Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 34:12
None — They shall not find any willing to undertake the government. Nothing — Shall have no courage or strength left in them.
None — They shall not find any willing to undertake the government. Nothing — Shall have no courage or strength left in them.
THEY SHALL CALL THE NOBLES THEREOF TO THE KINGDOM - A more correct rendering of this would be, ‘As to the nobles, they shall call them, but there shall be there no kingdom.’ The idea is, that the king...
CHAPTER 34 The Day of Jehovah 1. _Addressed to the world: Jews and Gentiles involved (Isaiah 34:1)_ 2. _The shaking of the earth and the heavens (Isaiah 34:2)_ 3. _The day of vengeance (Isaiah 34:9)_...
Edom is near to the Dead Sea, and the country is volcanic, and these facts suggest this lurid picture of judgment. Edom's rivers will be turned to pitch, its dust to brimstone, the land shall be a smo...
_They shall call the nobles … there_ A very obscure sentence, probably through a defect in the text. The rendering of E.V. might be maintained if with Prof. Weir we suppose a transposition of words in...
The fate of the land of Edom is next represented under two incompatible images, first that of a perpetual conflagration (Isaiah 34:9), and second that of a dreary solitude, peopled only by "doleful cr...
AND THE STREAMS THEREOF, &C.— The prophet, whose copiousness of speaking is every where inexhausted, paints, in the most chosen figures, an image of the land and city desolated by war, wasted by fire,...
2. SHAMBLES TEXT: Isaiah 34:8-17 8 For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. 9 And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into...
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing. THEY SHALL CALL THE NOBLES THEREOF TO THE KINGDOM, BUT NONE (SHALL BE) THERE - rath...
34:12 proclaim (f-6) Or 'whom they call to.'...
4. CP. 1 Isaiah 3:10....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD DEFENDS *JERUSALEM ISAIAH CHAPTER S 31 TO 39 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 34 GOD WILL PUNISH HIS ENEMIES v1 Come, all you nations! Gather here and listen. Let...
THEY SHALL CALL THE NOBLES THEREOF... — The monarchy of Edom seems to have been elective, its rulers being known, not as kings, but by the title which the English version renders by “dukes” (Genesis 3...
חֹרֶ֥יהָ וְ אֵֽין ־שָׁ֖ם מְלוּכָ֣ה יִקְרָ֑אוּ...
REAPING THE WHIRLWIND Isaiah 34:1-17 This chapter is one prolonged description of the judgments which were to befall the nations at the hand of Assyria and Babylon. The imagery employed is borrowed f...
This and the following chapter constitute the second part of the final circle of the prophecies of judgment. Terrible indeed is the description of world-wide desolation which this chapter presents. Th...
(m) They shall call her nobles to the kingdom, but none [shall be] there, and all her princes shall be nothing. (m) Meaning, here will be neither order nor policy nor state of commonwealth....
If we read these scriptures through the medium of the gospel, and drop the similitudes in the realities, we shall find an exact description of the human heart, void of grace; and the dreadful conditio...
12._They shall call her nobles without a kingdom. _This passage has received various interpretations, which I do not quote, because it would be tedious to refute them. One of the most probable is, “Th...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 33 AND 34. Chapter s 33, 34 announce the last two great acts of judgment. At the moment when God establishes Himself in Zion, and fills it with righteousness,...
THEY SHALL CALL THE NOBLES THEREOF TO THE KINGDOM, BUT NONE [SHALL BE] THERE,.... They shall call them to take upon them the kingdom and government, and there shall be none to do it, or that will care...
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none [shall be] there, and all her princes shall be nothing. Ver. 12. _They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom._] The Venetians have m...
_And the streams thereof_ The rivers, which seem most secure from the judgment here threatened; _shall be turned into pitch_, &c. The country shall be dealt with as Sodom and Gomorrah were, even utter...
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, literally, "As to her nobles, there are none there that call out a monarchy," that is, none are left to elect a new king or...
IDUMEA AS A TYPE OF HOSTILITY AGAINST GOD...
9-17 Those who aim to ruin the church, can never do that, but will ruin themselves. What dismal changes sin can make! It turns a fruitful land into barrenness, a crowded city into a wilderness. Let u...
THEY SHALL CALL THE NOBLES THEREOF TO THE KINGDOM, BUT NONE SHALL BE THERE; they shall endeavour to heal their breaches, but in vain; the remnant of the people shall seek for any fit person, and offer...
Isaiah 34:12 call H7121 (H8799) nobles H2715 kingdom H4410 princes H8269 nothing H657 call -...
THE ALL-EMBRACING NATURE OF THE JUDGMENT AND ITS PERMANENCE (ISAIAH 34:9). It is important to note that God's judgment on Edom will be all-embracing and permanent. Nothing will survive it. It is an i...
CONTENTS: Prophecy of the Day of the Lord and Armaggedon. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: There is a day fixed in the divine counsels for the deliverance of God's people and cause in the earth and the d...
Isaiah 34:1. _Come near ye nations to hear for the indignation of the Lord is upon all_ the kingdoms of western Asia. Those nations are named in Jeremiah 25. They comprise Jerusalem, Egypt, Tyre, Edom...
_Come near, ye nations, to hear._ --The subject is, as in chap. 13., the Lord’s judgment upon all the nations; and as chap 13. singled out Babylon for special doom, so chap. 34, singles out Edom. ...
SECTION 11. THE DIVINE JUDGMENT ON THE WORLD, AND THE GLORY OF THE CHURCH CONSEQUENT UPON IT (Isaiah 34:1;...
Come near, ye nations, to hear; hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. For the indignation (Isaiah 34:1-2) A term that is us...
1 Corinthians 13:2; 1 Corinthians 8:4; 2 Corinthians 12:11; Ecclesiastes 10:16;...