Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: 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 calls on the whole world to witness the event (Isaiah 18:3). A... [ Continue Reading ]
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled! THAT SENDETH AMBASSAD... [ Continue Reading ]
All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. ALL YE INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD ... SEE YE ... HEAR YE - rather, ye shall see-shall hear. Call to the whole earth to be witnesses of what Yah... [ Continue Reading ]
For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. FOR SO THE LORD SAID UNTO ME, I WILL TAKE MY REST, AND I WILL CONSIDER IN MY DWELLING PLACE - I will calmly look on from heave... [ Continue Reading ]
For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. FOR - rather, But in contrast to God's seemingly favouring the enemy while their projects against Judah were... [ Continue Reading ]
They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. THEY SHALL BE LEFT TOGETHER UNTO THE FOWLS ... AND ... BEASTS - transition from the image, "sprigs," "branche... [ Continue Reading ]
In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.... [ Continue Reading ]