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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...
Just as Miriam, after the deliverance of the Red Sea (Isa 11:16), celebrated it with an ode of praise (Ex 15:1-19).
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...
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...
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...
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).
(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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...