And he (impersonal subject), that is, every man, shall snatch on the right hand and be hungry, like a beast snapping in every direction; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied; they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm, the members of his own family and tribe:
Verse Isaiah 9:20. _THE FLESH OF HIS OWN ARM_ - "The flesh of his neighbour"] "Του βραχιονος του αδελφου αυτου, the _Septuagint Alexand. Duplex_ _versio, quarum altera legit_ רעו reo, quae vox extat,...
AND HE SHALL SNATCH - Hebrew, ‘He shall cut off.’ Many have supposed that this refers to a state of famine; but others regard it as descriptive of a state of faction extending throughout the whole com...
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...
EAT. NOT BE SATISFIED. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:26)....
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...
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...
AND ONE SNATCHED ON THE RIGHT HAND AND WAS HUNGRY (still) AND DEVOURED ON THE LEFT HAND AND THEY WERE NOT SATISFIED, &c. _every man the flesh of his own arm_ The image would be that of men maddened w...
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...
And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm: AND HE SHALL SNATCH ON T...
HE SHALL] RV 'one shall': not to be taken literally as indicating the approach of famine, but a figurative prophecy of the ruin of the nation through anarchy and civil strife, as is made clear by the...
(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...
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 9:19]_ וַ יִּגְזֹ֤ר עַל ־יָמִין֙ וְ...
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...
And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the (r) flesh of his own arm: (r) Their greediness w...
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...
20._Every one shall snatch on the right hand. _It is equivalent to a phrase in common use, _prendre et ravir a toutes mains _, _to take and seize at all hands_. This mode of expression denotes either...
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...
AND HE SHALL SNATCH ON THE RIGHT HAND, AND BE HUNGRY,.... Either with his hand, and rob and plunder all within his reach; or, with his teeth, as cannibals, or beasts of prey, catch at, tear, and rend...
And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm: Ver. 20. _And he shall sna...
_He shall snatch on the right hand_ They shall plunder and devour one another, without ever being satisfied, or ceasing. _They shall eat every man the flesh_, &c. They shall destroy one another by the...
SNATCH: Heb cut...
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...
SHALL SNATCH; every one shall greedily and violently seize upon any provisions that come in his way; which implies, either great scarcity, or insatiable covetousness, as is manifest from the next clau...
Isaiah 9:20 snatch H1504 (H8799) hand H3225 hungry H7457 devour H398 (H8799) hand H8040 satisfied H7646 ...
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...
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...
Isaiah 49:26; Jeremiah 19:9; Lamentations 4:10; Leviticus 26:26...