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Ask a Questionmouth--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.
Allusion to the deliverance of Israel and overthrow of Pharaoh in the Red Sea, the standing illustration of God's unchanging character towards His people (Ex 14:21, 22, 27, 28).
But--Israel, however, is not to think that these divine favors are due to their own piety towards God. So the believer (Tit 3:5). but--rather, "for." weary of me--(Am 8:5, 6; Mal 1:13), though "I...
From the vision of future glory Isaiah returns to the disastrous present; the grief of "the valiant ones" (parallel to, and identical with, "the ambassadors of peace"), men of rank, sent with...
Rather, "His grave was appointed," or "they appointed Him His grave" [Hengstenberg]; that is, they intended (by crucifying Him with two thieves, Mt 27:38) that He should have His grave "with the...
rod--When the proud "boughs" of "Lebanon" (Isa 10:33, 34, the Assyrians) are lopped, and the vast "forests cut down" amidst all this rage, a seemingly humble rod shall come out of Jesse (Messiah),...
Isaiah announces the overthrow of Sennacherib's hosts and desires the Ethiopian ambassadors, now in Jerusalem, to bring word of it to their own nation; and he calls on the whole world to witness...
Tarshish--Tartessus in southwest Spain, at the mouth of the Guadalquivir, near Gibraltar. It includes the adjoining region: a Phoenician colony; hence its connection with Palestine and the Bible...
Zoan--The Greeks called it Tanis, a city of Lower Egypt, east of the Tanitic arms of the Nile, now San; it was one the Egyptian towns nearest to Palestine (Nu 13:22), the scene of Moses' miracles...
great waters--the wide waters of the sea. seed--"grain," or crop, as in 1Sa 8:15; Job 39:12. Sihor--literally, "dark-colored"; applied to the Nile, as the Egyptian Jeor, and the Greek Melas, to...