Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Isaiah 24:12
The gates of the city are totally ruined, that the enemy may enter when and where they please.
The gates of the city are totally ruined, that the enemy may enter when and where they please.
AND THE GATE IS SMITTEN WITH DESTRUCTION - The word rendered ‘destruction’ may denote ‘a crash’ (Gesenius). The idea is, that the gates of the city, once so secure, are how battered down and demolishe...
CHAPTER 24 The Day of Jehovah 1. _Jehovah dealing with the earth(Isaiah 24:1)_ 2. _All classes affected (Isaiah 24:2)_ 3. _The Desolations described (Isaiah 24:3)_ 4. The Jewish Remnant during the tr...
ISAIAH 24. A WORLD-WIDE JUDGMENT FORETOLD. The apocalypse opens with the description of a judgment on the whole world. This judgment is predicted, it has not already happened. It will involve all in o...
DESOLATION. astonishment. Hebrew. _shamen_. Compare Isaiah 24:6; Isaiah 24:10; Isaiah 24:23....
_In the city is left desolation_ after its mirth has gone into banishment....
Even the "city," usually the scene of busy and joyous life, shares in the universal sadness. It is difficult to say whether a particular city is meant, or whether the word is used collectively for cit...
THE CITY OF CONFUSION, &C.— We have here the sixth gradation, which requires no other comment than to be compared with the history, Genesis 3:45, &c. See also ch. Isaiah 16:8 which will explain the ph...
2. JUDGMENT IS BITTER TEXT: Isaiah 24:7-16 7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. 8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the...
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. THE GATE IS SMITTEN WITH DESTRUCTION - `with a great tumult (of the assailants) the gate is battered down' (Horsley). Or e...
2. All class distinctions are obliterated and confused....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 24 GOD WILL DESTROY THE EARTH V1 Listen carefully! The *Lord intends to empty the la...
נִשְׁאַ֥ר בָּ † עִ֖יר שַׁמָּ֑ה וּ שְׁאִיָּ֖ה...
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...
THE DESOLATION OF A GUILTY WORLD Isaiah 24:1-13 This and the three following Chapter s form a single prophecy, describing the calamities about to desolate the land, because the inhabitants _had trans...
In these last Chapter s of the second circle, the prophet takes a still wider outlook. He sees how all the world is under the government of God. In this chapter the prophet states the fact in general...
Here is but little variation from what went before. The representation is as if taken from the prophets vision; the roll is written within and without, and the contents are lamentations, and mourning,...
12._In the city is left desolation. _By an elegant mode of expression he describes the desolation of Jerusalem or of many other cities. The ornament and perfection of cities consists of men; and there...
Chapter 24 sets before us the overturning of everything in the earth. The land of Israel is first in view. But there all the elements of all the systems of this world will be gathered together and jud...
IN THE CITY IS LEFT DESOLATION,.... And nothing else, palaces, houses, and temples burnt, and inhabitants destroyed; none but devils, foul spirits, and hateful and unclean birds, inhabiting it, Revel...
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. Ver. 12. _In the city is left desolation._] There is nothing of any worth left, but havoc made of all; it is plundered to the...
_The city_ Jerusalem, and other cities, for the word may be here taken collectively; _of confusion_ Hebrew, תהו, which signifies _vanity, emptiness, desolation_, or _confusion._ And the city may be th...
THE JUDGMENT UPON THE EARTH. The four ers, 24 to 27 inclusive, form one continuous poetical prophecy, remarkable both for form and for content. It is a great chorus in four movements, describing the e...
In the city is left desolation, only chaos and ruin to be found there, AND THE GATE IS SMITTEN WITH DESTRUCTION, battered down. Cf Matthew 24:6; Mark 13:7; Luke 21:9....
1-12 All whose treasures and happiness are laid up on earth, will soon be brought to want and misery. It is good to apply to ourselves what the Scripture says of the vanity and vexation of spirit whi...
Isaiah 24:12 city H5892 desolation H8047 left H7604 (H8738) gate H8179 stricken H3807 (H8714) destruction H7591...
EVENTUALLY THE CURSE WILL RESULT IN BLESSING FOR GOD'S OWN PEOPLE (ISAIAH 24:4). The reason for the coming judgment is clearly stated. It will occur because of man's disobedience to God. That will be...
CONTENTS: Looking through national troubles to the Kingdom age. The coming tribulation for the Jews, destruction of Gentile powers and opening of the Kingdom. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Earth, poll...
Isaiah 24:17. _Fear, and the pit._ This is a figure of hunting, the wild beasts being chased into pits dug in narrow passages, and covered with green branches. So the great ones should be caught, by t...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 24:1 The third and climactic vision of God ruling the nations in judgment and salvation. These chapters foresee the whole world in crisis at the end of history, but God’s people...
SECTION VI. GOD'S GENERAL JUDGMENTS UPON THE EARTH (Isaiah 24-27.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 24:1 GOD'S JUDGMENTS ON THE WORLD AT
Now as we get into chapter 24, we get into, really, things that the earth will be facing very soon, because we get into things that will be happening during the Great Tribulation as the Lord is prepar...
Isaiah 32:14; Jeremiah 9:11; Lamentations 1:1; Lamentations 1:4;...