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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...
envy...of Ephraim...Judah--which began as early as the time (Jud 8:1; 12:1, &c.). Joshua had sprung from, and resided among the Ephraimites (Nu 13:9; Jos 19:50); the sanctuary was with them for a...
The effect on the "remnant" (contrasted with the Assyrian remnant, Isa 10:19); namely, those who shall be left after the invasion of Sennacherib, will be a return from dependence on external...
signs--of God's presence, as altar, ark, &c. (compare Ps 74:4; 2Ch36:18, 19; Da 5:2). no more any prophet--(Isa 3:2; Jer 40:1; 43:6). how long--this is to last. Jeremiah's prophecy (Jer 25:11), if...
blotted out--the debt of thy sin from the account-book in which it was entered (Ex 32:32, 33; Re 20:12). as a thick cloud--scattered away by the wind (Ps 103:12). as a cloud--a descending...
Is not...as--Was there any one of these cities able to withstand me? Not one. So Rab-shakeh vaunts (Isa 36:19). Calno--Calneh, built by Nimrod (Ge 10:10), once his capital, on the Tigris. ...
the sea--the Nile. Physical calamities, it is observed in history, often accompany political convulsions (Eze 30:12). The Nile shall "fail" to rise to its wonted height, the result of which will be...
razor--The Assyrians are to be God's instrument of devastating Judea, just as a razor sweeps away all hair before it (Isa 10:5; Eze29:19, 20). hired--alluding to Ahaz' hiring (2Ki 16:7, 8)...
Isaiah is outside, near the altar in front of the temple. The doors are supposed to open, and the veil hiding the Holy of Holies to be withdrawn, unfolding to his view a vision of God represented...
a city...heap--Babylon, type of the seat of Antichrist, to be destroyed in the last days (compare Jer 51:37, with Re 18:1-24, followed, as here, by the song of the saints' thanksgiving in...
Tirhakah--(See on Isa 17:12; Isa 18:6). Egypt was in part governed by three successive Ethiopian monarchs, for forty or fifty years: Sabacho, Sevechus, and Tirhakah. Sevechus retired from Lower...
feed...own flesh--a phrase for internal strifes (Isa 9:20). own blood--a just retribution for their having shed the blood of God's servants (Re 16:6). sweet wine--that is, must, or new wine, the...