George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 9:16
Headlong. If the blind lead the blind, both fall into the ditch, Matthew xv. 14. (Haydock)
Headlong. If the blind lead the blind, both fall into the ditch, Matthew xv. 14. (Haydock)
FOR THE LEADERS OF THIS PEOPLE ... - Note, Isaiah 3:12. Hebrew ‘They that call this people blessed’ - referring more particularly to the false prophets. THEY THAT ARE LED OF THEM - Hebrew, ‘They that...
CHAPTER 9 The Message of Hope Concerning Israel's Future and the Impending Judgments 1. _The Messiah, His Name, His rule, His kingdom (Isaiah 9:1)_ 2. _Judgment upon Israel (Isaiah 9:8)_ 3. The impen...
ISAIAH 9:8 TO ISAIAH 10:4. YAHWEH SMITES EPHRAIM WITH STROKE AFTER STROKE. It is generally agreed that Isaiah 5:26 formed the closing strophe of this poem (p. 440). The date is probably before the coa...
THE LEADERS: or, flatterers. ERR. stray. THEY THAT ARE LED. they that are flattered. DESTROYED. swallowed up....
Render: AND THE LEADERS OF THIS PEOPLE HAVE BECOME MISLEADERS, AND THEY OF IT THAT ARE LED ARE SWALLOWED UP (or perhaps as Isaiah 3:12 CONFUSED)....
Isaiah 9:8 to Isaiah 10:4 (+ Isaiah 5:25-30) Jehovah's hand stretched out in wrath over His people. An oracle against North Israel The key-note of the prophecy is given in the recurrent refrain...
Second strophe. It describes a "day" of terror (which may be either a battle or a revolution) in which the leaders of the people suddenly perished. What incident is referred to cannot be determined; r...
FOR THE LEADERS, &C.— We have here a defence of the divine judgment taken from the universal corruption of the people; wherein God sets forth the justice of his proceeding, and shews that not from cho...
ISRAEL'S PRESUMPTION TEXT: Isaiah 9:8-17 8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. 9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say...
For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. FOR THE LEADERS ... - see margin, 'they that call them blessed,' and note, ....
(CONTINUED) 8. Jacob.. Israel] Both names here stand for the northern kingdom, as is made clear by what follows in the next v....
DIVINE JUDGMENTS ON THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL This section relates throughout to the kingdom of Israel. It belongs to the same period as the Chapter s immediately preceding, and treats of the ruin which I...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 9 THE FUTURE KING V1 But soon, those who have suffered so gr...
_[Isaiah 9:15]_ וַ יִּֽהְי֛וּ מְאַשְּׁרֵ֥י הָֽ עָם...
CHAPTER III THE VINEYARD OF THE LORD, OR TRUE PATRIOTISM THE CONSCIENCE OF OUR COUNTRY'S SINS 735 B.C. Isaiah 5:1; Isaiah 9:8 - Isaiah 10:4 THE prophecy contained in these Chapter s belongs, as we...
CHAPTER VII THE MESSIAH WE have now reached that point of Isaiah's prophesying at which the Messiah becomes the most conspicuous figure on his horizon. Let us take advantage of it to gather into one...
FALSE LEADERSHIP BRINGS RUIN Isaiah 9:8-17 The grievous sins of the Chosen People are again enumerated. They defied God, Isaiah 8:9-10. They refused to repent; they were blind and deaf and profane, I...
Here we have the message of hope (verses Isa 9:1-7) in the glorious picture of the Coming Deliverer, with the equally glorious record of the results of His Coming. It is one of the greatest Messianic...
Here is the sad cause of the Prophet's lamentation, and a miserable close he makes indeed of the sorrowful subject, at every termination: for the thing explains itself. The Lord corrects in mercy; but...
16._For the rulers of this people are seducers. _(152) Some render it, _they who make thee blessed_, or, _they who call thee blessed_; as if he had said that nothing was more hurtful or destructive to...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9:1-7. But this requires further development; and it is given in a remarkable manner in the next prophecy, comprised in Chapter s 7, 8, 9 to the end...
FOR THE LEADERS OF THIS PEOPLE CAUSE [THEM] TO ERR,.... Or, "who bless this people", as the Septuagint and Arabic versions; and so the Targum, "who praise this people;'' that call them blessed, pron...
For the leaders of this people cause [them] to err; and [they that are] led of them [are] destroyed. Ver. 16. _For the leaders of this people cause them to err._] By their ill counsel and example. _E...
_For_, &c. “We have here a defence of the divine judgment, taken from the universal corruption of the people, wherein God sets forth the justice of his proceedings, and shows, that not from choice, bu...
Jehovah's Hand Stretched our in Judgment...
For the leaders of this people cause them to err, thereby showing themselves utterly unfit for leadership; AND THEY THAT ARE LED OF THEM ARE DESTROYED, literally, "swallowed up," namely, by the error...
THE LEADERS: Or, they that call them blessed...
8-21 Those are ripening apace for ruin, whose hearts are unhumbled under humbling providences. For that which God designs, in smiting us, is, to turn us to himself; and if this point be not gained by...
THE LEADERS; their governors, both civil and ecclesiastical, and especially the latter, their teachers, even the false prophets last mentioned. Or, _they that bless_ or _praise them_, to wit, the fals...
Isaiah 9:16 leaders H833 (H8764) people H5971 err H8582 (H8688) led H833 (H8794) destroyed H1104 ...
THE SECOND CHASTISEMENT. THE REMOVAL OF THE LEADERSHIP (ISAIAH 9:13). Analysis. a Yet the people have not turned to Him who smote them, nor have they sought Yahweh of hosts (Isaiah 9:13). b Therefor...
CONTENTS: A divine child, the only hope of Israel. Vision of the outstretched hand. The unavailing chastisement. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Isaiah, Rezin. CONCLUSION: In the worst of times, God's peopl...
Isaiah 9:1. _The dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation._ Dr. Lightfoot infers from this, that there was much greater affliction in the first days of her vexation. All the Versions differ ve...
_For the leaders of this people cause them to err_ LEADERS MISLEADING Render: “And the leaders of this people have become misleaders. ” (_Prof. J. Skinner, D. D._) LEADERS’ RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 9:1 THE TROUBLES OF ISRAEL SHALL END THROUGH THE BIRTH OF A MARVELOUS CHILD. The section of the prophecy commencing with...
Now as we get into chapter 9, he said, Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afte...
1 Kings 8:55; 1 Kings 8:56; 2 Chronicles 30:27; Hebrews 7:7; Isaiah
The leaders — Their false prophets. Cause — By false doctrines and evil counsels and persuasions. Destroyed — Shall certainly perish....