Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 13:14
It — Babylon. A roe — Fearful in itself, especially when it is pursued by the hunter. A sheep — In a most forlorn condition. Every man — Those soldiers of other nations, whom she had hired to assist her.
It — Babylon. A roe — Fearful in itself, especially when it is pursued by the hunter. A sheep — In a most forlorn condition. Every man — Those soldiers of other nations, whom she had hired to assist her.
Verse Isaiah 13:14. "And the remnant"] Here is plainly a defect in this sentence, as it stands in the _Hebrew_ text; the subject of the proposition is lost. What is it that shall be like a roe chased...
AND IT SHALL BE - Babylon shall be. AS THE CHASED ROE - Once so proud. lofty, arrogant, and self-confident; it shall be as the trembling gazelle, or the timid deer pursued by the hunter, and panting f...
2. THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS AND THE FUTURE DAY OF JEHOVAH (13-27) CHAPTER 13 The Burden of Babylon 1. _Jehovah's call to the judgment of Babylon (Isaiah 13:1)_ 2. _The day of Jehovah: When Babylo...
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...
MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14....
Those who flee to their own land are the foreign residents who had been attracted by the wealth and commerce of Babylon from all parts of the world, cf. Jeremiah 51:44; Nahum 2:8; Nahum 3:16. _a sheep...
The middle division of the prophecy enlarges on the nature, purpose and effects of this day of Jehovah....
The dispersion and slaughter of the population of Babylon. The prophecy from this point becomes more explicit in its main reference to Babylon....
THEREFORE I WILL SHAKE THE HEAVENS— Every one who reads and compares these words with those preceding, must observe, that they contain an explanation of what the prophet had said concerning the mighty...
b. PURPOSE OF JUDGMENT TEXT: Isaiah 13:9-16 9 Behold the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 10...
And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land. IT - Babylon. SHALL BE AS THE CHASED R...
RV 'And it shall come to pass that as,' etc. THAT NO MAN TAKETH UP] i.e. without a shepherd. THEY SHALL.. TURN] i.e. the settlers in Babylon, either taken captive from other countries, or resorting th...
1. BURDEN] The corresponding verb means 'to lift up' (_a_) a load, (_b_) the voice (cp. Isaiah 3:7; Isaiah 42:2; Isaiah 42:11), used of Balaam lifting up his voice in oracular utterance ...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 13 The next major division of the Book of Isaiah is Chapter s 13 to...
AND IT SHALL BE AS THE CHASED ROE. — Better, _as with a chased roe .... as with sheep ..._ The roe and the sheep represent the “mixed multitude” (Ӕsch., _Pers._ 52) of all nations who had been carried...
וְ הָיָה֙ כִּ צְבִ֣י מֻדָּ֔ח וּ כְ
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...
We now commence the second circle of the first division of our book, in which are contained Isaiah's prophecies concerning the nations and the world. The first describes the doom of Babylon. Whereas t...
And (m) it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one to his own land. (m) Meaning the power of Babylon with the...
_Land. Baltassar shall be abandoned by his allies. Cr\'9csus had been already defeated, before Cyrus invested Babylon._...
In these verses we have a continuation of the subject concerning the destruction of Babylon, with the effects to be wrought by it on all the people. And, what is very observable, so hardened against a...
14._And it shall be as the chased roe. _He shows that auxiliary troops will be of no avail to the Babylonians, and by these comparisons he describes the fear which shall seize the soldiers. Babylon em...
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...
AND IT SHALL BE AS THE CHASED ROE,.... That is, Babylon, and the inhabitants thereof, shall be like a roe when hunted by the dogs; which is a very fearful creature, and at the sight and noise of the d...
And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land. Ver. 14. _And it shall be as the chased roe...
_I will punish the world_ The Babylonish empire, which is called the world, as the Roman empire afterward was, (Luke 2:1,) because it was extended to a great part of the world, and because it was very...
AGAINST BABYLON IN PARTICULAR...
And it, namely, Babylon, SHALL BE AS THE CHASED ROE, the timid gazelle, which is so easily startled, AND AS A SHEEP THAT NO MAN TAKETH UP, like a panic-stricken flock which simply cannot be brought to...
6-18 We have here the terrible desolation of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. Those who in the day of their peace were proud, and haughty, and terrible, are quite dispirited when trouble comes. The...
AND IT, to wit, Babylon, SHALL BE AS THE CHASED ROE; fearful in itself, especially when it is pursued by the hunter. AS A SHEEP THAT NO MAN TAKETH UP; in a most forlorn and neglected condition. EVERY...
Isaiah 13:14 hunted H5080 (H8716) gazelle H6643 sheep H6629 up H6908 (H8764) man H376 turn H6437 ...
THE APOCALYPTIC DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON (ISAIAH 13:6). The forces having been gathered by Yahweh on the remoteness of the bare mountain, they are to be unleashed in ‘the Day of Yahweh', and it will se...
CONTENTS: Prophecy concerning last days, when punishment will be visited upon the nations, and Israel shall pass through the Great Tribulation. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Men have their da...
In the thirteen Chapter s which follow, the prophet, like a watchman, raises his voice, and denounces woes against all the surrounding nations, and finally against his own country. Isaiah 13:1. _The b...
EXPOSITION THE BURDEN OF BABYLON. The series of prophecies which commences with this chapter and continues to the close of Isaiah 23:1; is connected together by the word _massa_, burden. It has been a...
Now as we move into chapter 13 and he speaks of the burden of Babylon which Isaiah saw, you remember that we mentioned when we started the prophecy of Isaiah that in many of the prophecies, there was...
1 Kings 22:17; 1 Kings 22:36; Isaiah 17:13; Isaiah 47:15; Jerem