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Isaiah 13:3-5
This is another example of God’s control over foreign nations, on behalf of his people. These nations will be his agents, who carry out his judgement.
This is another example of God’s control over foreign nations, on behalf of his people. These nations will be his agents, who carry out his judgement.
Verse Isaiah 13:3. _I HAVE COMMANDED MY SANCTIFIED ONES_] מקדשי _mekuddashai_, the persons _consecrated_ to this very purpose. Nothing can be plainer than that the verb כדש _kadash_, "to make holy," s...
I HAVE COMMANDED - This is the language of God in reference to those who were about to destroy Babylon. “He” claimed the control and direction of all their movements; and though the command was not un...
2. THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS AND THE FUTURE DAY OF JEHOVAH (13-27) CHAPTER 13 The Burden of Babylon 1. _Jehovah's call to the judgment of Babylon (Isaiah 13:1)_ 2. _The day of Jehovah: When Babylo...
ISAIAH 13:1 TO ISAIAH 14:23. THE UTTER RUIN OF BABYLON AND TRIUMPHAL ODE OVER HER MONARCH'S DEATH. Historical conditions are here presupposed entirely different from those of Isaiah's time. The subjec...
SANCTIFIED ONES. separated ones. Here. the armies of the Medes and Persians. Compare Isaiah 44:28; Isaiah 45:1. MIGHTY ONES. heroes. Hebrew. _gibbor._ App-14. THEM THAT REJOICE IN MY HIGHNESS. my pr...
Jehovah musters His hosts....
Jehovah speaks. _my sanctified_(or CONSECRATED) _ones_ In ancient times a campaign was inaugurated with religious ceremonies (1 Samuel 13:9; Jeremiah 22:7; Jeremiah 51:28 [R.V. marg.]) and each warrio...
LIFT YE UP A BANNER— In this beginning of the discourse we have, _first,_ a figurative declaration of the causes, principal as well as instrumental, of the judgment to be brought upon Babylon; wherein...
III. PEOPLE AND PAGANS - Chapter S 13 - 23 A. IMPLACABLE EMPIRE CH. 13-14 CHAPTER THIRTEEN 1. BABYLON a. PREDICTION OF JUDGMENT TEXT: Isaiah 13:1-8 1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son...
I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness. I HAVE COMMANDED MY SANCTIFIED ONES - the Median and Persian soldiers s...
13:3 men (i-13) _ Gibbor_ . see Note, Job 3:3 ....
1. BURDEN] The corresponding verb means 'to lift up' (_a_) a load, (_b_) the voice (cp. Isaiah 3:7; Isaiah 42:2; Isaiah 42:11), used of Balaam lifting up his voice in oracular utterance ...
SANCTIFIED ONES] RV 'consecrated ones,' i.e. warriors. The thought may be that the war is a holy one, Babylon's destroyers being the ministers of Jehovah's vengeance....
I HAVE COMMANDED MY SANCTIFIED ONES... — The word is applied even to the fierce tribes of the future destroyers, as being appointed, or _consecrated,_ by Jehovah for that special work. The thought and...
אֲנִ֥י צִוֵּ֖יתִי לִ מְקֻדָּשָׁ֑י גַּ֣ם קָרָ֤אתִי...
BOOK 5 PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary with that - we...
We now commence the second circle of the first division of our book, in which are contained Isaiah's prophecies concerning the nations and the world. The first describes the doom of Babylon. Whereas t...
I have commanded my (c) sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for my anger, [even] them that rejoice in my (d) highness. (c) That is, prepared and appointed to execute my judgments. (d)...
_Sanctioned. The Medes and Persians were appointed by God to punish Babylon. (Worthington)_...
In the figurative language of prophecy, the Lord describes the destruction of Babylon. The army that shall come against Babylon, the Lord calls his sanctified ones, and his mighty ones. By sanctified,...
3._I have commanded my sanctified ones. _(198) Here the Prophet introduces the Lord as speaking and issuing his commands. He calls the Medes and Persians _sanctified ones_, that is, those whom he has...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14. With chapter 12 one division of the whole book closes. That which commences with chapter 13 continues to the end of chapter 27, which describes th...
I HAVE COMMANDED MY SANCTIFIED ONES,.... The Medes and Persians, so called, not because sanctified by the Spirit of God, or made holy persons, through the regenerating and renewing grace of God, or pu...
I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, [even] them that rejoice in my highness. Ver. 3. _I have commanded my sanctified ones,_] _i.e., _ I have by my s...
_Lift up a banner_ To gather soldiers together for this expedition; _upon the high mountain_ Whence it may be discerned at a considerable distance. _Exalt the voice unto them_ To the Medes, named Isai...
GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE PROPHECIES OF WRATH...
I have commanded My sanctified ones, Jehovah Himself summoning the warriors consecrated to His work, I HAVE ALSO CALLED MY MIGHTY ONES FOR MINE ANGER, the heroes who should carry out the purposes of H...
1-5 The threatenings of God's word press heavily upon the wicked, and are a sore burden, too heavy for them to bear. The persons brought together to lay Babylon waste, are called God's sanctified or...
MY SANCTIFIED ONES; the Medes and Persians, fitly so called, because they were solemnly designed and set apart by God for his own service, and for this holy work of executing his just vengeance upon t...
Isaiah 13:3 commanded H6680 (H8765) ones H6942 (H8794) called H7121 (H8804) ones H1368 rejoice H5947 exaltation...
ORACLE AGAINST BABYLON Yahweh Raises His Forces For The Destruction of Babylon The first burden borne by Isaiah was the burden of Babylon, a heavy burden indeed. And it begins with the calling togeth...
CONTENTS: Prophecy concerning last days, when punishment will be visited upon the nations, and Israel shall pass through the Great Tribulation. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Men have their da...
In the thirteen Chapter s which follow, the prophet, like a watchman, raises his voice, and denounces woes against all the surrounding nations, and finally against his own country. Isaiah 13:1. _The b...
_The burden of Babylon_ THE PROPHET’S BURDEN Whenever we find the word “burden” in this association it means oracle, a speech of doom; it is never connected with blessing, hope, enlarged opportunity...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 13:1 God’s Judgment and Grace for the World: “We Have a Strong City.” Isaiah stresses God’s complete power over all the nations. God rules history to achieve his goals....
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 13:3 MY CONSECRATED ONES. God uses the enemies of Babylon for his own purpose (see Isaiah 10:5;...
EXPOSITION THE BURDEN OF BABYLON. The series of prophecies which commences with this chapter and continues to the close of Isaiah 23:1; is connected together by the word _massa_, burden. It has been a...
Now as we move into chapter 13 and he speaks of the burden of Babylon which Isaiah saw, you remember that we mentioned when we started the prophecy of Isaiah that in many of the prophecies, there was...
Ezra 1:1; Ezra 6:1; Ezra 7:12; Isaiah 23:11; Isaiah 44:27;...
Sanctified ones — The Medes and Persians, so called, because they were set apart by God, for this holy work of executing his just vengeance. Mighty ones — Those whom I have made mighty for this work....