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Ask a Questionmy servant--God often makes one wicked man or nation a scourge to another (Eze 29:18, 19, 20). royal pavilion--the rich tapestry (literally, "ornament") which hung round the throne from above.
The sacrifices here are not mere commemorative, but propitiatory ones. The expressions, "blood" (Eze 43:18), and "for a sin offering" (Eze 43:19, 21, 22), prove this. In the literal sense they can...
It had taken part with the Chaldeans against Judea (2Ki 24:2). Fulfilled by Nebuchadnezzar five years after the destruction of Jerusalem, when also he attacked Egypt (Jer 43:8-13) and Ammon...
small cattle--rather, the "lamb" or "kid," required by the law to be daily offered to God (Ex 29:38; Nu 28:3). sacrifices--offered any way; whereas the Hebrew for "holocaust," or "burnt offering,"...
wolf...lamb--Each animal is coupled with that one which is its natural prey. A fit state of things under the "Prince of Peace" (Isa65:25; Eze 34:25; Ho 2:18). These may be figures for men of...
sworn by myself--equivalent to, "As I live," as Ro 14:11 quotes it. So Nu 14:21. God could swear by no greater, therefore He swears by Himself (Heb 6:13, 16). word...in righteousness--rather, "the...
Zion (Isa 61:3) gives thanks for God's returning favor (compare Lu1:46, 47; Hab 3:18). salvation...righteousness--inseparably connected together. The "robe" is a loose mantle thrown over the other...
In contrast to the godly (Isa 50:10), the wicked, in times of darkness, instead of trusting in God, trust in themselves (kindle a light for themselves to walk by) (Ec 11:9). The image is continued...
mouth--literally, "palate." (See on Job 6:30). wishing--literally, "so as to demand his (my enemy's) soul," that is, "life by a curse." This verse parenthetically confirms Job 31:30. Job in the...
Just as Miriam, after the deliverance of the Red Sea (Isa 11:16), celebrated it with an ode of praise (Ex 15:1-19).
Sodom--spiritually (Ge 19:24; Jer 23:14; Eze 16:46; Re 11:8).
let them know--that is, How is it that, with all their boast of knowing the future [Diodorus, 1.81], they do not know what Jehovah of hosts ...
cast out--unburied (Isa 14:19). melted--washed away as with a descending torrent.
It--The burning pitch, &c. (Isa 34:9). smoke...for ever--(Re 14:11; 18:18; 19:3). generation to generation--(Mal 1:4). none...pass through--Edom's original offense was: they would not let Israel...
He trusted in the Lord God of Israel--without invoking the aid or purchasing the succor of foreign auxiliaries like Asa (1Ki 15:18, 19) and Ahaz (2Ki 16:17; Isa 7:1-25). so that after him was none...
Image for mighty revolutions (Isa 24:19; 34:4; Hab 3:6, 10; Hag2:6, 7; Re 20:11).
He tries to influence Hezekiah himself, as Rab-shakeh had addressed the people. God...deceive--(Compare Nu 23:19).
This and the thirty-seventh through thirty-ninth chapters form the historical appendix closing the first division of Isaiah's prophecies, and were added to make the parts of these referring to...
it--the arm. Art not Thou the same Almighty power that...? dried the sea--the Red Sea (Isa 43:16; Ex 14:21).
(Isa 53:12; Ps 68:18; Col 2:15). contend with him, &c.--(Isa 54:17).
have laid waste--conceding the truth of the Assyrian's allegation (Isa 36:18-20), but adding the reason, "For they were no gods."
work--the effect (Pr 14:34; Jas 3:18). peace--internal and external.
(See on Isa 50:9; Job 4:18-20). Not that the moth eats men up, but they shall be destroyed by as insignificant instrumentality as the moth that eats a garment.
appointed--the sabbath, passover, pentecost, day of atonement, and feast of tabernacles [Hengstenberg]; they alone were fixed to certain times of the year. weary--(Isa 43:24).
faint...melt--So Jer 50:43; compare Jos 7:5. Babylon was taken by surprise on the night of Belshazzar's impious feast (Da 5:30). Hence the sudden fainting and melting of hearts.
the power--the might of the enemies host, every mighty warrior. they shall lie down together--as Pharaoh's army sank "together" in a watery grave.
Give up--namely, My people. sons...daughters--The feminine joined to the masculine expresses the complete totality of anything (Zec 9:17).
before--literally, from the time of the first existence of day. let--Old English for "hinder" (Isa 14:27). Rather, translate, "undo it" [Horsley].
Lord--Jehovah. saviour--temporally, from Babylon: eternally, from sin and hell (Ho13:4; Ac 4:12). The same titles as are applied to God are applied to Jesus.