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Ask a Questionleaders, &c.--(See Isa 3:12, Margin, and see on Isa 3:12.)
Just as Miriam, after the deliverance of the Red Sea (Isa 11:16), celebrated it with an ode of praise (Ex 15:1-19).
opened not...house...prisoners--But Maurer, as Margin, "Did not let his captives loose homewards."
residue...diminished--The remnant of Arab warriors, famous in the bow, left after the invasion, shall be small.
utterly destroyed--rather, "doomed them to an utter curse" [Horsley]. delivered--rather, "appointed."
Images from the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah (Ge 19:24-28; so De29:23; Jer 49:17, 18).
Hena...Ivah--in Babylonia. From Ava colonists had been brought to Samaria (2Ki 17:24).
remnant--Judah remained after the ten tribes were carried away; also those of Judah who should survive Sennacherib's invasion are meant.
The couches in the East run along the walls of houses. He turned away from the spectators to hide his emotion and collect his thoughts for prayer.
The prayer and thanksgiving song of Hezekiah is only given here, not in the parallel passages of Second Kings and Second Chronicles. Isa38:9 is the heading or inscription.
young men--literally, "those selected"; men picked out on account of their youthful vigor for an enterprise.
Be of good courage--Be not alarmed because of Cyrus, but make new images to secure the favor of the gods against him.
ashamed--put to the shame of defeat (compare Isa 54:17; Ro 9:33).
ashamed--"disappointed" in their expectation of help from their idols (see on Isa 42:17; Psalm 97. 7).
former--namely, proofs of the sole Godship of Jehovah, from predictions fulfilled, and interpositions of God in behalf of Israel (Isa 45:5).
Sodom--spiritually (Ge 19:24; Jer 23:14; Eze 16:46; Re 11:8).
found--in the city. joined--"intercepted" [Maurer]. "Every one that has withdrawn himself," namely, to hide in the houses [Gesenius].
look to his Maker--instead of trusting in their fortresses--(Isa17:3; Mic 7:7).
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 ...
the earth--rather, "the land" of Judah (so in Isa 24:3, 5, 6; Joe1:2). The desolation under Nebuchadnezzar prefigured that under Titus.
fortress--the strongholds of Moab, the representative of the foes of God's people [Barnes]. Babylon [Maurer]. The society of infidels represented as a city (Re 11:8).
Image from a curve swelling out in a wall (Ps 62:3); when the former gives way, it causes the downfall of the whole wall; so their policy as to Egypt.
The Assyrian rod which beat shall itself be beaten, and that by the mere voice of the Lord, that is, an unseen divine agency (Isa 10:5,24).
cast out--unburied (Isa 14:19). melted--washed away as with a descending torrent.
not a word--so as not to enter into a war of words with the blasphemer (Ex 14:14; Jude 9).
The strongest argument to plead before God in prayer, the honor of God (Ex 32:12-14; Ps 83:18; Da 9:18, 19).
creator of Israel--(Isa 43:1). your--proved to be specially yours by delivering you.