Isaiah 30:1-14
THE ALLIANCE WITH EGYPT AND THE REBELLIOUS PEOPLE... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ALLIANCE WITH EGYPT AND THE REBELLIOUS PEOPLE... [ Continue Reading ]
Woe to the rebellious children, stubborn, obstinate, refractory people, SAITH THE LORD, THAT TAKE COUNSEL, making plans of their own, BUT NOT OF ME, without consulting Him, AND THAT COVER WITH A COVERING, weave an alliance, form a league, BUT NOT OF MY SPIRIT, not suggested or commanded by the Holy... [ Continue Reading ]
That walk to go down into Egypt and have not asked at My mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, making the king of Egypt their refuge, AND TO TRUST IN THE SHADOW OF EGYPT! They sought protection from a heathen ruler, whereas, Jehovah, the true God, lived in their midst.... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, they would be disappointed and disgraced when he and the desired refuge would fail them, AND THE TRUST IN THE SHADOW OF EGYPT YOUR CONFUSION, for the help and protection which they expected would not be forthcoming.... [ Continue Reading ]
For his princes, the ambassadors sent by Judah, WERE AT ZOAN, having arrived there to confer with Pharaoh, AND HIS AMBASSADORS CAME TO HANES, these two cities being the royal seats of Egypt at that time.... [ Continue Reading ]
They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, that is, disgrace would strike the people of Judah for taking this course in seeking help from Egypt, which could be of no real benefit to them, NOR BE AN HELP NOR PROFIT, BUT A SHAME AND ALSO A REPROACH. That would be the result, the wel... [ Continue Reading ]
The burden of the beasts of the South, of the hippopotamus, as the emblem of Egypt. INTO THE LAND OF TROUBLE AND ANGUISH, through the desert between Palestine and Egypt, with its many disagreeable and dangerous features, FROM WHENCE COME THE YOUNG AND OLD LION, THE VIPER AND FIERY FLYING SERPENT, th... [ Continue Reading ]
For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose, their help will be vapor and emptiness, an unusually strong expression to designate the helplessness of Egypt; THEREFORE HAVE I CRIED CONCERNING THIS, THEIR STRENGTH IS TO SIT STILL. That was the Lord's name for Egypt: Boastfulness that sits st... [ Continue Reading ]
Now go, write it before them in a table, a writing-tablet, such as was in general use in those days, AND NOTE IT IN A BOOK, entering the complete prophecy on a parchment roll for a permanent record, THAT IT MAY BE FOR THE TIME TO COME FOREVER AND EVER, to the most remote future,... [ Continue Reading ]
that this is a rebellious people, v. 1, LYING CHILDREN, unfaithful to Jehovah, with whom they had entered into a covenant as His children, CHILDREN THAT WILL NOT HEAR THE LAW OF THE LORD, setting aside all His revealed instruction;... [ Continue Reading ]
which say to the seers, See not, in an attempt to hinder the servants of the Lord in their teaching of God's Word, AND TO THE PROPHETS, the teachers appointed by God, PROPHESY NOT UNTO US RIGHT THINGS; SPEAK UNTO US SMOOTH THINGS, blandishments, flatteries, prophesy deceits, things that tickle the v... [ Continue Reading ]
Get you out of the way, namely, that prescribed by the command of God, TURN ASIDE OUT OF THE PATH, forsaking the Lord altogether, CAUSE THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL TO CEASE FROM BEFORE US, for they wanted to hear no more of His holiness, that attribute being the one which sinners dread most. So the peopl... [ Continue Reading ]
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, that same God against whom they were rebelling, BECAUSE YE DESPISE THIS WORD, regarding His warning with the deepest aversion, AND TRUST IN OPPRESSION AND PERVERSENESS, and stay thereon, for they placed their trust in acts of violence, by means of which t... [ Continue Reading ]
therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, the bulging out of the wall indicating that it was about to topple over, whose breaking cometh suddenly, at an instant. Thus the ruin of Judah would overtake the nation with great suddenness because of th... [ Continue Reading ]
And He, Jehovah, in His judgment upon the apostate nation, SHALL BREAK IT AS THE BREAKING OF THE POTTERS' VESSEL THAT IS BROKEN IN PIECES, intentionally smashed into fragments; HE SHALL NOT SPARE, SO THAT THERE SHALL NOT BE FOUND IN THE BURSTING OF IT A SHERD TO TAKE FIRE FROM THE HEARTH, a fragment... [ Continue Reading ]
For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest, by turning back to the Lord in true repentance and trusting in Him all alone, SHALL YE BE SAVED, finding deliverance from all the dangers which beset them; IN QUIETNESS AND IN CONFIDENCE, leaving it to the Lord alone to guid... [ Continue Reading ]
Trust in Jehovah Rewarded; Overthrow of the Lord's Enemies... [ Continue Reading ]
But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses, their boast being that they could not wait to meet the enemy on swift horses; THEREFORE SHALL YE FLEE; namely, in trying to escape the victorious onslaught of their adversaries; AND, WE WILL RIDE UPON THE SWIFT, anxious to risk the battle on run-tiers,... [ Continue Reading ]
One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee, overcome by terror, in disgraceful flight, Cf Leviticus 26:8; Deuteronomy 32:30, TILL YE BE LEFT AS A BEACON UPON THE TOP OF A MOUNTAIN, a solitary signal staff, and as an ensign on an hill, only a tiny remnant being... [ Continue Reading ]
And therefore will the Lord wait, the miserable condition of Israel causing Him to turn toward His people once more, THAT HE MAY BE GRACIOUS UNTO YOU, AND THEREFORE WILL HE BE EXALTED, withdrawing Himself, removing, hiding behind the veil of His holiness and majesty, for the time being, as it were,... [ Continue Reading ]
For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem, the Church of God being preserved in the midst of all dangers and enemies; THOU SHALT WEEP NO MORE, the spiritual Israel, the people of the Lord, should not give way to excessive mourning; HE, Jehovah, WILL BE VERY GRACIOUS UNTO THEE AT THE VOICE OF T... [ Continue Reading ]
And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, of distress, AND THE WATER OF AFFLICTION, such as His merciful chastisement often lays upon His children, Romans 8:18, YET SHALL NOT THY TEACHERS BE REMOVED INTO A CORNER ANY MORE, BUT THINE EYES SHALL SEE THY TEACHERS, who would no longer find it... [ Continue Reading ]
and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, the guiding voice of God, through His servants, SAYING, THIS IS THE WAY, WALK YE IN IT, this being a word of warning, WHEN YE TURN TO THE RIGHT HAND, AND WHEN YE TURN TO THE LEFT, thus keeping them in the paths of righteousness.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye shall defile also, as a result of the good teaching of the prophets, THE COVERING OF THY GRAVEN IMAGES OF SILVER, the plating used to cover the body of their images, AND THE ORNAMENT OF THY MOLTEN IMAGES OF GOLD; THOU SHALT CAST THEM AWAY, scattering them, AS A MENSTRUOUS CLOTH, as something filt... [ Continue Reading ]
Then, after such evidences of repentance on the part of the people, SHALL HE GIVE THE RAIN OF THY SEED, so that the grain which had been sown would have a good stand, THAT THOU SHALT SOW THE GROUND WITHAL; AND BREAD OF THE INCREASE OF THE EARTH, of everything that the earth produces for the food of... [ Continue Reading ]
The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground, that is, which plow and till the farmland, SHALL EAT CLEAN PROVENDER, a mash of grain and chopped herbs, made more palatable by the addition of salt, the superior quality of the straw used being emphasized by the words, WHICH HATH BEEN WINNO... [ Continue Reading ]
And there shall be upon every high mountain and upon every high hill, barren as they otherwise were, RIVERS AND STREAMS OF WATERS IN THE DAY OF THE GREAT SLAUGHTER, when the punishment of God will strike His enemies, WHEN THE TOWERS FALL, namely, those of all fortifications of men erected over again... [ Continue Reading ]
Moreover, the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, equal to it in brightness, AND THE LIGHT OF THE SUN SHALL BE SEVENFOLD, AS THE LIGHT OF SEVEN DAYS, IN THE DAY, the time to which the entire Old Testament looked forward, THAT THE LORD BINDETH UP THE BREACH OF HIS PEOPLE, the calamity... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, the name of the Lord, revealing His holy and righteous nature and His almighty majesty for the purpose of judgment, COMETH FROM FAR, like an immense storm or a devastating prairie fire arising above the horizon, BURNING WITH HIS ANGER, AND THE BURDEN THEREOF IS HEAVY, settling down like a he... [ Continue Reading ]
and His breath, as an overflowing stream, with all the impetous force of a spring fresher, SHALL REACH TO THE MIDST OF THE NECK, so that only his head extends above the division of waters, TO SIFT THE NATIONS WITH THE SIEVE OF VANITY, the result of the Lord's sifting being nothingness, destruction;... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept, the solemn festal hymn of the Passover Festival, AND GLADNESS OF HEART, AS WHEN ONE GOETH WITH A PIPE TO COME INTO THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD, TO THE MIGHTY ONE OF ISRAEL. In other words, Israel, the Church of God, is in the midst of... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord shall cause His glorious voice, raised in a majestic battle-cry, TO BE HEARD AND SHALL SHOW THE LIGHTING DOWN OF HIS ARM, as it descends upon the scoffers, WITH THE INDIGNATION OF HIS ANGER AND WITH THE FLAME OF A DEVOURING FIRE, WITH SCATTERING, as of that accompanying a cloudburst, AN... [ Continue Reading ]
For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod, this destruction of the world-power being a type of the punishment which strikes all the enemies of the Church of God.... [ Continue Reading ]
And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, where the avenging rod, as decreed by God, will strike, WHICH THE LORD SHALL LAY UPON HIM, in punishing and destroying the world-power, IT SHALL BE WITH TABRETS AND HARPS, with timbrels and zithers, that is, while the people of God rejoice over... [ Continue Reading ]
For Tophet is ordained of old, a dreadful altar being prepared for the slaughter; YEA, FOR THE KING IT IS PREPARED, for the ruler of the world power; HE, Jehovah, HATH MADE IT DEEP AND LARGE, so that there is room for many victims upon the place of slaughter; THE PILE THEREOF IS FIRE AND MUCH WOOD,... [ Continue Reading ]