Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 28:22
Lest — Lest thereby you make the judgments of God sure and unavoidable. For — God hath assured me, that he will utterly destroy the people of Israel.
Lest — Lest thereby you make the judgments of God sure and unavoidable. For — God hath assured me, that he will utterly destroy the people of Israel.
Verse Isaiah 28:22. _THE LORD GOD_] אדני יהוה _Adonai Jehovah_. Adonai is omitted by four of _Kennicott's_ MSS., and in the _Septuagint,_ _Syriac_, and _Arabic_....
NOW THEREFORE - In view of the certain judgment which God will bring upon you. BE YE NOT MOCKERS - This was the prevailing sin Isaiah 28:9, and on account of this sin in part the judgment of God was...
3. THE SIX WOES OF THE PROPHET, JUDGMENT RUINS AND RESTORATION GLORIES TO COME (28-35) CHAPTER 28 The First Woe and the Message of Assurance 1. _Ephraim addressed (Isaiah 28:1)_ 2. _Jerusalem equall...
JERUSALEM ALSO IS THREATENED WITH DESTRUCTION. But Jerusalem like Ephraim reels with intoxication, the priests and prophets especially. The prophet is not steady in his vision, the priest when pronoun...
EARTH. land, or soil....
There is again a _literary_connexion with what precedes; although the passage is probably a summary of an independent discourse. The prophet's aim is to impress on his opponents the disastrous consequ...
A final appeal to the "scoffers" (Isaiah 28:14), based on the irreversible decision of Jehovah. _be ye not mockers_ DO NOT PLAY THE SCOFFER. _lest your bands be made strong_ i.e. "lest ye be firmly...
JUDGMENT ALSO WILL I LAY TO THE LINE— The prophet, having provided for the safety of those who put their trust in God, prepares himself to denounce the judgments ready for the profane and hypocritical...
2. STABILITY TEXT: Isaiah 28:14-29 14 Wherefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem: 15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and...
Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth. BE YE NOT MOCKERS - a sin which th...
28:22 land. (a-31) Or 'earth,' as ch. 10.23....
Their scornful attitude will only lead to heavier foreign oppression. LEST YOUR BANDS] They are acting in such a way as to fix the Assyrian yoke more firmly upon Judah, and render it more galling. CON...
This chapter must be assigned (Isaiah 28:1) to a date prior to the capture of Samaria by the Assyrians (722 b.c.) and fall of the northern kingdom. 1-6. Samaria's luxury and self-indulgence pave the...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 28 The next section of the Book of Isaiah is from Chapter 28 to Chapter 33. These Cha...
The ‘whole country’ means not only Israel (Samaria) to the north (verses 1-13). It also includes Judah (verses 14-22). WISDOM COMES FROM GOD V23 Listen carefully to what I am saying. Give attention...
NOW THEREFORE BE YE NOT MOCKERS... — The rulers are warned that the scorn in which they indulge so freely will only make the fetters which already gall them tighter and heavier. In the words that foll...
וְ עַתָּה֙ אַל ־תִּתְלֹוצָ֔צוּ פֶּֽן ־יֶחְזְק֖וּ...
BOOK 3 PROPHECIES FROM THE ACCESSION OF HEZEKIAH TO THE DEATH OF SARGON 727-705 B.C. THE prophecies with which we have been engaged (Chapter s 2-10:4) fall either before or during the great Assyrian...
TRUTH THE ONLY REFUGE Isaiah 28:14-29 In the beginning of Hezekiah's reign the Jewish leaders had made an alliance with Assyria, on whom they relied to protect them against any and all foes. But the...
Here begins the third and last circle of the first division of the book. It consists of a series of prophecies concerning the chosen people and the world. In this chapter we have a graphic revelation...
_Earth. Nabuchodonosor will take a complete and speedy vengeance, chap. x. 22._...
I have often thought, that among all the unpromising appearances of things around, when men sin with a high hand, in slighting and despising both God's judgments and God's mercies; the most unpromisin...
22._Now therefore. _He again reminds those wicked men, whom he had formerly called “scorners,” (Isaiah 28:14,) that their cunning, and contempt, and jeers, and mockery, will avail them nothing, becaus...
Chapter 28 sets before us the first elements of these final scenes in the history of this wonderful people. The scourge comes from the north. Ephraim is invaded as by an overflowing torrent, by a temp...
NOW THEREFORE BE YE NOT MOCKERS,.... At the words of the prophets, and the judgments denounced by them, which is very common, when they are deferred, and not immediately executed: this was the case be...
Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth. Ver. 22. _Now therefore be ye not moc...
_Now therefore be not mockers_ For your own sakes do not make a mock of God's word and threatenings, as you use to do. _Lest your bands be made strong_ Lest thereby you make the judgments of God, whic...
Now, therefore, so the prophet, in conclusion, warns the scoffers, BE YE NOT MOCKERS, LEST YOUR BANDS BE MADE STRONG, namely, the fetters of their submission to Assyria; FOR I HAVE HEARD FROM THE LORD...
THE FALSE QND THE TRUE REFUGE...
16-22 Here is a promise of Christ, as the only foundation of hope for escaping the wrath to come. This foundation was laid in Zion, in the eternal counsels of God. This foundation is a stone, firm an...
BE YE NOT MOCKERS; for your own sakes do not make a mock of God's word and threatenings, as you use to do. LEST YOUR BANDS BE MADE STRONG; lest thereby you make the judgments of God, which are oft com...
Isaiah 28:22 mockers H3887 (H8698) bonds H4147 strong H2388 (H8799) heard H8085 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD...
ISAIAH STERNLY WARNS ABOUT THE THREATENING FUTURE IF THEY WILL NOT LOOK TO GOD'S SURE FOUNDATION (ISAIAH 28:14). The leaders of Judah reply that they are not afraid of his threats because they have go...
CONTENTS: Woe of Ephriam due to drunkenness. Prediction of Assyrian captivity of Ephriam. Ephriam's fate a warning to Judah. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The glorious beauty and the plenty of the lan...
Isaiah 28:1. _The crown of pride._ Sebaste, the ancient Samaria, is situated on a long mount of an oval figure, having first a fruitful valley, and then a circle of hills running round about it. _Maun...
_Be ye not mockers_ A WARNING TO MOCKERS Enough is recorded in the chapter before us to justify this serious admonition. I. A SOLEMN WARNING. “Be ye not mockers.” 1. Are there no mockers in our re...
_Hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men_ ISAIAH’S RESPONSE The prophet replies that when the storm does sweep over the land, as it assuredly will, these “refuges of lies” will prove no shelter to...
IRRELIGIOUS MOCKERY Isaiah 28:22. _Now, therefore, be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong_. The sense of the ludicrous is excited by words, ideas, images, or objects in which unexpected re...
SECTION VII. RENEWED DENUNCIATIONS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH (CH. 28-31.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 28:1 A WARNING TO SAMARIA. The prophet has now east his eagle glance
Chapter 28. Now the prophet turns to the local present issues. He is now... he's gone off down the road to the end of things. Now he comes back and he begins to speak of the Northern Kingdom, the majo...
2 Chronicles 30:10; 2 Chronicles 33:11; 2 Chronicles 36:16; Acts 13:40;...