George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 31:7
Idols. Their worship was afterwards more severely prohibited, chap. xxx. 21.
Idols. Their worship was afterwards more severely prohibited, chap. xxx. 21.
Verse Isaiah 31:7. _WHICH YOUR OWN HANDS HAVE MADE UNTO YOU FOR A SIN_ - "The sin, which their own hands have made."] The construction of the word חטא _chet, sin_, in this place is not easy. The _Sep...
FOR IN THAT DAY - That is, in the invasion of Sennacherib, and the events that shalt be consequent thereon. EVERY MAN SHALL CAST AWAY HIS IDOLS - (see the note at Isaiah 30:22; compare the note at Is...
CHAPTER 31 The Fifth Woe Against Them that Go Down to Egypt 1. _The Egyptian Alliance condemned again (Isaiah 31:1)_ 2. _Jehovah promises to deliver Jerusalem (Isaiah 31:4) _ All looks forward toward...
ISAIAH 31. THE FOLLY OF RELIANCE ON EGYPT. JERUSALEM WILL BE PROTECTED, AND ASSYRIA OVERTHROWN. vv. Isaiah 31:6 f. seems to be an interpolation. Isaiah 31:4 f_._ creates serious difficulties. Isaiah 3...
EVERY MAN. Hebrew. _'Ish_. App-14. IDOLS. nothings....
Comp. Isaiah 30:22; Isaiah 17:8; Isaiah 2:8 and esp. Isaiah 2:20....
TURN YE UNTO HIM— This address of the prophet to the Jews is both _monitory_ of the duty, without which this divine benefit of protection and deliverance would not be conferred, and _prophetical,_ whe...
3. SWORD TEXT: Isaiah 31:1-9 1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they lo...
For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin. IN THAT DAY EVERY MAN SHALL CAST AWAY HIS IDOLS - in the day...
31:7 you. (b-26) Or, 'which your own hands have made unto you to sin.'...
1-5. Judah should trust not in Egypt, but in Jehovah. 6-9. The wonderful deliverance from the Assyrian....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD DEFENDS *JERUSALEM ISAIAH CHAPTER S 31 TO 39 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 31 NUMBERS ARE NOT EVERYTHING V1 *Woe to people who are appealing to Egypt for help!...
IN THAT DAY EVERY MAN SHALL CAST AWAY... — The act is the same as that of Isaiah 2:20, but with a marked difference of motive: there it springs from the terror of despair, here from the repentance whi...
כִּ֚י בַּ † יֹּ֣ום הַ ה֔וּא יִמְאָס֗וּן...
CHAPTER XIV THREE TRUTHS ABOUT GOD ABOUT 702 B.C. Isaiah 31:1 CHAPTER 31, which forms an appendage to Chapter s 29 and 30, can scarcely be reckoned among the more important prophecies of Isaiah. It...
A NOBLER FUTURE FOR THE NATION Isaiah 31:1-9; Isaiah 32:1-8 Isaiah continues to denounce the contemplated alliance with Egypt. His compatriots put their trust in horses and chariots, and refused the...
The prophet again denounces the alliance with Egypt. He declares that the sin of it is a false trust consequent on the chosen people tuning their back on Jehovah. The folly of it is manifest in the fa...
For in that day every man shall (g) cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made to you [for] a sin. (g) By these fruits your repentance will be known, as in ...
It is blessed to observe how the Lord's precepts are frequently accompanied with promises; and his commands to his people to return to him, with giving the ability to return. See a beautiful illustrat...
7._For in that day. _He continues the subject which he began in the former verse. Yet there is this difference, that in the former verse he exhorted to repentance, but now he points out the fruits of...
The folly of trusting in an arm of flesh is again pointed out, but only while dwelling on the true means of deliverance. Jehovah at Jerusalem would be in the midst of the nations as a lion among the s...
FOR IN THAT DAY,.... When deliverance shall be wrought; when men shall be convinced of the vanity and insufficiency of their idols to help them, and of their sin in worshipping them; when they shall b...
For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you [for] a sin. Ver. 7. _For in that day,_] _scil., _ Of your effectual conv...
_Turn ye unto him_, &c. Let the consideration of this gracious promise engage you to repent of all your sins, and among the rest, of your carnal policies in seeking and trusting to Egypt for help, and...
JEHOVAH PROTECTS THOSE WHO FEAR HIM...
For in that day, when the Lord visits His people, especially with the dawning of the Messianic era, EVERY MAN SHALL CAST AWAY HIS IDOLS OF SILVER AND HIS IDOLS OF GOLD, renouncing idolatry in every fo...
HIS IDOLS OF GOLD: _ Heb._ the idols of his gold...
6-9 They have been backsliding children, yet children; let them return, and their backslidings shall be healed, though they have sunk deep into misery, and cannot easily recover. Many make an idol of...
For when the Assyrian shall invade your land, you shall find the vanity of those idols to which you have trusted; and therefore shall cast them away with indignation, and be forced to seek to me for h...
Isaiah 31:7 day H3117 man H376 away H3988 (H8799) idols H457 silver H3701 idols H457 sin H2399 hands...
IN THE END IT IS YAHWEH WHO WILL DELIVER HIS PEOPLE (ISAIAH 31:4). Isaiah points out that God is not afraid of the rantings of Assyria. Rather He will come to act on behalf of His people as He did at...
CONTENTS: Judah again warned against the Egyptian alliance. Jehovah's defense of Jerusalem. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: It is gross absurdity to forsake the Rock of Ages for broken reeds. If men wi...
Isaiah 31:1. _Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help._ This was a sin in open defiance of the law. Deuteronomy 28:68. It was a great revolt of unbelief, because it distrusted the Lord, and all his...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 31:6 TURN TO HIM. See Isaiah 30:15. DEEPLY REVOLTED. Judah has to be told that their spiritual unfaithfulness
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 31:1 A FURTHER WARNING AGAINST SEEKING THE ALLIANCE OF EGYPT. This prophecy seems to be quite independent of the last (Isaiah 30:
Shall we turn in our Bibles to Isaiah 31:1-9. Now as a backdrop to these scriptures in Isaiah 31:1-9 is the impending invasion of Assyria. Assyria is the world-conquering power at the moment. Assyria...
1 Kings 12:28; Deuteronomy 7:25; Ezekiel 36:25; Hosea 14:8; Hosea 8: