George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 14:23
Besom. Reducing it to a heap of rubbish, (chap. xiii. 21.; Calmet) as the event shewed. (Watson)
Besom. Reducing it to a heap of rubbish, (chap. xiii. 21.; Calmet) as the event shewed. (Watson)
Verse Isaiah 14:23. _I WILL SWEEP IT WITH THE BESOM OF DESTRUCTION_ - "I will plunge it in the miry gulf of destruction"] I have here very nearly followed the Version of the _Septuagint_; the reasons...
I WILL ALSO MAKE IT A POSSESSION FOR THE BITTERN - The word ‘bittern,’ in English, means a bird with long legs and neck, that stalks among reeds and sedge, feeding upon fish. The Hebrew word (קפד _qı̂...
CHAPTER 14 Israel's Restoration and Blessing After Babylon is Fallen and the Burden of Philistia 1. _Israel's restoration and exaltation (Isaiah 14:1)_ 2. _The proverb against the king of Babylon (Is...
ISAIAH 13:1 TO ISAIAH 14:23. THE UTTER RUIN OF BABYLON AND TRIUMPHAL ODE OVER HER MONARCH'S DEATH. Historical conditions are here presupposed entirely different from those of Isaiah's time. The subjec...
The Epilogue, going back on the concluding threat of ch. 13....
_the bittern_ (ch. Isaiah 34:11; Zephaniah 2:14). Usually rendered "hedgehog" (R.V. PORCUPINE) in accordance with the LXX. and Vulg. and the analogy of Arabic. The bittern certainly suits the scene be...
_ISAIAH 14:22_. _For I will rise,_ &c. Thus the prophet ends this remarkable song, and again informs us, what he had set forth in the first part of this prophesy, that the judgment should not rest in...
c. DESTROYED TEXT: Isaiah 14:21-27 21 Prepare ye slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers, that they rise not up, and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with citi...
I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts. I WILL ALSO MAKE IT A POSSESSION FOR THE BITTERN (Heb...
14:23 bittern, (e-10) According to others, 'the hedgehog.' so ch. 34.11; Zephaniah 2:14 ....
THE JUDGMENT OF BABYLON AND ITS KING This is the first of a series of prophecies dealing mainly with foreign nations. Its subject is Babylon, where the Jews are represented as undergoing exile, from w...
1. STRANGERS] The thought of the voluntary adhesion of strangers is prominent in the later Chapter s of the book (Isaiah 44:5; Isaiah 55:5; Isaiah 60:5)....
POOLS OF WATER] The works of irrigation connected with the Euphrates being destroyed the land would become a morass. This, in fact, happened after the conquest of Babylon by Cyrus....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 14 THE *LORD’S PEOPLE WILL COME HOME V1 The *Lord will pity the peo...
I WILL ALSO MAKE IT A POSSESSION FOR THE BITTERN... — Naturalists are not agreed as to the meaning of the noun. In the LXX. and Vulgate it appears as “hedgehog,” or “porcupine,” and the “tortoise,” “b...
וְ שַׂמְתִּ֛יהָ לְ מֹורַ֥שׁ קִפֹּ֖ד וְ אַגְמֵ
CHAPTER XXVII BABYLON AND LUCIFER DATE UNCERTAIN Isaiah 13:1; Isaiah 14:1 THIS double oracle is against the City Isaiah 13:2; I
BOOK 5 PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary with that - we...
Anticipating the great day of restoration, the prophet puts into the mouth of Israel the great parable or song which celebrates the downfall of Assyria. This moves in five distinct strophes. In the fi...
I do not interrupt the reading through this long chain of the most wonderful events, because it forms one grand whole. The destruction which will ultimately fall upon the enemies of God and of his Chr...
23._And I will make it to be a possession of the hedgehog. _(228) He again confirms the same things which he formerly predicted, namely, that henceforth it will not be a habitation of men, but will re...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14. With chapter 12 one division of the whole book closes. That which commences with chapter 13 continues to the end of chapter 27, which describes th...
I WILL ALSO MAKE IT A POSSESSION FOR THE BITTERN,.... Instead of being possessed by any of the family of the king of Babylon. The "bittern" is a kind of water fowl, which, by putting its bill into mir...
I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts. Ver. 23. _I will also make it a possession for the bi...
_Prepare slaughter for his children_ O ye Medes and Persians, cut off all the branches of the royal family. This, it is probable, was actually done, for Belshazzar being slain, and the monarchy transl...
I will also make it, the site of Babylon, A POSSESSION FOR THE BITTERN, or an animal something like the porcupine which inhabits the wastes of the Euphrates Valley, AND POOLS OF WATER, swamps resultin...
PROPHECIES AGAINST ASSYRIA AND PHILISTIA...
THE DELIVERANCE OF ISRAEL...
1-23 The whole plan of Divine Providence is arranged with a view to the good of the people of God. A settlement in the land of promise is of God's mercy. Let the church receive those whom God receive...
THE BITTERN; a great water fowl, which thrusting its bill into some broken reed, or hollow thing, makes a great noise; which also delights in solitary places, as also in waterish grounds, such as thos...
Isaiah 14:23 make H7760 (H8804) possession H4180 porcupine H7090 marshes H98 water H4325 sweep H2894 (H8773) broom...
THE DEMISE OF BABYLON AND HUMILIATION OF ITS BOASTFUL KINGS (ISAIAH 14:3). The coming of the Babylonian ambassadors to Hezekiah had had a profound influence on Isaiah. As he thought on the future, wit...
Isaiah 14:1. _For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jaco...
CONTENTS: Christ's Kingdom set up on earth with Israel restored, the Beast of hell. Satan's fall and doom. Babylon's final judgment. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: It is the comfort of God's people tha...
Isaiah 14:1. _And set them in their own land._ This prediction is so correct, as appears from the books of Nehemiah and Ezra, that no man can doubt the truth of prophecy; and its literal accomplishmen...
_Thou shalt take up this proverb against the King of Babylon_ THE “PROVERB AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON” Lowth is generally thought not to speak with exaggeration when he calls it the finest [song] o...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 14:22 With three declarations of divine resolve—DECLARES THE LORD—the true Ruler of history vows to SWEEP the dynasty of Babylon away, preserving no...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 14:1 THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL, AND HER SONG OF TRIUMPH OVER BABYLON. The destruction of Babylon is to be followed by the restoration of Israel, with the good w
For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob (Isaiah 14:1...
1 Kings 14:10; 2 Kings 21:13; Isaiah 13:21; Isaiah 13:22; Isaiah
Bittern — A great water fowl, which delights in solitary places, as also in watery grounds. Such as those were about Babylon. Pools — The ground about Babylon was of itself very moist, because of the...