Commentaries Dictionaries Concordances

Commentary Critical and Explanatory

Isaiah 29:6

Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

Thou - the Assyrian army.

Shalt be visited ... with thunder ... - not literally fulfilled in the case of the Assyrians (); but figuratively, in their case, for an awful judgment (; ). The ulterior fulfillment in the case of the Jews' foes in the last days may be more literal (see as to "earthquake," ).

Continues after advertising

See also Isaiah 29:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THOU SHALT BE VISITED - This is an address to the mighty army of the Assyrian. Such transitions are not uncommon in the writings of Isaiah. His eye seems to have been directed in vision to the hosts o...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 29 The Second Woe Against Ariel and the Third Woe 1. _The fall of Ariel (Jerusalem) predicted (Isaiah 29:1)_ 2. _Their enemies dealt with by Jehovah (Isaiah 29:5)_ 3. The people's condition:...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 29. THE DOOM OF ARIEL. Possibly Isaiah 29:7 f., with most of Isaiah 29:5, is an insertion to turn a prophecy of judgment into one of mercy. Isaiah 29:1 is then a prophecy of ruin to Jerusalem,...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    VISITED. These judgments (in Isaiah 29:6) refer to the deliverance from Jerusalem's enemies. THE LORD OF HOSTS. See note on 1 Samuel 1:3....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Isaiah 29:1-14. The announcement of Jehovah's wonderful purpose regarding Jerusalem, and its reception on the part of the people Under the second "Woe" (Isaiah 29:1) are grouped two oracles, which ma...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See ch. Isaiah 30:27-33. The last words of Isaiah 29:5 should be read as part of this sentence. AND SUDDENLY, FULL SUDDENLY, SHE SHALL BE VISITED, &c. The word for "visit" is ambiguous, being freely u...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The discomfiture and dispersion of Zion's enemies in the hour of their triumph....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    MOREOVER, THE MULTITUDE— Vitringa is of opinion, that this passage sets forth the event of these hostile attempts against Jerusalem, particularly with respect to the Assyrians; in which view it is ext...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. SUCCESS TEXT: Isaiah 29:1-8 1 Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! add ye year to year; let the feasts come round: 2 then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lame...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    WARNINGS TO JUDAH These Chapter s refer to the state of affairs during the reign of Hezekiah, when Palestine was threatened by Assyria, and an influential party in Judah favoured resistance, relying...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    She quickly changed her mind. She saw that he wanted to be with her. And she decided to open the door. But it took time for her to put on her dress again. And when, at last, she had opened the door fo...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 29 THE FATE OF *JERUSALEM V1 *Woe to *Jerusalem, the city of David! It will not matt...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THOU SHALT BE VISITED... — Better, _She_ (_i.e.,_ Jerusalem). The words may be figurative, but they may also be literal. Some terrific storm, acting as an “angel of the Lord” (Isaiah 37:36; Psalms 104...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מֵ עִ֨ם יְהוָ֤ה צְבָאֹות֙ תִּפָּקֵ֔ד בְּ רַ֥ע

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 3 ORATIONS ON THE EGYPTIAN INTRIGUES AND ORACLES ON FOREIGN NATIONS 705-702 B.C. Isaiah: 29 About 703 30 A little later 31 A little later 32:1-8 Later 32:9-20 Date uncertain ------------...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This is the first of a series of declamations concerning the chosen people, and sets forth the purpose of Jehovah in judgment. The message opens with a description of the judgment (verses Isa 29:1-4),...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Thunder. Psalm lxxv. 7. Tharaca was coming to assist Ezechias, chap. xxxvii. 36. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here are the same, or similar denunciations, as have been before noticed. God's judgments for men's rebellion. And what makes the whole most awful, is, that those judgments and punishments remain unsa...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _JERUSALEM’S IMPENDING HUMILIATION AND DELIVERANCE_ ‘Woe to Ariel,’ etc. Isaiah 29:1 I. THE PROPHET SETS FORTH IN Isaiah 29:1 THE THEME OF HIS DISCOURSE.—For he announces to Ariel, i.e. to the city...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    6._From Jehovah of hosts shalt thou be visited. _He next assigns the reason why all this multitude of garrisons shall be “like chaff;” and he expresses this by an opposite metaphor, for with those sol...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Jerusalem is reduced to the last extremity. But this time Jehovah appears for her deliverance, and the multitude of her enemies disappear as a dream of the night. Everything is dark and gloomy as to t...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THOU SHALT BE VISITED OF THE LORD OF HOSTS WITH THUNDER, AND WITH EARTHQUAKE, AND GREAT NOISE,.... That is, not the multitude of strangers and terrible ones, unless they could be understood of the wic...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire. Ver. 6. _Thou shalt be visited with thunder and...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Moreover_ Or, rather, _But, the multitude of thy strangers_ Of the strangers that encamp and fight against thee; _shall be like small dust_ Dispersed by the least breath of air; _and the multitude of...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thou, Jerusalem, SHALT BE VISITED, but graciously, with a view to deliverance, OF THE LORD OF HOSTS, the mighty Commander of the heavenly armies, WITH THUNDER, AND WITH EARTHQUAKE, AND GREAT NOISE, WI...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE WOE UPON ARIEL...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-8 Ariel may signify the altar of burnt-offerings. Let Jerusalem know that outward religious services will not make men free from judgements. Hypocrites never can please God, nor make their peace wi...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THOU, O Ariel or Jerusalem, of or to whom this whole context manifestly speaks, _shalt be visited_ with dreadful judgments, which are frequently expressed in the prophets by these and such-like metaph...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 29:6 punished H6485 (H8735) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 thunder H7482 earthquake H7494 great H1419 noise H6963 storm

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘But the multitude of your alien foes will be like small dust, And the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passes away. Yes, it will be at an instant suddenly,' From Yahweh of hosts she wi...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Warnings to Judah and Jerusalem of impending discipline. The blessing after the final deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, David, Abraham. CONCLUSION: Those who are formal and hypocritical in the...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 29:1. _Woe to Ariel,_ the lion of God, or the strong lion, for _El_ is often rendered _strong_ or _rock,_ as in Psalms 42:9. “God my rock.” The city of Jerusalem was that strong rock, or strong...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 29:5 See Isaiah 37:36. AND IN AN INSTANT, SUDDENLY, YOU WILL BE VISITED BY THE LORD OF HOSTS. God will deliver the

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 29:1 A WARNING TO JERUSALEM. Expostulation is followed by threats. The prophet is aware that all his preaching to the authorities in Jerusalem (Isaiah 28:14) will be of no avail, an...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter 29, the woe unto Jerusalem. Ariel means the lion of God. It is one of the names for Jerusalem. Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, [the lion of God] the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let th...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 12:17; 1 Samuel 12:18; 1 Samuel 2:10; 2 Samuel 22:14; I

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Thou — Thou, O Jerusalem. Fire — With dreadful judgments, which are frequently expressed by these metaphors....

Continues after advertising