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Zion long in bondage (Isa 51:17-20) is called to put on beautiful garments appropriate to its future prosperity.
stand--shall wait on you as servants (Isa 14:1, 2; 60:10).
The same words as in Isa 59:16, except that there it is His "righteousness," here it is His "fury," which is said to have upheld Him.
Oh, that Thy wrath would consume Thy foes as the fire. Rather, "as the fire burneth the dry brushwood" [Gesenius].
stirreth--rouseth himself from spiritual drowsiness. take hold--(Isa 27:5).
(Ps 74:1, 2). we are...thy people--(Jer 14:9, 21).
Look...from me--Deep grief seeks to be alone; while others feast joyously, Isaiah mourns in prospect of the disaster coming on Jerusalem (Mic 1:8, 9). daughter, &c.--(see on Isa 1:8; La 2:11).
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...
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...
For--rather, "Truly." This is Isaiah's reply to the scoffers: Your drunken questions shall be answered by the severe lessons from God conveyed through the Assyrians and Babylonians; the dialect of...
Many days and years--rather, "In little more than a year" [Maurer]; literally, "days upon a year" (so Isa 29:1). vintage shall fail--through the arrival of the Assyrian invader. As the wheat...
pride--(Isa 16:6, 7). Moab was the trumpeter of his own fame. Jeremiah adds "loftiness and arrogancy" to Isaiah's picture, so that Moab had not only not been bettered by the chastisement previously...
(Da 4:35). To comfort the Jews, lest they should fear that people; not in order to call the Philistines to repentance, since the prophecy was probably never circulated among them. They had been...
since that time--rather, "respecting that time" [Horsley]. Barnes translates it, "formerly" in contrast to "but now" (Isa 16:14): heretofore former prophecies (Ex 15:15; Nu 21:29) have been given...
In 2Ki 20:8, after this verse comes the statement which is put at the end, in order not to interrupt God's message (Isa 38:21, 22) by Isaiah (Isa 38:5-8). will deliver--The city was already...
mean--in rank: not morally base: opposed to "the great man." The former is in Hebrew, Adam, the latter, ish. boweth--namely, to idols. All ranks were idolaters. forgive...not--a threat expressed by...
(Re 4:8). The Trinity is implied (on "Lord," see on Isa 6:1). God's holiness is the keynote of Isaiah's whole prophecies. whole earth--the Hebrew more emphatically, the fulness of the whole earth...
seek deep to hide--rather, "That seek to hide deeply," &c. (compare Isa 30:1, 2). The reference is to the secret plan which many of the Jewish nobles had of seeking Egyptian aid against Assyria,...
hear--take cognizance of (2Sa 16:12). reprove--will punish him for the words, &c. (Ps 50:21). remnant--the two tribes of the kingdom of Judah, Israel being already captive. Isaiah is entreated to...
Who--Their calamity was not the work of chance, but God's immediate act for their sins. Jacob...Israel...we--change from the third to the first person; Isaiah first speaking to them as a prophet,...
Messiah announces His twofold commission to bring gospel mercy at His first coming, and judgments on unbelievers and comfort to Zion at His second coming (Isa 61:1-9); the language can be applied...
The former were local and temporary in their reference. These belong to the distant future, and are world-wide in their interest; the deliverance from Babylon under Cyrus, which he here foretells...
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...
posts of...door--rather, foundations of the thresholds. house--temple. smoke--the Shekinah cloud (1Ki 8:10; Eze 10:4).
believe,...be established--There is a paronomasia, or play on the words, in the Hebrew: "if ye will not confide, ye shall not abide." Ahaz brought distress on himself by distrust in the Lord, and...