Verse Isaiah 9:14. _IN ONE DAY._] _Thirteen_ MSS. of _Kennicott_ and _De_ _Rossi_ read ביום _beyom_, in a day; and another has a rasure in the place of the letter ב _beth_....
WILL CUT OFF HEAD AND TAIL - This is a proverbial expression, which is explained in the following verse; see also Deuteronomy 28:13. The head is often used to denote those in honor and authority. The...
CHAPTER 9 The Message of Hope Concerning Israel's Future and the Impending Judgments 1. _The Messiah, His Name, His rule, His kingdom (Isaiah 9:1)_ 2. _Judgment upon Israel (Isaiah 9:8)_ 3. The impen...
ISAIAH 9:8 TO ISAIAH 10:4. YAHWEH SMITES EPHRAIM WITH STROKE AFTER STROKE. It is generally agreed that Isaiah 5:26 formed the closing strophe of this poem (p. 440). The date is probably before the coa...
RUSH. Hebrew. _'agmon._ Occurs twice in "former" portion, here and Isaiah 19:15. and once in "latter" portion (Isaiah 58:5, "bulrush"). Elsewhere only in Job 41:2;...
Isaiah 9:8 to Isaiah 10:4 (+ Isaiah 5:25-30) Jehovah's hand stretched out in wrath over His people. An oracle against North Israel The key-note of the prophecy is given in the recurrent refrain...
Render: AND ( SO) JEHOVAH CUT OFF FROM ISRAEL HEAD AND TAIL, PALM-BRANCH AND RUSH, IN ONE DAY. _head and tail_ i.e. leader and follower, a proverbial expression, like the next phrase. 15 is almost uni...
Second strophe. It describes a "day" of terror (which may be either a battle or a revolution) in which the leaders of the people suddenly perished. What incident is referred to cannot be determined; r...
FOR THE PEOPLE TURNETH NOT, &C.— We have here the second crime of this refractory people, who, _impenitent_ and _stupid,_ regarded not the chastisement of the Lord, nor turned to him at his reproof. T...
ISRAEL'S PRESUMPTION TEXT: Isaiah 9:8-17 8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. 9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say...
BRANCH] EV 'palm branch': 'palm-branch and rush'—a proverbial expression signifying high and low (Isaiah 19:15)....
DIVINE JUDGMENTS ON THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL This section relates throughout to the kingdom of Israel. It belongs to the same period as the Chapter s immediately preceding, and treats of the ruin which I...
(CONTINUED) 8. Jacob.. Israel] Both names here stand for the northern kingdom, as is made clear by what follows in the next v....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 9 THE FUTURE KING V1 But soon, those who have suffered so gr...
HEAD AND TAIL, BRANCH AND RUSH... — The “branch” is strictly that of the palm-tree, which in its stately height answered to the nobles of the land, while the “rush,” the emblem of a real or affected l...
_[Isaiah 9:13]_ וַ יַּכְרֵ֨ת יְהוָ֜ה מִ יִּשְׂרָאֵ֗ל...
CHAPTER VII THE MESSIAH WE have now reached that point of Isaiah's prophesying at which the Messiah becomes the most conspicuous figure on his horizon. Let us take advantage of it to gather into one...
CHAPTER III THE VINEYARD OF THE LORD, OR TRUE PATRIOTISM THE CONSCIENCE OF OUR COUNTRY'S SINS 735 B.C. Isaiah 5:1; Isaiah 9:8 - Isaiah 10:4 THE prophecy contained in these Chapter s belongs, as we...
FALSE LEADERSHIP BRINGS RUIN Isaiah 9:8-17 The grievous sins of the Chosen People are again enumerated. They defied God, Isaiah 8:9-10. They refused to repent; they were blind and deaf and profane, I...
Here we have the message of hope (verses Isa 9:1-7) in the glorious picture of the Coming Deliverer, with the equally glorious record of the results of His Coming. It is one of the greatest Messianic...
_Him. Hebrew, "the branch and the rush." (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "the great and the small."_...
Here is the sad cause of the Prophet's lamentation, and a miserable close he makes indeed of the sorrowful subject, at every termination: for the thing explains itself. The Lord corrects in mercy; but...
14._Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel. _He intimates that God’s vengeance will be universal, and will involve all ranks; for the whole nation was corrupted, and the contagion had spread over...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9:1-7. But this requires further development; and it is given in a remarkable manner in the next prophecy, comprised in Chapter s 7, 8, 9 to the end...
THEREFORE THE LORD WILL CUT OFF FROM ISRAEL HEAD AND TAIL,.... The former of these is afterwards interpreted of "the ancient and honourable", men in high places, civil magistrates, judges, governors,...
Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. Ver. 14. _Head and tail,_] _i.e., _ High and low _a_ _as _ Isa 9:15 Here he compareth Israel, _non sine morsu,_...
_For the people turneth not_, &c. We have here the second crime of this refractory people, who, impenitent and stupid, regarded not the chastisement of the Lord, nor turned to him at his reproof. Ther...
Jehovah's Hand Stretched our in Judgment...
Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel, in wreaking His final vengeance upon the rebellious people, HEAD AND TAIL, BRANCH AND RUSH, IN ONE DAY, in one great destruction. The prophet explains the...
8-21 Those are ripening apace for ruin, whose hearts are unhumbled under humbling providences. For that which God designs, in smiting us, is, to turn us to himself; and if this point be not gained by...
HEAD AND TAIL; high and low, honourable and contemptible, as the next verse explains it. BRANCH; the goodly branches of tall and strong trees, the mighty and noble. RUSH; the bulrush, the weakest and...
Isaiah 9:14 LORD H3068 off H3772 (H8686) head H7218 tail H2180 Israel H3478 branch H3712 bulrush H100 one...
THE SECOND CHASTISEMENT. THE REMOVAL OF THE LEADERSHIP (ISAIAH 9:13). Analysis. a Yet the people have not turned to Him who smote them, nor have they sought Yahweh of hosts (Isaiah 9:13). b Therefor...
CONTENTS: A divine child, the only hope of Israel. Vision of the outstretched hand. The unavailing chastisement. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Isaiah, Rezin. CONCLUSION: In the worst of times, God's peopl...
Isaiah 9:1. _The dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation._ Dr. Lightfoot infers from this, that there was much greater affliction in the first days of her vexation. All the Versions differ ve...
_Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tall, branch and rush, in one day_ GOD GIVING ACCOUNT OF HIS ACTIONS I. THE GROUND OR OCCASION OF THE JUDGMENT in the particle “therefore.” Wher...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 9:14 IN ONE DAY. Judgment comes suddenly, perhaps referring to 722 B.C., when the northern kingdom fell. ⇐...
TRUE NATIONAL GREATNESS Isaiah 19:1; Isaiah 19:14. _The burden of Egypt, &c._ The prophecies of Isaiah take a wide range, embrace the fortunes of almost every nation, however remote, with whom the Is...
THE DUTY OF THE AFFLICTED Isaiah 9:9. _And all the people shall know, &c._ God here complains of what Israel did when grievous and prolonged afflictions, sent by God, fell upon them [935] then they...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 9:1 THE TROUBLES OF ISRAEL SHALL END THROUGH THE BIRTH OF A MARVELOUS CHILD. The section of the prophecy commencing with...
Now as we get into chapter 9, he said, Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afte...
2 Kings 17:6; Amos 2:14; Amos 3:12; Amos 5:2; Amos 5:3;...
Head — High and low. Branch — The goodly branches of tall trees, the mighty and noble. Rush — The bulrush, the weakest and meanest persons. One day — All together, one as well as another....