George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 28:12
Hear. To leave off their wicked practices, and cruelty. The Jews would not understand: therefore Christ spoke to them in parables, chap. vi. 9., and Matthew xiii. 14., &c.
Hear. To leave off their wicked practices, and cruelty. The Jews would not understand: therefore Christ spoke to them in parables, chap. vi. 9., and Matthew xiii. 14., &c.
Verse Isaiah 28:12. _THIS_ IS _THE REST__ _- "This is the true rest"] The sense of this verse is: God had warned them by his prophets that their safety and security, their deliverance from their pres...
TO WHOM HE SAID - To whom God had said; that is, to the Jews. He had taught them the way of rest through the prophets, but they had refused to learn. THIS IS THE REST - That is, this is the true way...
3. THE SIX WOES OF THE PROPHET, JUDGMENT RUINS AND RESTORATION GLORIES TO COME (28-35) CHAPTER 28 The First Woe and the Message of Assurance 1. _Ephraim addressed (Isaiah 28:1)_ 2. _Jerusalem equall...
JERUSALEM ALSO IS THREATENED WITH DESTRUCTION. But Jerusalem like Ephraim reels with intoxication, the priests and prophets especially. The prophet is not steady in his vision, the priest when pronoun...
TO WHOM HE SAID: or, He (Jehovah) Who said to them: i.e. by His prophets (Isaiah 7:4; Isaiah 8:6; Isaiah 30:15)....
The occasion of this remarkable encounter was probably a feast held to celebrate the renunciation of allegiance to Assyria. Isaiah has surprised the drunkards over their cups and administered some suc...
_To whom he said_ Rather: HE WHO SAID TO THEM. The verse reproduces the tenor and aim of all Isaiah's teaching (cf. Isaiah 28:16; ch. Isaiah 30:15). He had sought to point out the true way of rest for...
FOR WITH STAMMERING LIPS, &C.— Instead of _refreshing,_ in Isaiah 28:12 we may read, _happy place;_ and the 13th may be rendered, _But the word of the Lord shall be unto them,—that they may go,_ &c. T...
V. EMANCIPATION NOT FROM EGYPT Chapter S 28 - 35 A. FOUNDATION THAT IS FIRM, Chapter S 28-29 1. STUPIDITY TEXT: Isaiah 28:1-13 1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fa...
In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, -The prophet now turns to Judah, a gracious promise to the remnant ("residue...
THIS IS THE REST, etc.] cp. Isaiah 30:15. Jehovah through His prophet had pointed out the way of peace and recovery for the nation that already under Ahaz had suffered much through foreign alliance. B...
This chapter must be assigned (Isaiah 28:1) to a date prior to the capture of Samaria by the Assyrians (722 b.c.) and fall of the northern kingdom. 1-6. Samaria's luxury and self-indulgence pave the...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 28 The next section of the Book of Isaiah is from Chapter 28 to Chapter 33. These Cha...
The leaders have not been responsible. They have disappointed their nation. And the result will be that they hear even more strange sounds. An enemy that speaks a strange language will carry off many...
TO WHOM HE SAID, THIS IS THE REST... — The prophet vindicates himself against the charge of being a repeater of wearisome messages of rebuke. Rather had he pointed the way to a time of repentance, and...
אֲשֶׁ֣ר ׀ אָמַ֣ר אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם זֹ֤את הַ מְּנוּחָה֙...
BOOK 3 PROPHECIES FROM THE ACCESSION OF HEZEKIAH TO THE DEATH OF SARGON 727-705 B.C. THE prophecies with which we have been engaged (Chapter s 2-10:4) fall either before or during the great Assyrian...
THE DECAY OF AN INTEMPERATE PEOPLE Isaiah 28:1-13 A new series of prophecies begins here and extends to Isaiah 32:20. Samaria is described as a faded crown or garland on the nation's head because it...
Here begins the third and last circle of the first division of the book. It consists of a series of prophecies concerning the chosen people and the world. In this chapter we have a graphic revelation...
To whom (l) he said, (m) This [is] the rest [with which] ye may (n) cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the refreshing: yet they would not hear. (l) That is, the prophet, whom God would send. (m)...
This is a blessed verse, which comes in like some precious cordial to a dying man, who had been fainting before under afflictions all around. But, Reader! who is the person here spoken of, to whom he...
12._For he said to them. _Some explain it by circumlocution in this manner: “If one should say to them, This is the rest, they refuse to hear.” But this is a feeble exposition, and does not connect th...
Chapter 28 sets before us the first elements of these final scenes in the history of this wonderful people. The scourge comes from the north. Ephraim is invaded as by an overflowing torrent, by a temp...
TO WHOM HE SAID,.... Either the Lord himself, or the prophet Isaiah; or rather the Lord by him, and other prophets; so the Targum, "to whom the prophets said;'' that is, the true prophets of the Lor...
To whom he said, This [is] the rest [wherewith] ye may cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the refreshing: yet they would not hear. Ver. 12. _To whom he said, This is the rest,_] _i.e., _ The read...
_For_ Or, rather, _therefore_, as the particle כי is often used. For the prophet here evidently intends to express the punishment of their dulness. _With stammering lips, and another tongue_ By people...
To whom He said, or, "He who said to them," THIS IS THE REST WHEREWITH YE MAY CAUSE THE WEARY TO REST, for that is what the Lord in His Word offers to weary souls longing for salvation; AND THIS IS TH...
CONCERNING SAMARIA AND JERUSALEM. Chapter s 28 to 33 in the Book of Isaiah contain a cycle of prophecies and proclamations concerning the relation of Judah to Assyria in the time of King Hezekiah. Aha...
5-15 The prophet next turns to Judah, whom he calls the residue of his people. Happy are those alone, who glory in the Lord of hosts himself. Hence his people get wisdom and strength for every servic...
TO WHOM HE SAID, to which people the Lord, by his minister, said, THIS, this doctrine or precept, as it is expressed, ISAIAH 28:9,10, or the word of the Lord, as it follows, ISAIAH 28:13, is the rest;...
Isaiah 28:12 said H559 (H8804) rest H4496 weary H5889 rest H5117 (H8685) refreshing H4774 would H14 ...
HIS OPPONENT MOCK ISAIAH'S TEACHING (ISAIAH 28:9). Isaiah's opponents mock him because all that he does is proclaim a repetitive message. In their view that is to treat them like children. But his rep...
CONTENTS: Woe of Ephriam due to drunkenness. Prediction of Assyrian captivity of Ephriam. Ephriam's fate a warning to Judah. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The glorious beauty and the plenty of the lan...
Isaiah 28:1. _The crown of pride._ Sebaste, the ancient Samaria, is situated on a long mount of an oval figure, having first a fruitful valley, and then a circle of hills running round about it. _Maun...
_This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest_ REST IN CHRIST That these words are to be interpreted as relating to Jesus Christ is manifest both from the preceding and subsequent conte...
_Whom shall He teach knowledge?_ THE SCOFFING DRUNKARDS They scoff at the prophet, that intolerable moralist. They are full-grown and free; he need not teach them knowledge Isaiah 11:9), and explain...
REJECTERS OF THE GOSPEL ADMONISHED Isaiah 28:12. _To whom He said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear_. Isaiah was one of t...
SECTION VII. RENEWED DENUNCIATIONS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH (CH. 28-31.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 28:1 A WARNING TO SAMARIA. The prophet has now east his eagle glance
Chapter 28. Now the prophet turns to the local present issues. He is now... he's gone off down the road to the end of things. Now he comes back and he begins to speak of the Northern Kingdom, the majo...
2 Chronicles 14:11; 2 Chronicles 16:8; 2 Chronicles 16:9; Hebrews 12:25;...
This — This doctrine. The rest — The only way, in which you will find rest....