Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 34:17
Divided — He hath divided the land to them, as it were by lot and line, as Canaan was divided among the Israelites.
Divided — He hath divided the land to them, as it were by lot and line, as Canaan was divided among the Israelites.
AND HE HATH CAST THE LOT FOR THEM - He hath assigned to them the land of Edom to be occupied by them as their portion. This language is taken from the fact that countries were commonly apportioned, pa...
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...
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...
The eternity of the judgment is again emphasised (Isaiah 34:10)....
SEEK YE OUT OF THE BOOK, &C.— This period contains the confirmation of the preceding sentence; wherein the prophet, to convict the hypocrites, and confirm the pious, assures them of the certain comple...
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...
And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein. HE HATH CAST THE LOT - as...
34:17 it (a-15) i.e. the land of Edom....
God, who assigns to nations their territories (Acts 17:26), has allotted Edom to the desert creatures for ever. SENTENCE ON THE NATIONS. BLESSINGS IN STORE FOR GOD'S PEOPLE These Chapter s are now ge...
4. CP. 1 Isaiah 3:10....
The general purpose of Isaiah’s words is to convince his readers that the *Lord will carry out his judgements completely. JERUSALEM ~ at the time of David and Solomon, capital of the country called I...
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...
HE HATH CAST THE LOT FOR THEM..._ — i.e.,_ hath allotted, or assigned it as by a formal deed of transfer, _to_ the savage beasts who are to be its future possessors. The thought is the same as that of...
וְ הֽוּא ־הִפִּ֤יל לָהֶן֙ גֹּורָ֔ל וְ יָדֹ֛ו
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...
And he hath cast the (s) lot for them, and his hand hath divided it to them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell in it. (s) He has given the beasts...
Here the Lord seems to refer to the prediction, when the fulfillment arrives. As if the Lord had said, "Let such as behold the desolations here spoken of look back, and mark how I predicted them, and...
REFLECTIONS READER! here is a very solemn chapter, full of awful threatenings: from beginning to end. And, as we read what is here said, may we not, though from the mouth of one, who while professing...
17._And he hath cast the lot for them. _He says that to those wild beasts and monsters there hath been granted a secure and permanent habitation, from which they cannot be easily banished or driven ou...
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,...
AND HE HATH CAST THE LOT FOR THEM,.... The Targum adds, "by his word:'' AND HIS HAND HATH DIVIDED IT UNTO THEM BY LINE; the same adds, "by his will.'' The allusion is to the dividing of the land o...
And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein. Ver. 17. _And he hath cast t...
_Seek ye out of the book of the Lord_ Here the prophet confirms the preceding prediction; and, “to convict hypocrites, and confirm the pious, assures them of the certain completion of his prophecy.” H...
IDUMEA AS A TYPE OF HOSTILITY AGAINST GOD...
And He, Jehovah, HATH CAST THE LOT FOR THEM, for all the wild beasts of the desert, AND HIS HAND HATH DIVIDED IT UNTO THEM BY LINE, distributed it to them, given it to them for a possession; THEY SHAL...
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...
He hath divided the land to them, as it were, by lot and line, as Canaan was divided among the Israelites....
Isaiah 34:17 cast H5307 (H8689) lot H1486 hand H3027 divided H2505 (H8765) line H6957 possess H3423 ...
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. ...
THE CERTAINTY OF GOD’S JUDGMENTS Isaiah 34:16. _Seek ye out of the Book of the Lord, &c._ The text occurs midway between a series of predicted judgments pronounced on Edom as the representative of th...
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...
Acts 13:19; Acts 17:26; Isaiah 13:20; Isaiah 34:10; Joshua 18:8;...