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Ask a QuestionZion--the literal Israel's complaint, as if God had forsaken her in the Babylonian captivity; also in their dispersion previous to their future restoration; thereby God's mercy shall be called...
is upon me; because...hath anointed me--quoted by Jesus as His credentials in preaching (Lu 4:18-21). The Spirit is upon Me in preaching, because Jehovah hath anointed Me from the womb (Lu 1:35),...
The anarchy resulting under such imbecile rulers (Isa 3:4); unjust exactions mutually; the forms of respect violated (Le 19:32). base--low-born. Compare the marks of "the last days" (2Ti 3:2).
fishers--The Nile was famed for fish (Nu 11:5); many would be thrown out of employment by the failure of fishes. angle--a hook. Used in the "brooks" or canals, as the "net" was in "the waters" of...
Whereas thou hast prayed to me--that is, hast not relied on thy own strength but on Me (compare 2Ki 19:20). "That which thou hast prayed to Me against Sennacherib, I have heard" (Ps 65:2).
(Isa 40:19, 20; 41:7.) They lavish gold out of their purses and spare no expense for their idol. Their profuseness shames the niggardliness of professors who worship God with what cost them...
Ye--the enemy. conceive chaff--(Isa 26:18; 59:4). your breath--rather, your own spirit of anger and ambition [Maurer], (Isa 30:28).
peace--whether in relation to God, to their own conscience, or to their fellow men (Isa 57:20, 21). judgment--justice. crooked--the opposite of "straightforward" (Pr 2:15; 28:18).
cast...lot--As conquerors apportion lands by lot, so Jehovah has appointed and marked out ("divided") Edom for the wild beasts (Nu26:55, 56; Jos 18:4-6).
lofty looks--literally, "eyes of pride" (Ps 18:27). humbled--by calamities. God will so vindicate His honor "in that day" of judgments, that none else "shall be exalted" (Zec 14:9).
And the Lord spake by his servants the prophets--These were Hosea, Joel, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Isaiah. Their counsels, admonitions, and prophetic warnings, were put on record in the national...
returning and rest--turning back from your embassy to Egypt, and ceasing from warlike preparations. quietness--answering to "wait for Him (God)" (Isa 30:18).
leap--literally, "fulfilled" (Ac 3:8; 14:10). sing--joyful thanksgiving. in...wilderness...waters--(Isa 41:18).
(Isa 45:8, 55:10, 11; Ps 72:3; 85:11). bud--the tender shoots. praise--(Isa 60:18; 62:7).
hungry--not literally. Image from unappeasable hunger, to picture internal factions, reckless of the most tender ties (Isa 9:19), and insatiably spreading misery and death on every side (Jer 19:9)....
work 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,...
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)....
new--unprecedented in its wonderful character (Isa 42:9). spring forth--as a germinating herb: a beautiful image of the silent but certain gradual growth of events in God's providence (Mr 4:26-28)....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...