Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Isaiah 14:17
Whereby he signifies both his irresistible power, and his continued cruelty. He neither was willing to give them any liberty or ease, nor could any force him to do it.
Whereby he signifies both his irresistible power, and his continued cruelty. He neither was willing to give them any liberty or ease, nor could any force him to do it.
THAT MADE THE WORLD AS A WILDERNESS - That made cities and kingdoms desolate. THAT OPENED NOT THE HOUSE OF HIS PRISONERS - This is a description of his oppression and cruelty. Of course many prisoners...
CHAPTER 14 Israel's Restoration and Blessing After Babylon is Fallen and the Burden of Philistia 1. _Israel's restoration and exaltation (Isaiah 14:1)_ 2. _The proverb against the king of Babylon (Is...
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...
WORLD. the habitable world. Hebrew. _tebel._ OPENED NOT THE HOUSE OF. loosed not....
_b_ 21. The song of triumph over the king of Babylon is one of the finest specimens of Hebrew poetry which the Old Testament contains. A division into five strophes, each containing seven long lines,...
The fourth strophe. The scene here is no longer in Hades, but on the battle-field, where the dead body of the king lies unburied, exposed to the derision of men....
_opened not the house of his prisoners_ Translate as R.V. LET NOT LOOSE HIS PRISONERS TO THEIR HOME (a so-called pregnant construction). But from this point the rhythm is defective, and the text is al...
b. DEPOSED TEXT: Isaiah 14:12-20 12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low the nations! 13 And thou saidst in thy...
They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; -The passers by contemplate with astonishment the...
THE JUDGMENT OF BABYLON AND ITS KING This is the first of a series of prophecies dealing mainly with foreign nations. Its subject is Babylon, where the Jews are represented as undergoing exile, from w...
1. STRANGERS] The thought of the voluntary adhesion of strangers is prominent in the later Chapter s of the book (Isaiah 44:5; Isaiah 55:5; Isaiah 60:5)....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 14 THE *LORD’S PEOPLE WILL COME HOME V1 The *Lord will pity the peo...
THAT OPENED NOT THE HOUSE OF HIS PRISONERS. — Better, as in the margin, _he loosed not his prisoners to their homes._ This was, we may note, a characteristic feature of the cruelty of the Assyrian kin...
שָׂ֥ם תֵּבֵ֛ל כַּ † מִּדְבָּ֖ר וְ עָרָ֣יו...
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...
CHAPTER XXVII BABYLON AND LUCIFER DATE UNCERTAIN Isaiah 13:1; Isaiah 14:1 THIS double oracle is against the City Isaiah 13:2; I
Anticipating the great day of restoration, the prophet puts into the mouth of Israel the great parable or song which celebrates the downfall of Assyria. This moves in five distinct strophes. In the fi...
[That] made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; [that] opened not (l) the house of his prisoners? (l) To set them free, noting his cruelty....
I do not interrupt the reading through this long chain of the most wonderful events, because it forms one grand whole. The destruction which will ultimately fall upon the enemies of God and of his Chr...
17._He made the world as a wilderness. _He expresses the cruel and savage disposition of the tyrant, by saying that he _brought desolation on the world_, that he _overthrew cities_, that he _did not r...
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...
[THAT] MADE THE WORLD AS A WILDERNESS,.... Both by destroying the inhabitants of it, and by laying waste cities, towns, villages, fields, vineyards, gardens, and all places improved and cultivated, wh...
__ Isaiah 14:17 _[That] made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; [that] opened not the house of his prisoners?_ Ver. 17. _That made the world as a wilderness._] Nero the tyr...
_Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell_ To the grave, and the state of the dead; _to the sides of the pit_ And lodged there in the lowest state of misery and degradation. _They that see thee_ In this...
THE DELIVERANCE OF ISRAEL...
that made the world as a wilderness and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? showing no pity in dismissing them to their homes. Because the king of Babylon was gui...
THAT OPENED NOT THE HOUSE OF HIS PRISONERS? : Or, did not let his prisoners loose homeward...
1-23 The whole plan of Divine Providence is arranged with a view to the good of the people of God. A settlement in the land of promise is of God's mercy. Let the church receive those whom God receive...
Isaiah 14:17 made H7760 (H8804) world H8398 wilderness H4057 destroyed H2040 (H8804) cities H5892 open H6605 ...
THE DEMISE OF BABYLON AND HUMILIATION OF ITS BOASTFUL KINGS (ISAIAH 14:3). The coming of the Babylonian ambassadors to Hezekiah had had a profound influence on Isaiah. As he thought on the future, wit...
Isaiah 14:1. _For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jaco...
CONTENTS: Christ's Kingdom set up on earth with Israel restored, the Beast of hell. Satan's fall and doom. Babylon's final judgment. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: It is the comfort of God's people tha...
Isaiah 14:1. _And set them in their own land._ This prediction is so correct, as appears from the books of Nehemiah and Ezra, that no man can doubt the truth of prophecy; and its literal accomplishmen...
_Thou shalt take up this proverb against the King of Babylon_ THE “PROVERB AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON” Lowth is generally thought not to speak with exaggeration when he calls it the finest [song] o...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 14:1 THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL, AND HER SONG OF TRIUMPH OVER BABYLON. The destruction of Babylon is to be followed by the restoration of Israel, with the good w
For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob (Isaiah 14:1...
2 Chronicles 28:8; Ezekiel 6:14; Ezra 1:2; Isaiah 13:19; Isaiah 4
Cried not — Whereby he signifies both his irresistible power, and his continued cruelty....