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AND THEY SHALL LOOK UNTO THE EARTH - They would look upward and find
no relief, and then in despair cast their eyes to the earth to obtain
help there. Yet equally in vain. The whole image is one of in...
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CHAPTER 8
Jehovah's Word Through Isaiah and the Assyrian Announced
1. _The divine instruction and Maher-shalal-hash-baz (Isaiah 8:1)_ 2.
_The Assyrian to come (Isaiah 8:5)_ 3. _The answer of faith (I...
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ISAIAH 8:19 TO ISAIAH 9:1. SOME FRAGMENTARY UTTERANCES. These
fragments are of uncertain date and authorship, corrupt in text and
obscure in sense. The first, Isaiah 8:19 f., is a warning against
necr...
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THE EARTH. the land.
DIMNESS OF ANGUISH. the gloom of anguish.
DRIVEN TO. thrust out into....
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Another scene, representing the utter desolation of the land, and the
miseries of the survivors....
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The last words of the previous verse should be taken along with this
one: AND HE SHALL LOOK UPWARD AND SHALL LOOK TO THE EARTH: AND BEHOLD,
&c. Whether he look to heaven or earth, no ray of hope shall...
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AND THEY SHALL PASS THROUGH IT— The attentive reader must observe,
that the 21st verse is connected with the last clause of the preceding
one; _no light, no morning to them._ The prophet had here deno...
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THE PEDAGOGY Isaiah 8:16-22
TEXT: Isaiah 8:16-22
16
Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
17
And I will wait for Jehovah, that hideth his face from the house of
Jacob, and...
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And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it
shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret
themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward....
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DIMNESS, etc.] RV 'gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness they
shall be driven away.' Note the close connexion with Isaiah 9, where a
brighter future is predicted....
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1. TAKE, etc.] read 'Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it with
the pen of a man, Maher-shalal-hash-baz.' A MAN'S PEN] i.e. such as a
common man would use for writing in large characters that al...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 8
ISAIAH’S SON WILL BE A SIGN TO THE PEOPLE
V1 The *Lord sen...
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Ahaz failed the test. So now his people are prisoners of a powerful
enemy in a foreign country. Because they have left God out of their
situation, their future is completely without hope. It is as if...
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וְ אֶל ־אֶ֖רֶץ יַבִּ֑יט וְ הִנֵּ֨ה
צָרָ֤ה
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CHAPTER VI
KING AND MESSIAH; PEOPLE AND CHURCH
735-732 B.C.
Isaiah 7:8, 9:Isaiah 7:1
THIS section of the book of Isaiah (Chapter s 7-9:7) consists of a
number of separate prophecies uttered during...
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THE PRINCE OF PEACE
Isaiah 8:19-22; Isaiah 9:1-7
When men cease to trust in God and rely on the help of man, they often
turn to necromancy and spirit-rapping. The medium takes the place of
the Mediat...
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In this section we have the account of how the prophet turns from his
more public ministry to devote himself to a small circle of believing
souls. This departure was signalized by his writing on a tab...
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And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and (c) darkness,
dimness of anguish; and [they shall be] driven to darkness.
(c) They will think that heaven and earth and all creatures are bent...
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REFLECTIONS
How truly blessed and profitable it is to watch the Lord's care over
his people! Though in times of general wickedness, the Lord visits a
nation and a kingdom; yet will he take care of his...
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I do not think it needful to detain the Reader with long observations
on this part of the chapter. The advice here given is to the same
amount as the former; the Lord utterly condemns all seeking, but...
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22._And when they shall look to the earth. _The meaning will then be,
that the Jews will be converted to God, because they will be deprived
of every assistance on _the earth_, and will see nothing but...
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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...
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AND THEY SHALL LOOK UNTO THE EARTH,.... As persons in distress,
upwards and downwards, backwards and forwards, on the right hand and
on the left, particularly into the land of Judea; a land that used...
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And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness,
dimness of anguish; and [they shall be] driven to darkness.
Ver. 22. _Trouble and darkness, &c._] A huge heap of words all to one...
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_And they_ The idolatrous and apostate Israelites; _shall pass through
it_ Namely, their own land, into captivity; or, as עבר בה may be
rendered, _shall pass to and fro_, or _wander hither and thither...
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17-22 The prophet foresaw that the Lord would hide his face; but he
would look for his return in favour to them again. Though not
miraculous signs, the children's names were memorials from God, suite...
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THEY SHALL LOOK UNTO THE EARTH; finding no help from heaven, they turn
their eyes downward, looking hither and thither for comfort. TROUBLE
AND DARKNESS. &c.; many words expressing the same thing are...
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Isaiah 8:22 look H5027 (H8686) earth H776 trouble H6869 darkness H2825
gloom H4588 anguish H6695 driven H5080 ...
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CONTENTS: Predictions of the Syrian invasion and of the desolations of
Judah and Israel.
CHARACTERS: God, Israel, Uriah, Zechariah, Maher, Shalal-hash-baz,
Rezin, sons of Remaliah.
CONCLUSION: If a n...
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Isaiah 8:1. _Take thee a great roll._ Lowth reads, a large mirror. The
Chaldaic has _scripturam claram,_ a fair writing, which might be on a
polished plate; but the Versions read as the English.
Isaia...
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_And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry_
UNSANCTIFIED SUFFERING
I. SIN LEADS TO SUFFERING.
II. THERE IS IN SUFFERING NO SANCTIFYING POWER. It may harden men in
iniquity.
III. SUF...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 8:16 The difference between the remnant (vv.
Isaiah 8:16) and the hardened nation (vv. Isaiah 8:19)
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NECROMANCY
Isaiah 8:19. _Seek unto them, &c._
As bearing upon the doctrine of necromancy, an exhaustive discussion
of these verses would involve the following points:
1. Under the instigation of a p...
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EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 8:1
THE SIGN OF MAHER-SHALAL-HASH-BAZ. The sign of Immanuel was recondite.
In its more spiritual sense it appealed to faith in an event far
distant. Even in its literal import, it w...
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So in chapter 8 he continues in this prediction of the Assyrian
invasion.
Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in
it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz (Isaia...
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2 Chronicles 15:5; 2 Chronicles 15:6; Amos 5:18; Isaiah 5:30; Isai
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Earth — Finding no help from heaven, they turn their eyes downward,
looking hither and thither for comfort....