EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries
Isaiah 25:11
A swimmer who is using his hands is another picture in words. It cleverly describes the proud action to save oneself by self-effort (see Isaiah 16:6). Such action will completely fail.
A swimmer who is using his hands is another picture in words. It cleverly describes the proud action to save oneself by self-effort (see Isaiah 16:6). Such action will completely fail.
Verse Isaiah 25:11. _AS HE THAT SWIMMETH SPREADETH FORTH_ HIS HANDS TO _SWIM_ - "As he that sinketh stretcheth out his hands to swim"] There is great obscurity in this place: some understand God as t...
AND HE SHALL SPREAD FORTH HIS HANDS - The sense is, that Yahweh would stretch out his hands everywhere, prostrating his enemies, and the enemies of his people. Lowth, however, applies this to Moab, an...
CHAPTER 25 Israel's Praise and the Blessings of the Kingdom 1. _The praise of the delivered nation (Isaiah 25:1)_ 2. _The blessing for all nations during the Kingdom (Isaiah 25:6)_ 3. Israel rejoicin...
A SONG OF DELIVERANCE. MOAB IS CRUSHED. Then they will sing, Yahweh is our Saviour, let us exult in His salvation. For Moab shall be ignominiously trampled under foot, and if he tries to keep himself...
SPREAD FORTH HIS HANDS. In the East all swimmers swim "hand over hand", and beat the water with loud noise. Parallel with the beating of straw in Isaiah 25:10. Compare Isaiah 63. AS=ACCORDING AS. sp...
The humiliation of Moab. The heading in Isaiah 25:9 marks this as a distinct section. It might indeed be supposed, from the phrase "in this mountain" in Isaiah 25:10, and the use of future tenses in 1...
The figure of Moab trying to swim in the dung-pit is sufficiently graphic, if somewhat repulsive. _in the midst of them_ should be (as in R.V.) IN THE MIDST THEREOF, i.e. of the dung-pit, although th...
FOR IN THIS MOUNTAIN SHALL THE HAND OF THE LORD— In these verses we have a confirmation of the proposition; and they contain two arguments for the confidence and rejoicing of the people of God; the on...
3. JUBILATION FOR JEHOVAH'S PREDOMINANCE TEXT: Isaiah 25:10-12 10 For in this mountain will the hand of Jehovah rest; and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in t...
And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands. HE SHAL...
25:11 with (b-30) Some have 'notwithstanding.'...
HE SHALL SPREAD] i.e. Moab, who vainly endeavours to save himself. HE SHALL BRING] i.e. Jehovah. SPOILS] RV 'craft.'...
1. THY COUNSELS, etc.] RV 'even counsels of old' (i.e. formed of old) 'in faithfulness and truth.'...
AS HE THAT SWIMMETH SPREADETH FORTH HIS HANDS TO SWIM. — The structure of the sentence leaves it uncertain whether the comparison applies (1) to Jehovah spreading forth His hands with the swimmer’s st...
וּ פֵרַ֤שׂ יָדָיו֙ בְּ קִרְבֹּ֔ו כַּ אֲשֶׁ֛ר
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...
CHAPTER XXX THE RESURRECTION Isaiah 26:14; Isaiah 25:6 GRANTED the pardon, the justice, the Temple and the God, which the returning exiles now enjoyed, the possession of these only makes more painf...
SORROW TURNED TO GLADNESS Isaiah 25:1-12 Here is a song of thanksgiving at the fall of Babylon. When she fell, a sigh of relief passed over the whole world, and strong, terrible nations over which sh...
Immediately following this terrible description is a prophecy which, in the form of praise, declares the activity of Jehovah. The song first offers praise for judgment both in its procedure, as it des...
_Hands. All his exertions and fury will prove useless. (Haydock) --- Moab shall lie prostrate._...
Reader! I must not swell my Poor Man's Commentary: I only, therefore; detain you, to observe on these verses, that the Lord hath uniformly, through all the Bible, connected the subject of destruction...
11._And he shall spread out. _The Prophet now explains and confirms the former statement; but he employs a different metaphor, by which he means, that the Lord will spread out his hand to the innermos...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 25 AND 26. Chapter s 25 and 26 take the form of a song, in which the effect of God's intervention is celebrated. Let us observe its principal subjects. God is...
AND HE SHALL SPREAD FORTH HIS HANDS IN THE MIDST OF THEM,.... In the midst of Moab, in the midst of the enemies of the church of God; and so it denotes the utter destruction of them; for the spreading...
And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth [his hands] to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands. Ver. 11...
Isa. 25:11. "And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim;" which was the posture in which Christ was crucified in. Isa. 30:27-33...
_And he_ Either, 1st, Moab, who, being plunged into a sea of troubles, shall endeavour to swim out of it, but to no purpose; or, 2d, The Lord, (who is designed by this pronoun _he_, both in the latter...
And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, Moab, representing the hostile forces of the world, trying to save himself by a desperate struggle, AS HE THAT SWIMMETH SPREADETH FORTH HIS BA...
PRAISE FOR THE SUBJECTION OF MOAB...
9-12 With joy and praise will those entertain the glad tidings of the Redeemer, who looked for him; and with a triumphant song will glorified saints enter into the joy of their Lord. And it is not in...
HE; either, 1. Moab, who being plunged into a sea of troubles, shall endeavour to swim out of it, but to no purpose; or rather, 2. The Lord, who is designed by this very pronoun he, both in the latte...
Isaiah 25:11 out H6566 (H8765) hands H3027 midst H7130 swimmer H7811 (H8802) out H6566 (H8762) swim...
CONTENTS: Triumphs of the coming Kingdom age. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: God should be exalted by His people for the wonderful things He has done, and is to do, according to His promises,...
Isaiah 25:2. _A defenced city a ruin._ This city, in the next words, is called _a palace of strangers;_ therefore it was a great city. In the critics we find nothing but conjectures, as Samaria Ar of...
_And He shall spread forth His hands in the midst of them_ EXPLANATION In Isaiah 25:11 _a_ the figure is Moab, vainly struggling to save himself in the water of the dung pit; in 11 _b_ “he” is, of c...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 25:9 God humbles human pride. ⇐ ⇔...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 25:1 ISAIAH'S SONG OF PRAISE ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF GOD'S KINGDOM. AS in Isai
But O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth (Isaiah 25:1). In other words, "God, I'm goi...
Colossians 2:15; Daniel 4:37; Isaiah 10:33; Isaiah 13:11; Isaiah 14:2
He — The Lord, whose power they shall be no more able to resist, than the waters can resist a man that swims. Spread — To smite and destroy them. The spoils — With all their wealth which they have gai...