Brother. Civil wars shall rage, 4 Kings xv. Josephus (Jewish Wars vii.) perhaps alluded to this passage, when he said, that an ancient prophecy announced ruin to the Jews, when they should turn their arms against each other. (Calmet)
THROUGH THE WRATH - By the anger, or indignation. This spreading desolation is the proof of his anger. IS THE LAND DARKENED - The word used here - עתם _‛__âtham_ - occurs nowhere else. According to G...
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...
OF. for. Genitive of Relation (App-17.)...
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...
Third strophe. As in ch. Isaiah 3:1-7, the removal of the pillars of the state is followed by wild confusion and civil war. The state of things alluded to can be partly realised from passages in the b...
_darkened_ Another translation is "made to glow"; the word is not found elsewhere. NO MAN SPARING HIS BROTHER. The clause shews that the fire is an emblem of ungovernable party strife. The sense woul...
FOR WICKEDNESS, &C.— _For wickedness burneth as a fire,_ (_and it shall devour the briers and thorns_) _and it burns up the thickets of the forest, and they mount up curled, like,_ &c. We have here in...
ISRAEL'S PERVERSITY TEXT: Isaiah 9:18-21 18 For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns; yea it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column o...
Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother. THROUGH THE WRATH OF THE LORD OF HOSTS IS THE LAND DARK...
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...
(CONTINUED) 8. Jacob.. Israel] Both names here stand for the northern kingdom, as is made clear by what follows in the next v....
DARKENED] RV 'burnt up.'...
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...
THROUGH THE WRATH OF THE LORD OF HOSTS IS THE LAND DARKENED... — The vision of darkness and famine which had come before the prophet’s eyes in Isaiah 8:21 appears once again, and here, as there, it is...
_[Isaiah 9:18]_ בְּ עֶבְרַ֛ת יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֹ֖ות נֶעְתַּ֣ם...
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...
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...
SOCIAL INJUSTICE CONDEMNED Isaiah 9:18-21; Isaiah 10:1-4 The terrible indictment of the preceding paragraphs is continued here. Notice the awful monotony of the refrain, Isaiah 9:12; Isaiah 9:17; Is...
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...
Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall (q) spare his brother. (q) Though there was no foreign enemy, yet they will...
If the Reader will compare this chapter in the several parts of it, with Leviticus 26:1, he will find a solemn explanation given of what is here said, and mark the progression of divine visitations in...
19._Through the anger of the _Lord_of hosts is the land darkened. _After having shown that the cause of all our evils proceeds from ourselves, and that therefore the blame of it should be laid upon us...
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...
THROUGH THE WRATH OF THE LORD OF HOSTS IS THE LAND DARKENED,.... Brought into great distress and affliction; sore judgments and calamities being upon it; for not darkness in a natural, but in a figura...
Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother. Ver. 19. _Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the l...
Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, burned out to ashes, utterly destroyed, AND THE PEOPLE SHALL BE AS THE FUEL OF THE FIRE, to be devoured without mercy; NO MAN SHALL SPARE H...
Jehovah's Hand Stretched our in Judgment...
FUEL: _ Heb._ meat...
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...
DARKENED, either with the smoke last mentioned, or with misery. Or, _burnt up_, as the LXX., Chaldee, and Arabic interpreters render it. NO MAN SHALL SPARE HIS BROTHER; they shall destroy one another,...
Isaiah 9:19 wrath H5678 LORD H3068 hosts H6635 land H776 up H6272 (H8738) people H5971 fuel H3980 fire...
THE THIRD CHASTISEMENT. THE DISINTEGRATION OF THEIR SOCIETY (ISAIAH 9:18). Analysis. a For wickedness burns like a fire, it devours the thorns and the thistles, yes, it kindles in the thickets of th...
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 wickedness burneth as the fire_ WICKEDNESS AS FIRE Wickedness, _i._., the constant willing of evil, is a fire which man kindles in himself. And when the grace of God, which stifles and checks th...
THE DESTRUCTIVENESS OF SIN Isaiah 9:18. _For wickedness burneth as the fire, &c._ One of the grandest and most fearful scenes in nature is a forest on fire. This is the figure Isaiah employs to descr...
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...
2 Peter 2:4; Acts 2:20; Amos 5:18; Ezekiel 9:5; Isaiah 13:18;...