Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. Isaiah 34:1; Isaiah 35:1 form one prophecy, the former part of which denounces Gods judgments against His people's enemies, of whom Edom is the rep... [ Continue Reading ]
For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. HE HATH UTTERLY DESTROYED THEM - rather, doomed them to an utter curse; Hebrew, hechªriymaam (H2763) (Horsley). HE HATH DELIVERED TH... [ Continue Reading ]
Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. THEIR SLAIN ALSO SHALL BE CAST OUT - unburied (). THE MOUNTAINS SHALL BE MELTED WITH THEIR BLOOD - "melted:" washed away as with a descending torrent.... [ Continue Reading ]
And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree. ALL THE HOST OF HEAVEN SHALL BE DISSOLVED - (; ; ; .) DISSOLVED - (2 Peter 3:10... [ Continue Reading ]
For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. MY SWORD - (.) Or else, knife for sacrifice; because God does not here appear as a warrior with His sword, but as one about to sacrifice victims doomed to slaughter (Vitr... [ Continue Reading ]
The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. THE SWORD OF THE LORD IS FILLED WITH BLOOD - glutted. The ima... [ Continue Reading ]
And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. THE UNICORNS - Hebrew, reem; conveying the idea of loftiness, power, and preeminence (see note, ). The Arabian rim is two-horned: it was th... [ Continue Reading ]
For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion. FOR (IT IS) THE DAY OF THE LORD'S VENGEANCE, (AND) THE YEAR OF RECOMPENCES FOR THE CONTROVERSY OF ZION - i.e., the year when God will retaliate on those who have contended with Zion. Her controve... [ Continue Reading ]
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. THE STREAMS THEREOF ... - images from the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah (; so ; Jeremiah 49:17).... [ Continue Reading ]
It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. IT - the "burning pitch" (). SMOKE ... FOR EVER - (; ; ). FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION - (.) NONE SHALL PASS THROU... [ Continue Reading ]
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. THE CORMORANT - the Hebrew, quaath, is rendered, in Psalms 102:6, pelican. The best authorities think the pelican... [ Continue Reading ]
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing. THEY SHALL CALL THE NOBLES THEREOF TO THE KINGDOM, BUT NONE (SHALL BE) THERE - rather, As to her nobles, there shall be none there (there shall no more nobles be left) who shall decl... [ Continue Reading ]
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls. AN HABITATION OF DRAGONS - (note, Isaiah 3:21.) COURT FOR OWLS - rather, a dwelling for ostriches (note, ).... [ Continue Reading ]
The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. WILD BEASTS OF THE DESERT ... WILD BEASTS OF THE ISLAND - rather, wild cats ... jackals (Isaiah 13... [ Continue Reading ]
There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate. THE GREAT OWL - qipowz (H7091); or, the darting tree serpent [the akontias of AElian, the jaculus of Lucan]. Avicenna uses the cognate Arab... [ Continue Reading ]
Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them. SEEK YE OUT OF THE BOOK OF THE LORD - the volume in which the various prophecies and other parts of Scripture began henceforw... [ Continue Reading ]
And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein. HE HATH CAST THE LOT - as conquerors apportion lands by lot, so Yahweh has appointed and marked out ("divided") Edom for the... [ Continue Reading ]