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Ask a Questionwork for Egypt--nothing which Egypt can do to extricate itself from the difficulty. head or tail--high or low (Isa 19:11-15, and Isa 19:8-10). branch or rush--the lofty palm branch or the humble...
Then Isaiah...sent--A revelation having been made to Isaiah, the prophet announced to the king that his prayer was heard. The prophetic message consisted of three different portions:--First,...
I will...command--The parable is partly dropped and Jehovah, as in Isa 5:7, is implied to be the Owner: for He alone, not an ordinary husbandman (Mt 21:43; Lu 17:22), could give such a "command." ...
(De 30:3). seed--descendants scattered in all lands. Vitringa understands it of the spiritual "seed" of the Church produced by mystical regeneration: for the expression is, "bring," not "bring...
declared--predicted the future (Isa 41:22, 23). saved--the nation, in past times of danger. showed--namely, that I was God. when...no strange god, &c.--to whom the predictions uttered by Me could...
So wonderful shall be God's future interpositions in your behalf, that all past ones shall be forgotten in comparison. Plainly the future restoration of Israel is the event ultimately meant. Thus...
(Isa 2:3; 11:10; 43:6; 49:22; 66:12). kings--(Isa 49:7, 23; 52:15). thy rising--rather, "thy sun-rising," that is, "to the brightness that riseth upon thee."
The deliverance from Babylon is foretold, but there is reference to greater events. The redemption of sinners by Christ, the conversion of the Gentiles, and the recall of the Jews, are described....
Thy children--Israel (Isa 49:20, 21; Isa 43:6). Jerome reads, for "Thy children," "Thy builders"; they that destroyed thee shall hasten to build thee. haste--to rebuild thy desolate capital. shall...
Isaiah imagines himself among the exiles in Babylon and cannot help feeling moved by the calamities which come on it. So for Moab (Isa15:5; 16:11). pain--(Compare Isa 13:8; Eze 30:4, 19; Na 2:10)....
three years--Isaiah's symbolical action did not continue all this time, but at intervals, to keep it before the people's mind during that period [Rosenmuller]. Rather, join "three years" with...
bought--for "sweet cane" (aromatic calamus) was not indigenous to Palestine, but had to be bought from foreign countries (Jer 6:20). It was used among the Hebrews to make the sacred ointment (Ex...
spirit--wisdom, for which Egypt was famed (Isa 31:2; 1Ki 4:30; Ac7:22); answering to "counsel" in the parallel clause. fail--literally, "be poured out," that is, be made void (Jer 19:7). They shall...
not...in secret--(Isa 45:19). Jehovah foretold Cyrus' advent, not with the studied ambiguity of heathen oracles, but plainly. from the time, &c.--From the moment that the purpose began to be...
sprinkle many--Gesenius, for the antithesis to "be astonished," translates, "shall cause...to exult." But the word universally in the Old Testament means either to sprinkle with blood, as the high...
tremble at...word--the same persons as in Isa 66:2, the believing few among the Jews. cast you out for my name's sake--excommunicate, as if too polluted to worship with them (Isa 65:5). So in...
Jerusalem shall be as a captive, humbled to the dust. Her voice shall come from the earth as that of the spirit-charmers or necromancers (Isa 8:19), faint and shrill, as the voice of the dead was...
Summary of Messiah's history, which is set forth more in detail in the fifty-third chapter. "Just as many were astonished (accompanied with aversion, Jer 18:16; 19:8), &c.; his visage, &c.; so...
acceptable year--the year of jubilee on which "liberty was proclaimed to the captives" (Isa 61:1; 2Co 6:2). day of vengeance--The "acceptable time of grace" is a "year"; the time of "vengeance" but...
All--that is, This is the usual practice. in glory--in a grand mausoleum. house--that is, "sepulchre," as in Ec 12:5; "grave" (Isa 14:19). To be excluded from the family sepulcher was a mark of...
said--virtually. Hast thou within thyself? height--imagery from the Assyrian felling of trees in Lebanon (Isa 14:8; 33:9); figuratively for, "I have carried my victorious army through the regions...
not...secret--not like the heathen oracles which gave their responses from dark caverns, with studied obscurity (Isa 48:16). Christ plainly quotes these words, thereby identifying Himself with...
he also is wise--as well as the Egyptian priests, so famed for wisdom (Ac 7:22), but who are "fools" before Him (Isa 19:11). He not only devises, but executes what He devises without "calling back...
Remember--"Be not like the idolaters who consider not in their heart" (Isa 44:19). these--things just said as to the folly of idol-worship. my servant--not like the idolaters, slaves to the stock...
That he--rather, "he who," &c. blesseth, &c.--(Ps 72:17; Jer 4:2). God of truth--very God, as opposed to false gods; Hebrew, Amen: the very name of Messiah (2Co 1:20; Re 3:14), faithful to His...
The words expressing the admiration of the daughters. Historically (Ac 5:24-39). as the morning--As yet she is not come to the fulness of her light (Pr4:18). moon--shining in the night, by light...
I--Isaiah speaking in the person of the Messiah. watchmen upon...walls--image from the watches set upon a city's wall to look out for the approach of a messenger with good tidings (Isa 52:7, 8);...
The third clause answers in parallelism to the first, the fourth to the second. I am the Lord's--(Jer 50:5; 1Co 6:19, 20; 2Co 8:5). call himself by the name of Jacob--The Gentiles (as the result of...
(Compare Pr 2:18, 19; 7:27).