Die. Thus the pagans encouraged themselves to feast. (Calmet) --- Ergo vivamus dum licet esse bene. (Petronius) --- This conduct betrayed an entire want of faith. (Calmet) --- "Nothing offends God so much....as contempt proceeding from despair." (St. Jerome)
Verse Isaiah 22:13. _LET US EAT AND DRINK, FOR TO-MORROW WE SHALL DIE._] This has been the language of all those who have sought their portion in this life, since the foundation of the world. So the p...
AND BEHOLD ... - When they ought to give themselves to fasting and prayer, they gave themselves up to revelry and riot. LET US EAT AND DRINK - Saying, Let us eat and drink. That is, it is inevitable t...
CHAPTER 22 The Burden of the Valley of Vision (Jerusalem) 1. _Jerusalem's deplorable state (Isaiah 22:1)_ 2. _The invading armies (Isaiah 22:5)_ 3. _The siege and the calamity (Isaiah 22:8)_ 4. Shebn...
JERUSALEM'S INEXCUSABLE FRIVOLITY. The prophecy apparently belongs to the time of Sennacherib's invasion. Its menacing tone contrasts with that of some other prophecies of the time. The people had pro...
LET US, &C. Note Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6). Supply thus: "[saying,] 'Let us eat', "&c. Compare 1 Corinthians 15:32....
Instead of this the people rush to drown reflection in riotous festivities. The immediate occasion of the revelry was no doubt a great sacrifice of thanksgiving to Jehovah for their unexpected deliver...
The ignoring of Jehovah's presence in this crisis is an unpardonable sin....
Isaiah 22:1-14. The inexpiable sin of Jerusalem The key to this passage the most lurid and minatory of all Isaiah's prophecies is the irreconcileable antagonism between the mood of the prophet and th...
DISCOURSE: 888 THE UNCONCERN OF MEN AMIDST GOD’S CALLS TO REPENTANCE Isaiah 22:12. In that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackclot...
AND IN THAT DAY DID, &C.— Or, _And in that day will,_ &c. Another fault which the prophet imputes to the carnal Jews, is manifest and hardened epicurism, or carnal security, founded in impious and pro...
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO 2. JUDAH a. IRREVERENT ATTITUDES TEXT: Isaiah 22:1-14 1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? 2 O thou that...
And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die. AND BEHOLD (IMPLYING AMAZEMENT AT THE PEOPLE'S INFAT...
The reckless enjoyment of the despairing people, who urged the shortness of the time that remained to them as an excuse for their excesses. LET US EAT, etc.] the argument of men who believed in no her...
JERUSALEM REBUKED A severe rebuke of the conduct of the people of Jerusalem in a time of calamity. The crisis refered to cannot be certainly identified. The difficulty in assigning the passage to Sen...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 22 GOD WARNS *JERUSALEM V1 (A special message that God gave to Isaiah about *Jerusal...
The people were behaving in a very different manner from how the *Lord intended them to behave....
The people only cared about their own pleasures. They did not bother themselves about God’s instructions. They had not obeyed him. And their actions showed that they were not sorry about their evil be...
וְ הִנֵּ֣ה ׀ שָׂשֹׂ֣ון וְ שִׂמְחָ֗ה הָרֹ֤ג ׀
BOOK 4 JERUSALEM AND SENNACHERIB 701 B.C. INTO this fourth book we put all the rest of the prophecies of the Book of Isaiah, that have to do with the prophet's own time: Chapter s 1, 22 and 33, wit...
In the midst of the prophecies concerning the nations occurs one of protest against the indifference of Jerusalem to the prophet's messages. He first describes the joyous people as they stand in contr...
And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us (p) eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die. (p) Instead of repentance you were joyful and made...
Reader! do not fail to remark, how the Lord, by the same process of grace, carries on his merciful designs towards his people, in all ages. He visits their offences with the rod, and their sin with sc...
13._And, behold, joy and gladness. _The Prophet does not here find fault with _joy _viewed in itself; for we see that Paul exhorts the godly to true joy, the “joy” which is “in the Lord,” (Philippians...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. In Chapter s 19 and 20 Egypt shall be smitten in that day; but Jehovah will heal it. Egypt, Assyria, and Israel shall together be blessed of Je...
AND BEHOLD JOY AND GLADNESS,.... As if it was a time of rejoicing, rather than of weeping and mourning; and as if they were at a festival, and in the greatest prosperity and liberty, and not besieged...
And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die. Ver. 13. _And behold joy and gladness._] Or, But behol...
_And in that day did_, or _will, the Lord call_, &c. Another fault, which the prophet imputes to the carnal Jews, is impenitence, or carnal security. He foretels that God would call them to weeping an...
and, behold, instead of such repentance and mourning, JOY AND GLADNESS, SLAYING OXEN, AND KILLING SHEEP, EATING FLESH, AND DRINKING WINE, in obstinate and reckless revelry: LET US EAT AND DRINK, FOR T...
THE ORACLE OF THE VALLEY OF VISION...
8-14 The weakness of Judah now appeared more than ever. Now also they discovered their carnal confidence and their carnal security. They looked to the fortifications. They made sure of water for the...
EATING FLESH; not only for necessity, but to excess and luxury, as _eating and drinking_ are taken, MATTHEW 24:38. LET US EAT AND DRINK; FOR TO-MORROW WE SHALL DIE: the prophets tell us that we shall...
Isaiah 22:13 joy H8342 gladness H8057 Slaying H2026 (H8800) oxen H1241 killing H7819 (H8800) sheep H6629 Eating...
‘And behold, (instead of that there was) joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. “Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we shall die.” ' But instead of weeping an...
CONTENTS: The burden of the valley of vision, telling of coming grievous distress. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah, Elam, Kir, Shebna, Eliakim. CONCLUSION: When God threatens His people with judgment, He ex...
Isaiah 22:1. _The valley of vision._ A valley near Jerusalem, so called because of a school of the prophets said to have been there. Isaiah 22:3. _All thy rulers are fled._ All thy captains of hundred...
_And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping. .. And behold joy and gladness_ A CALL TO REPENTANCE I. THE CALL TO REPENTANCE (Isaiah 22:12). 1. The day here referred to was a season o...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 22:1 The fourth oracle shows the light of the world, Jerusalem, growing dark. ⇐ ⇔...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 22:12 Isaiah contrasts what THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS called for with how his unrepentant people responded (v. Isaiah 22:5
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 22:1 A PROPHECY AGAINST JERUSALEM. The prophet, present in Jerusalem, either actually, or at any rate in spirit, _sees _the inhabitants crowded together upon the housetops, in a sta...
Now in chapter 22 he turns his attention to Jerusalem, which is referred to as the valley of vision. And this is, The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that you've gone up to the h...
1 Corinthians 15:32; Amos 6:3; Isaiah 21:4; Isaiah 21:5; Isaiah 5:12;
Let us, &c. — A most perverse and desperate conclusion....