Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 30:7
To her — To Jerusalem or Judah. Sit still — It is safer and better for them to sit quietly at home, seeking to me for help.
To her — To Jerusalem or Judah. Sit still — It is safer and better for them to sit quietly at home, seeking to me for help.
Verse Isaiah 30:7. _THEIR STRENGTH_ IS _TO SIT STILL__ _- "Rahab the Inactive."] The two last words, הם שבת _hem shabeth_, joined into one, make the participle pihel המשבת _hammeshabbeth_. I find the...
FOR THE EGYPTIANS SHALL HELP IN VAIN - That is, if they enter into the alliance, they shall not be able to defend you from the invader. The other member of the sentence would seem to imply that they w...
CHAPTER 30 The Fourth Woe Against Alliance With Egypt 1. _The alliance and its failure (Isaiah 30:1)_ 2. _The written table against the rebellious people (Isaiah 30:8)_ 3. Jehovah's word of encourage...
This passage is introduced by a strange title, Oracle concerning the beasts of the Negeb, _i.e._ either the beasts who carry the treasure to Egypt (Isaiah 30:6_ b_), or the wild creatures that infest...
HAVE. CRIED CONCERNING THIS. have. called (or named) her. THEIR STRENGTH, &C. Hebrew Egypt sitting still (and thus not giving the help that was being sought). Rahab. pride, or strength, is put by Fig...
_For the Egyptians … purpose_ Render AND AS FOR EGYPT THEIR HELP IS VAIN AND EMPTY. Cf. Isaiah 30:3_; Isaiah 30:5_. _have I cried concerning this_ Better, HAVE I CALLED HER (R.V.). _Their strength_is...
These verses are marked as an independent oracle by a heading in the enigmatic style of those in ch. 21, 22. Some commentators regard the title as an editorial note which has crept into the text from...
DISCOURSE: 903 CONFIDENCE IN GOD RECOMMENDED Isaiah 30:7. _Therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is, to sit still._ NOTHING is more strongly inculcated in the Holy Scriptures than tr...
FOR HIS PRINCES WERE AT ZOAN— _When his princes—to Hanes,_ Isaiah 30:5 _they were,_ &c. Isaiah 30:6 _as to the burden of the beasts southward, unto a land—from whence come the lioness and stout lion_—...
B. FRIENDS THAT FETTER, Chapter S 30-31 1. SHAME TEXT: Isaiah 30:1-14 1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, that take counsel, but not of me; and that make a league, but not of my Spirit...
For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still. FOR THE EGYPTIANS SHALL HELP IN VAIN, AND TO NO PURPOSE - Hebrew, '...
30:7 Arrogance, (b-16) Heb. _ Rahab_ , a name of Egypt....
THIS] I.E. Jerusalem (according to AV), who, instead of thus seeking foreign aid, ought to rest confident in Jehovah's protection (Isaiah 30:15). But more probably the reference is to Egypt. 'Therefor...
1-7. The Egyptian alliance is profitless. 8-11. The perversity of Judah, 12-17. and its disastrous consequences. 18-26. There is a glorious prospect for the repentant people. 27-33 But first Jehov...
Rahab is another name for Leviathan (see my note on Isaiah 27:1). GOD’S PEOPLE REFUSE TO LISTEN V8 Then the *Lord told Isaiah to cut all the letters of this message on a flat stone. And he was to w...
CONCERNING THIS. — Better, _it,_ or _her — i.e.,_ Egypt. THEIR STRENGTH IS TO SIT STILL. — The Authorised version fairly gives the meaning: “Their boasted strength will be found absolute inaction.” bu...
וּ מִצְרַ֕יִם הֶ֥בֶל וָ רִ֖יק יַעְזֹ֑רוּ לָכֵ
BOOK 3 ORATIONS ON THE EGYPTIAN INTRIGUES AND ORACLES ON FOREIGN NATIONS 705-702 B.C. Isaiah: 29 About 703 30 A little later 31 A little later 32:1-8 Later 32:9-20 Date uncertain ------------...
FATAL RELIANCE ON HUMAN AID Isaiah 30:1-17 Toward the close of the 8th century, b.c. Jerusalem sent ambassadors to seek help from Egypt against Assyria, in distinct defiance of God's repeated warning...
This chapter contains two distinct messages. In the first, the prophet denounces an alliance with Egypt (verses Isa 30:1-26), and in the second foretells the destruction of Assyria (verses Isa 30:27-3...
For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried (e) concerning this, Their strength (f) [is] to sit still. (e) That is, to Jerusalem. (f) And not to come to and fro t...
_Cried. Hebrew, "called it Rahab, (or pride) it is rest." The people are indolent, though they will make great promises. (Calmet)_...
These are parts of the same burden, and not unlike what was said before concerning Egypt, under the figure of the land shadowing with wings, Isaiah 18:1....
7._Surely the Egyptians are vanity. _(288) This verse contains the explanation of the former statement; for he repeats and threatens the same thing, that the Egyptians, after having worn out the Jews...
The effect of this unbelief is manifested in chapter 30. The people put their trust in man, according to the wisdom of man. They look to Egypt for help, but in vain. This contempt of Jehovah, accompan...
FOR THE EGYPTIANS SHALL HELP IN VAIN, AND TO NO PURPOSE,.... Not sending help in time, or such as did no service; though they made a show of help, and attempted to help them, or seemed to do so, yet f...
For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength [is] to sit still. Ver. 7. _For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose._]...
_The burden of the beasts of the south_ The burden of riches or treasures, carried upon beasts travelling southward. In these verses the prophet has before his eyes “the ambassadors of the Jews, or, a...
THE ALLIANCE WITH EGYPT AND THE REBELLIOUS PEOPLE...
For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose, their help will be vapor and emptiness, an unusually strong expression to designate the helplessness of Egypt; THEREFORE HAVE I CRIED CONCERNING...
CONCERNING THIS: Or, to her...
1-7 It was often the fault and folly of the Jews, that when troubled by their neighbours on one side, they sought for succour from others, instead of looking up to God. Nor can we avoid the dreadful...
CONCERNING THIS; concerning this counsel or practice. Or, _to her_; to Jerusalem or Judah. THEIR STRENGTH IS TO SIT STILL; it is safer and better for them to sit quietly at home, seeking to me for hel...
Isaiah 30:7 Egyptians H4714 help H5826 (H8799) vain H1892 purpose H7385 Therefore H2063 called H7121 (H8804) Rahab-Hem
CHAPTER 30 THE FOURTH WOE. AGAINST THOSE WHO TRUST IN EGYPT RATHER THAN IN YAHWEH (ISAIAH 30:1). Having broken with Assyria and withheld tribute, as a result of the death of Sargon II of Assyria and t...
THE BURDEN OF THE BEASTS OF THE SOUTH (ISAIAH 30:6). A prophetic burden usually indicates judgment on the subject of the burden. Here the judgment is on the beasts who carry the bribes to Egypt. For...
CONTENTS: Warnings against alliance with Egypt against Sennacherib and exhortation to turn to the Lord for help. CHARACTERS: God, Pharoah. CONCLUSION: When sin has brought men into distress, it is th...
Isaiah 30:1. _Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me._ It was a law among all ancient nations to undertake nothing of importance without consulting the gods....
_Their strength is to sit still_ A POLICY IN AN EPIGRAM Sometimes a policy is summed up in an epigram, or in an easily quotable sentence; and it can be used as a war cry or as an election cry; it ca...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 30:6 Isaiah mocks the Judeans carrying payment to the court of Egypt. RAHAB WHO SITS STILL. For Rahab as a poetical name for Egypt, see Psalms 87:4
STRENGTH IN QUIETNESS [1120] [1120] See also CHRISTIAN QUIETNESS, Isaiah 30:15. Isaiah 30:7. _Their strength is to sit still_. There is a sense in which “sitting still” is not our strength, but our...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 30:1 THE ALLIANCE WITH EGYPT OPENLY REBUKED. In the preceding chapter (Isaiah 30:15) the design of the Jewish rulers to seek the alliance of Egypt was covertly
Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not from me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to their sin (Isaiah 30:1): Now these pe...
Exodus 14:13; Hosea 5:13; Isaiah 2:22; Isaiah 28:12; Isaiah 30:15;...