George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 37:29
Lips, and treat thee like some ungovernable beast. (Haydock) (Ezechiel xxix. 4., and xxxviii. 4.) (Calmet)
Lips, and treat thee like some ungovernable beast. (Haydock) (Ezechiel xxix. 4., and xxxviii. 4.) (Calmet)
Verse Isaiah 37:29. _WILL I PUT MY HOOK IN THY NOSE_] Et fraenum meum: _Jonathan_ vocem מתג _metheg_, interpretatus est זמם _zemam_, i.e., annulum, sive uncum, eumque ferreum, quem infigunt naribus c...
BECAUSE THY RAGE AND THY TUMULT - Or rather, thy pride, thy insolence, thy vain boasting. THEREFORE WILL I PUT MY HOOK IN THY NOSE - This is a most striking expression, denoting the complete control w...
CHAPTER 37 Hezekiah in the House of the Lord and Sennacherib's Second Attempt 1. _Hezekiah's humiliation and Isaiah sent for (Isaiah 37:1)_ 2. _The message from the prophet (Isaiah 37:6)_ 3. Rabshake...
ISAIAH 36-39. This section has been extracted from 2 Kings 18:13 to 2 Kings 20:19, and the Song of Hezekiah has been added. For an exposition see the notes on 2 K.; here we have simply to deal with th...
TUMULT. arrogance. MY HOOK, &C. Assyrian sculptures represent captives thus led. Jehovah would treat them as they treated others. TURN THEE BACK. See Hezekiah's reference to this (Psalms 129:4; Psal...
For _tumult_render with R.V. marg. CARELESS EASE. "Raging" and "careless ease" form a contrast, like "rising up" and "sitting down" in the previous verse. _therefore will I put my hook in thy nose_ Cf...
The answer to the prayer comes in the form of a message from Isaiah. The message as here given really consists of two distinct oracles: (1) a poem, on the pride and the approaching humiliation of Senn...
All the acts of the Assyrian are under the strict surveillance of Jehovah, who will shew His power over him by dragging him back, like a wild beast, to his place. If the emendation of Wellhausen (see...
The poem on Sennacherib is in substance a Taunt-song; but in form an elegy, written in the measure characteristic of the _qînâh_. The first two lines (Isaiah 37:22) read: SHE HATH DESPISED THEE, HAT...
THEREFORE WILL I PUT MY HOOK, &C.— The meaning of the passage is plain, that God would so dispose matters by his providence, as to compel the Assyrian to return back with his army, circumscribing and...
4. THE PRONOUNCEMENT TEXT: Isaiah 37:21-35 21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king...
Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest....
MY HOOK] Assyrian sculptures represent both captives and beasts as led in this way. Jehovah will treat the Assyrian as His captive, or as a beast which must be tamed and restrained....
7. SEND.. HIM] RV 'put a spirit in him.'...
It was the custom to lead a camel and a bull (male partner of cow) by a hook (piece of metal) in the nose. • Sennacherib’s past and present actions are all under God’s control. So also is Sennacherib...
The purpose of these verses is to make Hezekiah’s trust in God even stronger. • The *Lord seems to be speaking to Sennacherib. But the words are in fact for Hezekiah to hear. The *Lord is in total co...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD DEFENDS *JERUSALEM ISAIAH CHAPTER S 31 TO 39 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 37 HEZEKIAH ASKS ISAIAH FOR ADVICE V1 When king Hezekiah heard the report from his th...
THEREFORE WILL I PUT MY HOOK IN THY NOSE... — The Assyrian sculptures represent both beasts and men as dragged in this way (Ezekiel 38:4). (Comp. the same image in Isaiah 30:28.)...
יַ֚עַן הִתְרַגֶּזְךָ֣ אֵלַ֔י וְ שַׁאֲנַנְךָ֖ עָלָ֣ה...
CHAPTER XXVI HAD ISAIAH A GOSPEL FOR THE INDIVIDUAL? THE two narratives, in which Isaiah's career culminates-that of the Deliverance of Jerusalem Isaiah 36:1; Isaiah 37:1 and that of the Recovery of...
Penitently, went Hezekiah immediately into the house of the Lord, while he sent messengers to Isaiah. The prophet sent them back with words of encouragement, declaring that God would deliver them. In...
Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into my ears, therefore I will put my (u) hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou (x) ca...
29._Because thou wast angry against me. _The more furiously wicked men rise up against God, and the more outrageous the violence by which they are actuated, so much the more is he wont eventually to s...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 36, 37, 38, AND 39. Chapter s 36-39 relate the history of the invasion of Sennacherib, its result, and the sickness unto death of Hezekiah, which preceded it:...
BECAUSE THY RAGE AGAINST ME, AND THY TUMULT IS COME UP INTO MINE EARS,..... The rage which Sennacherib expressed both by Rabshakeh, and in his letter against Hezekiah and his people, is taken by the L...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Isaiah 37:29 rage H7264 (H8692) tumult H7600 up H5927 (H8804) ears H241 put H7760 (H8804) hook...
YAHWEH'S REPLY. THE KING OF ASSYRIA IS BUT YAHWEH'S TOOL AND WILL BE DEALT WITH ACCORDINGLY (ISAIAH 37:26). Yahweh's reply to Sennacherib is to point out what He has accomplished in the past. He want...
YAHWEH'S REPLY THROUGH ISAIAH (ISAIAH 37:21). Isaiah 37:21 ‘Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, In lieu of the fact that you have prayed to me a...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's message to the people by Isaiah. Sennacherib's message to Hezekiah. Hezekiah's prayer and Jehovah's answer. Destruction of Assyrians. CHARACTERS: God, Hezekiah, Eliakim, Shebna, I...
Isaiah 37:3. _This is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy._ What moral idea can we form of a conqueror? A man hailed, adored, and applauded by the world. History is full of his fame, and...
_And Hezekiah received the letter. .. and read it. .. and spread it before the Lord_ HEZEKIAH’S PRAYER AND DELIVERANCE In the struggles, defeats, and final triumph of the ancient people of God in the...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 37:26 I DETERMINED IT LONG AGO. God does not simply respond to events as they happen; those events merely reveal his own long-intended purpose (see...
EXPOSITION This chapter is the sequel of the preceding, and is so closely connected with it that the two really constitute but one narrative. Isaiah 37:22 of Isaiah 36:1. is more closely connected wit...
And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes (Isaiah 37:1), Yeah, man, it is bad. Rip, you know. and he covered himself with sackcloth (Isaiah 37:1), Now sackcloth was...
2 Kings 19:27; 2 Kings 19:28; Acts 22:22; Acts 9:4; Amos 4:2;...