For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light, the figure of utter darkness pointing to the severity of the punishment; the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, ceasing to shine as soon as it rises, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. All this, as in Joel 3:4 and Amos 5:8, indicates that all hope would be vain.
Verse Isaiah 13:10. _FOR THE STARS OF HEAVEN_ - "Yea, the stars of heaven"] The Hebrew poets, to express happiness, prosperity, the instauration and advancement of states, kingdoms, and potentates, m...
FOR THE STARS OF HEAVEN - This verse cannot be understood literally, but is a metaphorical representation of the calamities that were coming upon Babylon The meaning of the figure evidently is, that t...
2. THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS AND THE FUTURE DAY OF JEHOVAH (13-27) CHAPTER 13 The Burden of Babylon 1. _Jehovah's call to the judgment of Babylon (Isaiah 13:1)_ 2. _The day of Jehovah: When Babylo...
ISAIAH 13:1 TO ISAIAH 14:23. THE UTTER RUIN OF BABYLON AND TRIUMPHAL ODE OVER HER MONARCH'S DEATH. Historical conditions are here presupposed entirely different from those of Isaiah's time. The subjec...
SHALL NOT GIVE THEIR LIGHT. Quoted in Matthew 24:29. Shall not celebrate [Thee]. Compare Psalms 19:1; Psalms 145:10. Hebrew. _halel._ Occurs twice in "former" portion (here and in...
The middle division of the prophecy enlarges on the nature, purpose and effects of this day of Jehovah....
"The day of the Lord is darkness, and not light," Amos 5:18. _the constellations thereof_ The Heb. word (_kěsîl_) is used in the singular in Amos 5:8; Job 9:9; Job 38:31, o
BEHOLD, THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH, &C.— The prophet begins here to describe the calamity itself coming upon the Babylonians, but in figures, according to his manner, grand, and adapted to raise a ter...
b. PURPOSE OF JUDGMENT TEXT: Isaiah 13:9-16 9 Behold the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 10...
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. THE STARS ... SHALL...
The day of Jehovah is accompanied by signs in the heavens as in Joel 2:10; Joel 2:31; Joel 3:15; Zephaniah 1:14;...
1. BURDEN] The corresponding verb means 'to lift up' (_a_) a load, (_b_) the voice (cp. Isaiah 3:7; Isaiah 42:2; Isaiah 42:11), used of Balaam lifting up his voice in oracular utterance ...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 13 The next major division of the Book of Isaiah is Chapter s 13 to...
Isaiah uses pictures in words to describe how total is the effect of God’s action. The darkness will be extraordinary because no light whatever reaches the world from the stars. Or from the sun, or fr...
THE CONSTELLATIONS THEREOF. — The noun in the singular (_kesîl,_ foolhardy, or impious) is translated as Orion in Job 9:9; Amos 5:8. It is significant, as pointing to some widely-diffused legend, that...
כִּֽי ־כֹוכְבֵ֤י הַ שָּׁמַ֨יִם֙ וּ כְסִ֣ילֵיהֶ֔ם...
BOOK 5 PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary with that - we...
We now commence the second circle of the first division of our book, in which are contained Isaiah's prophecies concerning the nations and the world. The first describes the doom of Babylon. Whereas t...
For the (h) stars of heaven and its constellations shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. (h) They who are overcome...
_Stars. This is not to be taken literally, but only implies that the people shall be in as much consternation (Calmet) as if the world were at an end, ver. 13. (Haydock) (Grotius) (Matthew xxiv. 27.,...
In the figurative language of prophecy, the Lord describes the destruction of Babylon. The army that shall come against Babylon, the Lord calls his sanctified ones, and his mighty ones. By sanctified,...
10._For the stars of heaven. _In order to strike our minds with a stronger and more distressing fear of the judgment of God, the prophets are accustomed to add to their threatenings extravagant modes...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14. With chapter 12 one division of the whole book closes. That which commences with chapter 13 continues to the end of chapter 27, which describes th...
FOR THE STARS OF HEAVEN,.... This and what follows are to be understood, not literally, but figuratively, as expressive of the dismalness and gloominess of the dispensation, of the horror and terror o...
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. Ver. 10. _For the sta...
_Behold the day cruel both with wrath and fierce anger_ Dr. Waterland renders the clause, _fierceness, wrath, and hot anger:_ divers words are heaped together, to signify the extremity of the divine i...
6-18 We have here the terrible desolation of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. Those who in the day of their peace were proud, and haughty, and terrible, are quite dispirited when trouble comes. The...
THE CONSTELLATIONS; which consist of many stars, and therefore give a greater light. THE SUN SHALL BE DARKENED; either, 1. Properly and really, by an eclipse; for prodigies in heaven do sometimes go...
Isaiah 13:10 stars H3556 heaven H8064 constellations H3685 give H1984 (H8686) light H216 sun H8121 darkened H2821 ...
THE APOCALYPTIC DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON (ISAIAH 13:6). The forces having been gathered by Yahweh on the remoteness of the bare mountain, they are to be unleashed in ‘the Day of Yahweh', and it will se...
CONTENTS: Prophecy concerning last days, when punishment will be visited upon the nations, and Israel shall pass through the Great Tribulation. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Men have their da...
In the thirteen Chapter s which follow, the prophet, like a watchman, raises his voice, and denounces woes against all the surrounding nations, and finally against his own country. Isaiah 13:1. _The b...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 13:1 God’s Judgment and Grace for the World: “We Have a Strong City.” Isaiah stresses God’s complete power over all the nations. God rules history to achieve his goals....
EXPOSITION THE BURDEN OF BABYLON. The series of prophecies which commences with this chapter and continues to the close of Isaiah 23:1; is connected together by the word _massa_, burden. It has been a...
Now as we move into chapter 13 and he speaks of the burden of Babylon which Isaiah saw, you remember that we mentioned when we started the prophecy of Isaiah that in many of the prophecies, there was...
Amos 8:10; Amos 8:9; Ezekiel 32:7; Ezekiel 32:8; Isaiah 24:21;...
Constellations — Which consist of many stars, and therefore give a greater sight. Darkened — All things shall look darkly and dismally; men shall have no comfort or hope. Going forth — As soon as he r...