Isaiah 24:1
The land — Of Canaan. Waste — He will shortly make it waste, first by the Assyrians, and then by the Chaldeans. Turneth — Brings it into great disorder and confusion.... [ Continue Reading ]
The land — Of Canaan. Waste — He will shortly make it waste, first by the Assyrians, and then by the Chaldeans. Turneth — Brings it into great disorder and confusion.... [ Continue Reading ]
It shall be — The approaching calamity shall be universal, without any distinction of persons or ranks; the priests themselves having been partakers of the peoples sins, shall also partake with them in their plagues. The seller — The purchaser of lands shall have no more left than he that hath sold... [ Continue Reading ]
The world — The land of Judea. The majesty — Not only common people, but the high and lofty ones.... [ Continue Reading ]
Defiled — By the wickedness of its people. The laws — The laws of God. Ordinance — God's ordinances concerning his worship and service; the singular being put for the plural. Covenant — The covenant made between God and Abraham, and all his posterity, which was everlasting, both on God's part, who,... [ Continue Reading ]
The curse — The curse of God threatened to transgressors. Burned — Are consumed by the wrath of God, which is commonly compared to fire.... [ Continue Reading ]
Mourneth — Because there are none to drink it. Grief is ascribed to senseless creatures by a figure usual in all authors. Languisheth — Because there are no people left to dress it, or gather its grapes. The merry — hearted — That made their hearts merry with wine.... [ Continue Reading ]
Tabrets — Which they used in their feasts. The noise — The word properly signifies a confused clamour, such as drunken men make.... [ Continue Reading ]
Bitter — Because of the fears and miseries wherewith it is mixed.... [ Continue Reading ]
The city — Jerusalem, and other cities; for the singular word may be here taken collectively. A city of confusion or disorder, breaking all the laws and orders which God had established among them. Shut up — Because the inhabitants are either dead, or gone into captivity.... [ Continue Reading ]
A crying — Such was their gross sensuality and sottishness, that instead of crying for their sins, they did only howl for their corn, and wine, and oil, Hosea 7:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
When — When this judgment shall be executed, there shall be left a remnant; as there are some few olives or grapes left after the vintage is over.... [ Continue Reading ]
They — The remnant shall sing for the glorious power and goodness of God, manifested in their deliverance. The sea — From the isles of the sea; from those parts beyond the sea into which, they were carried captive.... [ Continue Reading ]
In distress — When you are in the furnace of affliction. In the isles — In remote countries, beyond the sea, which in scripture are commonly called isles.... [ Continue Reading ]
From — From all the parts of the earth in which the Jews are or shall be. Songs — Of joy and praise. Glory — Or, glory be to the righteous. The Lord, the righteous one. But — In the midst of these joyful tidings, I discern something which gives me cause of lamentation. My leanness — I faint and pine... [ Continue Reading ]
The snare — Great and various judgments, some actually inflicted, and others justly feared.... [ Continue Reading ]
Fleeth — Upon the report of some terrible evil. The foundations — Both heaven and earth conspire against him. He alludes to the deluge of waters which God poured down from heaven, and to the earthquakes which he often causes below.... [ Continue Reading ]
The earth — This is repeated again, to shew the dreadfulness and, certainty of these judgments, and to awaken the stupid Israelites.... [ Continue Reading ]
A tent — Which is easily and commonly carried from place to place.... [ Continue Reading ]
Gathered — By God's special providence, in order to their punishment. And thus the unbelieving Jews were generally gathered together at Jerusalem, to their solemn feast, when Titus came and besieged, and destroyed them. Shut up — As malefactors, which are taken in several places, are usually brought... [ Continue Reading ]
The sun — All earthly powers and glories shall be obscured with the far greater splendor of Christ, the king of kings, at whose feet even the kings of the earth shall fall down and worship. The Lord — The Messiah, who, tho' man, yet is also God, and the Lord of hosts. Shall reign — Shall come in the... [ Continue Reading ]