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Verse Isaiah 64:2. _AS WHEN THE MELTING FIRE BURNETH_ - "As the fire
kindleth the dry fuel"] המסים _hamasim_. "It means _dry stubble_,
and the root is המס _hamas_," says _Rabbi Jonah_, apud _Sal. ben...
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AS WHEN THE MELTING FIRE BURNETH - Margin, ‘The fire of meltings.’
Lowth renders it, ‘As when the fire kindleth the dry fuel.’ So
Noyes, ‘As fire kindleth the dry stubble.’ The Septuagint render
it: Ω...
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CHAPTER 63:7-19-64:12
The Great Intercessory Prayer
1. _Jehovah's loving kindness and power in the past remembered (Isaiah
63:7) _ 2. _Their deepest need (Isaiah 63:15) _ 3. The cry of faith,
Thou ar...
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ISAIAH 63:15 TO ISAIAH 64:9. A FERVENT PRAYER TO YAHWEH TO INTERVENE
AGAIN FOR HIS CHILDREN. The appeal rings like a litany, reminding
Yahweh, who has withdrawn into His glorious heavenly palace, of H...
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MELTING. The Hebrew word occurs only here, and is plural.
THY NAME. See note on Psalms 20:1....
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Render: AS FIRE KINDLETH BRUSHWOOD, AS FIRE MAKETH WATER BOIL, &c.
_to make thy name known to thine adversaries &c._ the purpose of the
Theophany. Cf. ch. Isaiah 59:18-19....
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Isaiah 64:1. The language of complaint again gives place (as in Isaiah
63:15) to impatient prayer for a Theophany, an imposing manifestation
of Jehovah in His might. It is the great "day of the Lord...
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Isaiah 63:7 to Isaiah 64:12. A Prayer of the People for the Renewal of
Jehovah's former Lovingkindness
(1) Isaiah 63:7. The prayer begins with thankful commemoration of
Jehovah's goodness to the nati...
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OH THAT THOU WOULDST REND, &C.— _Wouldst rend,_ &c. Isaiah 64:2 _as
the fire kindleth the dry fuel; as the fire causeth the waters to
boil,_ &c. Lowth. The ideas are here taken from the descent of God...
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D. RESTLESSNESS OF ZION (cont-'d), Chapter S 63 - 64
4. PENITENTLY VEXED
TEXT: Isaiah 64:1-7
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Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down,
that the mountains might quake a...
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1-3. The imagery is taken from the account of the divine manifestation
at Sinai (Exodus 19:18)....
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RV 'As when fire kindleth the brushwood, _and_ the fire causeth,' etc....
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These verses contain a series of word pictures that describe the
effect of God’s arrival....
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 64
This chapter continues the people’s desperate prayer, which began
at...
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Fire is a sign that God is present (see Exodus 3:2; see also Acts
2:3).
But he is not there just to look. He comes to act. Like fire, he makes
things happen. Fire causes bushes to burn and water to b...
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AS WHEN THE MELTING FIRE BURNETH... — Better, _as when fire Kindleth
brushwood, as when fire causeth the water to boil._ The two-fold
action of material fire is used, as elsewhere, as a symbol of the...
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_[Isaiah 64:1]_ כִּ קְדֹ֧חַ אֵ֣שׁ הֲמָסִ֗ים
מַ֚יִם...
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CHAPTER XXV
A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT
Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1
WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been
considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemption had re...
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A CRY FOR PARDON
Isaiah 64:1-12
_The great past_, Isaiah 64:1-5. We are introduced to the prophet's
oratory and hear the outpourings of his heart. As he recalls the story
of bygone days, he asks that...
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The praise and confession merge into a prayer in which the sore need
of the people is first described, and then a cry full of intense
anguish is lifted for the dawning of the day when Jehovah will act...
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As [when] the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth (b) the waters to
boil, to make thy name known to thy adversaries, [that] the nations
may tremble at thy presence!
(b) Meaning, the rain, hail, fi...
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_They. Septuagint, "As wax melts before the fire, so also fire will
burn the adversaries, and thy," &c. (Haydock) --- Burn. Sparks of fire
seem to proceed from it._...
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Here is a most fervent, animated prayer, in which the Church petitions
her Lord, that by the sovereignty of his grace, and the outpouring of
his Holy Spirit, he would so come forth, and come down in t...
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2._As by the burning of a melting fire, _(186) the fire hath made the
water to boil. All this might be read either in the future or in the
subjunctive; as if he had said, “O Lord, if thou camest down,...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 64 AND 65.
The next two Chapter s give us a full revelation of the dealings of
God in answer to this appeal. First of all, God, through His grace,
had been so...
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AS WHEN THE MELTING FIRE BURNETH,.... Or, "the fire of melting" k; a
strong vehement fire, as Kimchi, such as is used under a furnace for
melting metals; though De Dieu thinks a slow gentle fire is in...
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As [when] the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to
boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, [that] the nations
may tremble at thy presence!
Ver. 2. _As when the melting fire...
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_O that thou wouldest rend the heavens_ This God is said to do, or to
_bow the heavens, and come down_, when he gives a very signal display
of his power. It is a metaphor taken from men who, when they...
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as when the melting fire burneth, consuming brushwood in the twinkling
of an eye, THE FIRE CAUSETH THE WATERS TO BOIL, literally, "as fire
makes the water swell and seethe," TO MAKE THY NAME KNOWN TO...
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V. 1. OH, THAT THOU WOULDEST REND THE HEAVENS, so the suppliant now
begs the Lord, THAT THOU WOULDEST COME DOWN, bursting forth to execute
vengeance, suddenly descending on Thy people's foes, THAT THE...
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THE MELTING FIRE:
_ Heb._ the fire of meltings...
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1-5 They desire that God would manifest himself to them and for them,
so that all may see it. This is applicable to the second coming of
Christ, when the Lord himself shall descend from heaven. They...
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AS WHEN THE MELTING FIRE BURNETH; come with such zeal for thy people,
that the solid mountains may be no more before thy breath than metal
that runs, or water that boils by the force of a vehement fir...
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Isaiah 64:2 fire H784 burns H6919 (H8800) brushwood H2003 fire H784
water H4325 boil H1158 name H8034 known...
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ISAIAH'S HEART CRY TO YAHWEH FOR HIM TO WORK DRAMATICALLY (ISAIAH
64:1).
Isaiah 64:1
‘Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down,
That the mountains might flow down at your presen...
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Isaiah 64:1
I. This is nothing less than a prayer that God would manifest Himself
as a Judge yes, and as a Destroyer. Isaiah craved for a man who should
deliver men from the oppressions of the world's...
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Isaiah 64:1. _Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou
wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy
presence, as when the melting fire burneth,_
Or, much better, «as when th...
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CONTENTS: Fear and hope of remnant of Israel in day of vengeance.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ.
CONCLUSION: The remnant of Israel in the day of Christ's vengeance
will bewail their sins, thereby justifyi...
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Isaiah 64:1. A new scene of prophetic events opens here, where the
prophet in time of trouble cries the more in spirit to the Messiah.
_Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens and come down._ It is
str...
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_Oh that Thou wouldest rend the heavens_
PRAYER FOR DIVINE MANIFESTATION
I. This is nothing less than A PRAYER THAT GOD WOULD MANIFEST HIMSELF
AS A JUDGE--yes, and as a Destroyer. Isaiah craved for a...
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A PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL REVIVAL
Isaiah 64:1. _Oh that Thou wouldst rend the heavens, that Thou wouldst
come down, &c._
It is not into the mouth of every Israelite that the prophet puts this
prayer: on...
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EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 64:1
ISRAEL'S PRAYER CONTINUED AND CONCLUDED. Not content with praying God
to look upon them once more with favour (Isaiah 63:15), Israel now
asks for a theophany, or manifesta
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Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, and that
the mountains might flow down at thy presence, As when the melting
fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil, and makes thy...
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1 Kings 8:41; 1 Samuel 17:46; 1 Samuel 17:47; Daniel 4:1; Daniel 4:
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Fire — Come with such zeal for thy people, that the solid mountains
may be no more before thy breath, than metal that runs, or water that
boils by the force of a vehement fire. Known — That thine enem...