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Isaiah 1:8
‘An empty hut alone in a field’ refers to a temporary shelter of branches. Such a shelter protected a *look-out as he guarded the crops. After the harvest, people would leave the shelter to fall into pieces.
‘An empty hut alone in a field’ refers to a temporary shelter of branches. Such a shelter protected a *look-out as he guarded the crops. After the harvest, people would leave the shelter to fall into pieces.
Verse Isaiah 1:8. _AS A COTTAGE IN A VINEYARD_ - "As a shed in a vineyard"] A little temporary hut covered with boughs, straw, turf, or the like materials, for a shelter from the heat by day, and the...
AND THE DAUGHTER OF ZION - Zion, or Sion, was the name of one of the hills on which the city of Jerusalem was built. On this hill formerly stood the city of the Jebusites, and when David took it from...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS The reader will find that every chapter has been analyzed as to its contents. We have not made copious annotations, because the three lectures on the book of Isaiah as found a...
Let heaven and earth hear with amazement Yahweh's complaint. He has reared His people with the kindliest care, and _they_ (pathetic emphasis) have repaid Him with unfilial ingratitude. Ox and ass find...
COTTAGE. a booth, made of reeds. Compare Job 27:18. A LODGE.. platform on four poles, sheltered by leaves or sacking. Left to the weather at the close of harvest....
A LODGE IN A GARDEN OF CUCUMBERS, &C.— See Job 27:18....
I. PERVERSITY AND PROPHET - Chapter S 1 - 6 CHAPTER ONE A. THE IMPEACHING ACCUSATION 1. CONTROVERSY DECLARED Isaiah 1:1-20 a. JEHOVAH'S COMPLAINT TEXT: Isaiah 1:1-9 1 The vision of Isaiah the so...
And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. THE DAUGHTER OF ZION - the city () Jerusalem and its inhabitants (); daughter,...
COTTAGE.. LODGE] solitary huts where watchmen lived: cp. Lamentations 2:6 RV. The figures express isolation. Owing to the occupation and devastation of the country by invaders the city is left helples...
JEHOVAH'S ARRAIGNMENT OF HIS PEOPLE This chapter is general in character, and much of it (e.g. Isaiah 1:10) might refer to almost any period. This general character of the prophecy renders it especial...
THE DAUGHTER OF ZION. — The phrase stands, as everywhere (Psalms 45:12; Lamentations 2:8; Micah 4:10), for the ideal city personified. IS LEFT AS A COTTAGE IN A VINEYARD... — The “hut,” or “_booth,”_...
וְ נֹותְרָ֥ה בַת ־צִיֹּ֖ון כְּ סֻכָּ֣ה בְ
CHAPTER I THE ARGUMENT OF THE LORD AND ITS CONCLUSION Isaiah 1:1 -His General Preface THE first chapter of the Book of Isaiah owes its position not to its date, but to its character. It was publishe...
THE INGRATITUDE OF A FAVORED NATION Isaiah 1:1-9 This chapter forms the preface to the prophecies of Isaiah. It is a clear and concise statement of the points at issue between Jehovah and His people....
Isaiah was a prophet to Judah. He exercised his ministry wholly within her borders, and with a view to her correction and comfort. His burdens of the nations were uttered concerning those nations whic...
And the daughter of (o) Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. (o) That is, Jerusalem....
_Cucumbers. Or melons, which grew in the fields, and huts were erected for guards, till they were gathered._...
How affecting are these verses! It is as if God paused over the state of his church. Their sin, like an epidemic disease, was universal. It did not break out in one or two instances of transgression;...
8._And the daughter of Zion shall be left _(20) _as a cottage in a vineyard _He alludes to a custom which exists in France, that the vinekeepers rear _a cottage _for themselves when the grapes begin t...
Isaiah 1 begins with a testimony to the sad condition of the people. They were all wounds and corruption. It was useless to chastise them any more. Their ceremonies were an abomination to Jehovah. He...
AND THE DAUGHTER OF ZION IS LEFT AS A COTTAGE IN THE VINEYARD,.... The Targum is, "after they have got in the vintage.'' A cottage in the vineyard was a booth, as the word e signifies, which was ere...
And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. Ver. 8. _And the daughter of Zion._] Jerusalem, which is called the daughter of Z...
_Your country is desolate_ “The description of the ruined and desolate state of the country, in these verses,” says Bishop Lowth, “does not suit with any part of the prosperous times of Uzziah and Jot...
THE DESOLATION OF ZION...
And the daughter of Zion, the city of Jerusalem with its inhabitants, IS LEFT AS A COTTAGE IN A VINEYARD, the shack of a watchman, offering meager shelter, AS A LODGE IN A GARDEN OF CUCUMBERS, a simil...
1-9 Isaiah signifies, "The salvation of the Lord;" a very suitable name for this prophet, who prophesies so much of Jesus the Saviour, and his salvation. God's professing people did not know or consi...
THE DAUGHTER OF ZION, i.e. Zion, or Jerusalem; for these two names are promiscuously used of the same place; the name of _daughter_ being frequently given to cities or countries. Thus _the daughter of...
Isaiah 1:8 daughter H1323 Zion H6726 left H3498 (H8738) booth H5521 vineyard H3754 hut H4412 cucumbers H4750 besieged...
ISAIAH OUTLINES THE MESSAGE HE IS BRINGING (ISAIAH 1:1). This introductory message is also presented in balanced chiastic form. a He calls on Creation to be aware of God's judgment on His people (Is...
HE CALLS ON CREATION TO BE AWARE OF GOD'S JUDGMENT ON HIS PEOPLE (ISAIAH 1:2). The book begins with a chiasmus, a pattern which had been commonly used in the Pentateuch, and which has also been depic...
THE MAJORITY ARE LIKE SODOM AND GOMORRAH (ISAIAH 1:4). Isaiah now describes the condition of Judah, which would include refugees from Israel. This can be analysed as follows: a Ah, sinful nation, a p...
Isaiah 1:1. _The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah._ During the time in which Isaiah prop...
Isaiah 1:1. _The vision of Isaiah the son of Amos, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth...
This is a chapter which, I think, teaches an important lesson to those of us who desire the salvation of men, for it shows us how God sets about that work. He begins by exhibiting the sinner's sin to...
Isaiah 1:2. _Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his ma...
May we be instructed of the Holy Ghost while we read this inspired Scripture! Isaiah 1:1. _The vision of Isaiah the son of Amos, which he saw_ Prophets were called seers, they saw what they were cal...
CONTENTS: Charge against Israel for their ingratitude and degeneration. Call to repentance and reformation. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: The backslidings of those who have professed relations...
Isaiah 1:1. _The vision._ What the prophet saw with the eyes of his mind, concerning the state of Judah and Jerusalem, his ministry being chiefly confined to the kingdom of Judea. _Isaiah, the son of...
_A cottage in a vineyard_ A LODGE IN A GARDEN The true point of the comparison will not appear until the crop is over, and the lodge forsaken by the keeper. Then the poles fall down or lean every wa...
_Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken_ GOD FINDS VINDICATION IN NATURE I well remember two funerals going out of my house within a few brief months during my residence in...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 1:1 Introduction: “Ah, Sinful Nation!” The prophet rebukes God’s people and calls them to obey God’s word. He promises miraculous grace beyond judgment....
TOTAL DEPRAVITY Isaiah 1:5. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores;...
PART I.—EARLIER PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH (CH. 1-35.) SECTION I.—THE GREAT ARRAIGNMENT (Isaiah 1:1.). EXPOSITION Isaiah 1:1
The book of Isaiah is a marvelous book of prophecy. Of course, it is the longest book of prophecy in the Bible, and it would seem that God gave to Isaiah a clearer vision of the redemptive work of Jes...
Isaiah 10:32; Isaiah 37:22; Isaiah 4:4; Isaiah 62:11; Isaiah 8:8;...
Is left — Is left solitary, all the neighbouring villages and country round about it being laid waste....