A distinction is drawn between the ignorance of the educated and that of the uneducated classes. The man of culture is like one who willnot break the seal of a sealed book that he may read it; the man in the street cannotread it even if unsealed. The passage is interesting as illustrating the diffusion of literary education in Isaiah's time (cf. Jeremiah 5:4-5).
Verse Isaiah 29:11. _I CANNOT; FOR IT IS SEALED _- "I cannot read it; for it is sealed up."] An ancient MS. and the _Septuagint_ have preserved a word here, lost out of the text; לקרות _likroth_, (for...
AND THE VISION OF ALL - The vision of all the prophets; that is, all the revelations which God has made to you (see the note at Isaiah 1:1). The prophet refers not only to his own communications, but...
CHAPTER 29 The Second Woe Against Ariel and the Third Woe 1. _The fall of Ariel (Jerusalem) predicted (Isaiah 29:1)_ 2. _Their enemies dealt with by Jehovah (Isaiah 29:5)_ 3. The people's condition:...
The people are stupefied, for Yahweh has drenched their senses with a trance-slumber (Genesis 2:21 *). He has shut their eyes and muffled their heads. All alike fail to understand the prophetic vision...
OF ALL. of the whole, or altogether. BOOK. scroll, or document, in writing....
AND THE VISION, &C.— These words set forth the consequence of the common blindness of the whole Jewish nation, learned and unlearned, teacher and people; namely, their universal incapacity to interpre...
4. SULLENNESS TEXT: Isaiah 29:9-16 9 Tarry ye and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For Jehovah hath poured...
And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: A...
29:11 vision (b-4) Or 'every vision.'...
WARNINGS TO JUDAH These Chapter s refer to the state of affairs during the reign of Hezekiah, when Palestine was threatened by Assyria, and an influential party in Judah favoured resistance, relying...
‘Books’ in the ancient world were often pieces of skin (like leather) that a person would sew together to make a single long *document. After use, the writer rolled his *document. He then closed it in...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 29 THE FATE OF *JERUSALEM V1 *Woe to *Jerusalem, the city of David! It will not matt...
THE VISION OF ALL... — Better, _the whole vision, i.e.,_ the entire substance of Isaiah’s teaching. The words perhaps imply that this had been committed to writing, but that to the unbelievers they we...
וַ תְּהִ֨י לָכֶ֜ם חָז֣וּת הַ כֹּ֗ל כְּ
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 ------------...
This is the first of a series of declamations concerning the chosen people, and sets forth the purpose of Jehovah in judgment. The message opens with a description of the judgment (verses Isa 29:1-4),...
And the vision of all is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which [men] deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I (i) cannot; for it [is] sealed...
Here are the same, or similar denunciations, as have been before noticed. God's judgments for men's rebellion. And what makes the whole most awful, is, that those judgments and punishments remain unsa...
_THE SEALED BOOK_ ‘And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; fo...
11._Therefore every vision hath become to you. _The Prophet expresses still more clearly what he had formerly said, that the blindness of the Jews will be so great that, though the Lord enlightens the...
Jerusalem is reduced to the last extremity. But this time Jehovah appears for her deliverance, and the multitude of her enemies disappear as a dream of the night. Everything is dark and gloomy as to t...
AND THE VISION OF ALL IS BECOME UNTO YOU AS THE WORDS OF A BOOK THAT IS SEALED,.... The prophecies of all the prophets contained in the Scriptures; or all the prophecies in the book of Isaiah, concern...
And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which [men] deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it [is] sealed:...
_And the vision of all_ Of all your prophets, or every vision; _is unto you as the words of a book that is sealed_ Which no man can read while it is sealed up, as books then sometimes were, being in t...
And the vision of all, that which was revealed by the vision of the true prophets concerning all things, IS BECOME UNTO YOU AS THE WORDS OF A BOOK THAT IS SEALED, of a roll of parchment sealed so that...
THE WOE UPON ARIEL...
BOOK: Or, letter...
9-16 The security of sinners in sinful ways, is cause for lamentation and wonder. The learned men, through prejudice, said that the Divine prophecies were obscure; and the poor urged their want of le...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Isaiah 29:11 vision H2380 words H1697 book H5612 sealed H2856 (H8803) deliver H5414 (H8799) literate H3045 ...
THE UNBELIEVING RESPONSE OF THE MAJORITY TO GOD (ISAIAH 29:9). There are at least two ways of looking at this passage. One is to see it as Isaiah's words prior to God's amazing deliverance, seeking to...
Isaiah 29:11 I. There is something of truth in the representation that the Bible is a sealed book. We always regard it as a standing proof of the Divine origin of the volume, that it is not to be unfo...
CONTENTS: Warnings to Judah and Jerusalem of impending discipline. The blessing after the final deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, David, Abraham. CONCLUSION: Those who are formal and hypocritical in the...
Isaiah 29:1. _Woe to Ariel,_ the lion of God, or the strong lion, for _El_ is often rendered _strong_ or _rock,_ as in Psalms 42:9. “God my rock.” The city of Jerusalem was that strong rock, or strong...
_The vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed_ THE UNIVERSALITY OF SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS What is affirmed in these verses holds so strikingly true of God’s general revela...
_Stay yourselves, and wonder, they are drunken, but not with wine_ SPIRITUAL DRUNKENNESS By spiritual drunkenness (Isaiah 29:9) we are probably to understand unsteadiness of conduct and a want of sp...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 29:1 A WARNING TO JERUSALEM. Expostulation is followed by threats. The prophet is aware that all his preaching to the authorities in Jerusalem (Isaiah 28:14) will be of no avail, an...
Chapter 29, the woe unto Jerusalem. Ariel means the lion of God. It is one of the names for Jerusalem. Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, [the lion of God] the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let th...
Daniel 12:4; Daniel 12:9; Isaiah 8:16; Matthew 11:25; Matthew 13:11;...