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Ask a Questionthey--the Philistine allies of Egypt who trusted in it for help against Assyria. A warning to the party among the Jews, who, though Judah was then the subordinate ally of Assyria, were looking to...
Image from the heavenly bodies to express the increase of spiritual light and felicity. "Sevenfold" implies the perfection of that felicity, seven being the sacred number. It shall also be...
Solemn challenge given by God to the nations to argue with Him the question of His superiority to their idols, and His power to deliver Israel (Isa 41:1). blind people--the Gentiles, who also, like...
(Isa 41:10, 14). shame of thy youth--Israel's unfaithfulness as wife of Jehovah, almost from her earliest history. reproach of widowhood--Israel's punishment in her consequent dismissal from God...
house--the temple. beautiful--includes the idea of glorious (Mr 13:1; Ac 3:2). burned--(Ps 74:7; La 2:7; 2Ch 36:19). Its destruction under Nebuchadnezzar prefigured that under Titus. pleasant...
judge--see that impartial justice is done them. "Judge" may mean here "rule," as in Ps 67:4. reprove--or, "argue"; "decide." But Lowth, "work conviction in." earth--Compare with Mt 5:5, and Re...
err in every work thereof--referring to the anarchy arising from their internal feuds. Horsley translates, "with respect to all His (God's) work"; they misinterpreted God's dealings at every step....
boughs...broken off--so the Jews are called (Ro 11:17, 19, 20). set...on fire--burn them as fuel; "women" are specified, as probably it was their office to collect fuel and kindle the fire for...
(Hab 1:5; Ac 13:41). The "marvellous work" is one of unparalleled vengeance on the hypocrites: compare "strange work," Isa 28:21. The judgment, too, will visit the wise in that respect in which...
tumult--insolence. hook in...nose--Like a wild beast led by a ring through the nose, he shall be forced back to his own country (compare Job 41:1, 2; Eze 19:4;29:4; 38:4). In a bas-relief of...
deaf--namely, to the voice of God. blind--to your duty and interest; wilfully so (Isa 42:20). In this they differ from "the blind" (Isa 42:16). The Jews are referred to. He had said, God would...
righteousness--the characteristic of the reign of Messiah (Isa11:4, 5; Ps 72:2, 4; Re 19:11). far from oppression, &c.--far from suffering oppression; "for thou shall have nothing to fear."
Jehovah will not only restore the scattered outcasts of Israel (Isa 11:12; Ps 147:2) to their own land, but "will gather others ('strangers') to him (Israel), besides those gathered" (Margin, "to...
Jehovah will inspire their magistrates with justice, and their soldiers with strength of spirit. turn...battle to...gate--the defenders of their country who not only repel the foe from themselves,...
I will defend--Notwithstanding Hezekiah's measures of defense (2Ch32:3-5), Jehovah was its true defender. mine own sake--since Jehovah's name was blasphemed by Sennacherib (Isa37:23). David's sake...
not meet...as a man--rather, "I will not meet a man," that is, suffer man to intercede with me--give man an audience [Horsley]. Or, "I will not make peace with any man," before all are destroyed....
nest--implying the ease with which he carried off all before him. left--by the parent bird. none...moved...wing--image from an angry bird resisting the robbery of its "nest." peeped--chirped even...
Address of the returning people to the gates of Jerusalem (type of the heavenly city, Heb 12:22); (Ps 24:7, 9; 118:19). Antitypically (Re22:14; 21:25, 27). righteous nation--that had not...
part...part--not distinct parts, but the same part of the wood (compare Isa 44:17). eateth--that is, cooks so as to eat (Isa 44:19). I have seen--I feel its power.
(Isa 45:21; 41:22, 23; 44:26). yet--not in the Hebrew. Translate, "What had not been done" [Horsley]. do all my pleasure--(Isa 53:10; Ro 9:19).
As the degeneracy had shown itself most in the magistrates (Isa 1:17-23), so, at the "restoration," these shall be such as the theocracy "at the first" had contemplated, namely, after the...
They--namely, "Jehovah," and the armies which are "the weapons of His indignation." far country--Media and Persia, stretching to the far north and east. end of heaven--the far east (Ps 19:6). ...
Whom--rather, "Which," namely, "the land," or "earth," that is, the people of it [Maurer]. my people--the peculiar designation of Israel, the elect people, here applied to Egypt to express its...
(Jer 3:17). Still future: of which Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem amidst hosannas was a pledge. his ancients--the elders of His people; or in general, His ancient people, the Jews. After the...
impoverished--literally, "sunk" in circumstances. no oblation--he who cannot afford to overlay his idol with gold and silver (Isa 40:19). tree...not rot--the cedar, cypress, oak, or ash (Isa...
Sit--the posture of mourning (Ezr 9:4; Job 2:13; La 2:10). darkness--mourning and misery (La 3:2; Mic 7:8). lady of kingdoms--mistress of the world (Isa 13:19).
head of all...streets--(La 2:19; 4:1). wild bull--rather, "oryx" [Jerome], or gazelle [Gesenius], or wild goat [Bochart]; commonly in the East taken in a net, of a wide sweep, into which the beasts...
For--referring to Isa 55:7. You need not doubt His willingness "abundantly to pardon" (compare Isa 55:12); for, though "the wicked" man's "ways," and "the unrighteous man's thoughts," are so...
forgotten...God of...salvation...rock--(De 32:15, 18). plants--rather, "nursery grounds," "pleasure-grounds" [Maurer]. set in--rather, "set them," the pleasure-grounds. strange slips--cuttings of...
other lords--temporal; heathen kings (2Ch 12:8; 28:5, 6), Nebuchadnezzar, &c. Spiritual also, idols and lusts (Ro 6:16-18). by thee only--It is due to Thee alone, that we again worship Thee as our...