George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 27:10
City. Jerusalem, (Challoner) or more probably Babylon, of which he is going to speak.
City. Jerusalem, (Challoner) or more probably Babylon, of which he is going to speak.
Verse Isaiah 27:10. _THERE SHALL THE CALF FEED_] That is, the king of Egypt, says _Kimchi_....
YET THE DEFENSED CITY - Gesenius supposes that this means Jerusalem. So Calvin and Piscator understand it. Others understand it of Samaria, others of Babylon (as Vitringa, Rosenmuller, and Grotius), a...
CHAPTER 27 ISRAEL'S ENEMIES OVERTHROWN AND THE GREAT RESTORATION 1. _Assyria, Babylon and Egypt punished (Isaiah 27:1)_ 2. _What Jehovah has done and will do (Isaiah 27:2)_ 3. The vineyard established...
ISRAEL'S GENTLE CHASTISEMENT AND THE TERMS ON WHICH IT MAY BE PARDONED. This is an insertion out of connexion with the context, and it does not itself hang well together. The writer asks, Has Yahweh p...
YET. For. FORSAKEN. See note on Isaiah 1:4. CONSUME. devour....
A summons to national repentance and reformation. Has Israel suffered the extremity of Divine punishment as its oppressors have done (7)? There is a ground of hope in the moderation displayed by Jehov...
_Yet the defenced city …_ Render with R.V.: FOR THE DEFENCED CITY IS SOLITARY, AN HABITATION DESERTED (lit. "expelled") AND FORSAKEN, &c. The verbs throughout are in the present tense....
A picture of the desolation of Jerusalem, and the explanation of it. The commoner view is that the same hostile city as in Isaiah 25:2; Isaiah 26:5 is referred to, but the latter part of Isaiah 27:11...
BY THIS THEREFORE, &C.— By _this,_ &c.—_And this shall be all the fruit of removing his sin, that he make all the stones of the altar as chalkstones beaten asunder,_ &c. Isaiah 27:10 _because the defe...
2. JOINED BY DIVINE PURGING TEXT: Isaiah 27:7-13 7 Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them? 8 In measu...
Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. THE DEFE...
1. The powers hostile to God's people are here symbolically represented as monsters. LEVIATHAN THE PIERCING (RV 'swift') SERPENT perhaps stands for Assyria, watered by the rapid Tigris, and 'leviathan...
DEFENCED CITY] i.e. of the enemies (as in Isaiah 25:2). Some, however, understand Jerusalem, which must for a season be desolate....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 27 GOD’S JUDGEMENT AGAINST LEVIATHAN V1 On that day, the *Lord will seize his powerf...
No names appear. We have here a general description of society without God. If people leave out God from their lives, they merely exist. Life has no purpose. GOD’S GREAT PURPOSE V12 On that day the...
THE DEFENCED CITY SHALL BE DESOLATE... — The key to this prediction is found in Isaiah 25:2, where the same words occur. The “defenced city” is that of the strangers, who are the enemies of God’s peop...
כִּ֣י עִ֤יר בְּצוּרָה֙ בָּדָ֔ד נָוֶ֕ה מְשֻׁלָּ֥ח...
CHAPTER XXIX GOD'S POOR DATE UNCERTAIN Isaiah 25:1; Isaiah 26:1; Isaiah 27:1 WE have seen that no more than the faintest gleam of historical reflection brightens the obscurity of chapter 24, and th...
GOD'S CARE FOR HIS VINEYARD Isaiah 27:1-13 Throughout these Chapter s we must remember that the doom of Babylon and the restoration of God's people are symbolical of other events, for which the world...
This circle of prophecy ends with a message which describes the process toward ultimate restoration, and announces its certainty. The way to restoration is the way of judgment, and this the prophet fi...
Yet the (k) fortified city [shall be] desolate, [and] the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume its branches. (k) Not wi...
All these are so many different expressions, to intimate that the Lord's mercy to his people is all of grace, and not for their deserts. The Lord watcheth over them for good; but it is for the exaltat...
10._Yet the defenced city shall be desolate _Here the copulative ו (_vau_) is generally supposed to mean _for_, and some take it for _otherwise_. There will thus be a twofold interpretation; for if we...
Finally, Jehovah invites His people to hide themselves a little moment, while He comes out of His place to execute vengeance (chap. 27). The power of Satan in this world and among men shall be destroy...
YET THE DEFENCED CITY [SHALL BE] DESOLATE,.... Or "but", or "notwithstanding" b; though the Lord deals mercifully with his own people, and mixes mercy with their afflictions, and causes them to issue...
Yet the defenced city [shall be] desolate, [and] the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. Ver. 10...
_Yet_, &c. Before this glorious promise, concerning the removal of Israel's sin and calamity, shall be fulfilled, a dreadful and desolating judgment shall come upon them. _The defenced city shall be d...
Yet the defensed city, the center of worldly power, SHALL BE DESOLATE AND THE HABITATION FORSAKEN AND LEFT LIKE A WILDERNESS, without inhabitants; THERE SHALL THE CALF FEED, AND THERE SHALL HE LIE DOW...
THE GATHERING OF THE CHURCH...
6-13 In the days of the gospel, the latter days, the gospel church shall be more firmly fixed than the Jewish church, and shall spread further. May our souls be continually watered and kept, that we...
YET; yet before this glorious promise concerning the removal of Israel's sin and calamity be fulfilled, a dreadful and desolating judgment shall first come upon them. THE DEFENCED CITY; Jerusalem, and...
Isaiah 27:10 fortified H1219 (H8803) city H5892 desolate H910 habitation H5116 forsaken H7971 (H8794) left H5800 ...
THE FATE OF THE DEFENCED CITY (ISAIAH 27:10). They must not put their trust in their defenced cities, for those will fail them. For, because of their lack of understanding, their defenced city will be...
CONTENTS: Punishment of the proud enemy of God's people. Israel restored and fruitful. CHARACTERS: God, serpent, dragon. CONCLUSION: When the Lord comes to punish the inhabitants of the earth, He wil...
Isaiah 27:1. _In that day the Lord shall punish leviathan._ It would seem that the Assyrian and Chaldean empire are here intended. See on Job 41:1; Amos 9:13. The desolations mentioned in the tenth ve...
THE DOOM OF THE INCORRIGIBLE Isaiah 27:10. _Yet the defenced city, &c._ I. WHAT A WONDERFUL PICTURE! Proud Babylon so utterly overthrown that on its site cattle feed, and women gather dried sticks fo...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 27:1 THE TRIPLE JUDGMENT ON THE POWERS OF DARKNESS. The crowning judgment of all is now briefly described. "In that day"—the day of God's vengeance—when all his other enemies have b...
Chapter 27: In that day (Isaiah 27:1) Now what day? In the day in which God is bringing the Great Tribulation upon the earth. In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall pun...
Ezekiel 36:4; Isaiah 17:2; Isaiah 17:9; Isaiah 25:2; Isaiah 32:13;...
Yet — Yet before this glorious promise be fulfilled, a dreadful and desolating judgment shall come. The city — Jerusalem and the rest of the defenced cities in the land. The habitation — The most inha...