
1167
A.D.
Ibn Ezra Jewish
1089–1167
פושעים Transgressors. They that rebel against authority. They are worse than חטאים sinners. And the destruction of the transgressors shall be TOGETHER. ALL the fortified towns of Judah shall be captured. And they that forsake the Lord, etc. The ordinary repetition of the same idea.”
704 years pass — nothing from this stretch is hosted yet
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1871
A.D.
1871
“destruction--literally, "breaking into shivers" (Rev 2:27). The prophets hasten forward to the final extinction of the ungodly (Psa 37:20; Rev 19:20; Rev 20:15); of which antecedent judgments are types.”
1875
A.D.
Keil & Delitzsch Lutheran
1861–1875
“"And breaking up of the rebellious and sinners together; and those who forsake Jehovah will perish." The judicial side of the approaching act of redemption is here expressed in a way that all can understand. The exclamatory substantive clause in the first half of the v. is explained by a declaratory verbal clause in the second. The "rebellious" were those who had both inwardly and outwardly broken away from Jehovah; "sinners," those who were living in open sins; and "those who forsake Jehovah," such as had become estranged from God in either of these ways.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.