AND WHAT WILL YE DO - The prophet here proceeds to denounce the judgment, or punishment, that would follow the crimes specified in the previous verses. That punishment was the invasion of the land by...
CHAPTER 10 The Assyrian, His invasion of Immanuel's land, and His end 1. _The first four verses belong to the preceding chapter. A description of the Assyrian enemy (Isaiah 10:5)_ 2. _The overthrow o...
ISAIAH 9:8 TO ISAIAH 10:4. YAHWEH SMITES EPHRAIM WITH STROKE AFTER STROKE. It is generally agreed that Isaiah 5:26 formed the closing strophe of this poem (p. 440). The date is probably before the coa...
DESOLATION. storm. LEAVE. secure, or put in safe keeping. Hebrew. _'azab,_. _Homonym_ with two meanings. See note on Exodus 23:5. GLORY. honour....
Fourth strophe. Most critics consider that at this point the scene changes from Samaria to Jerusalem; (1) because the internal condition of Ephraim has already been depicted in the last stages of diss...
Isaiah 9:8 to Isaiah 10:4 (+ Isaiah 5:25-30) Jehovah's hand stretched out in wrath over His people. An oracle against North Israel The key-note of the prophecy is given in the recurrent refrain...
The unjust lawgivers are reminded that there is a day of revision, when they must answer to the Supreme Judge. _And what will ye do?_ cf. Hosea 9:5. _day of visitation_ cf. Hosea 9:7; Micah 7:4;...
WOE UNTO THEM THAT DECREE UNRIGHTEOUS DECREES, &C.— We have in the two first verses the fourth fault, and in the third and fourth the punishment. The fault complained of is, the injustice and the iniq...
CHAPTER TEN D. PRESERVATION IN IMMANUEL 1. SOCIAL INJUSTICE TEXT: Isaiah 10:1-4 1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness; 2 to turn aside the n...
And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? WHAT WILL YE DO? - what way of esc...
DIVINE JUDGMENTS ON THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL This section relates throughout to the kingdom of Israel. It belongs to the same period as the Chapter s immediately preceding, and treats of the ruin which I...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 10 GOD’S JUDGEMENT AGAINST EVIL LAWS V1 *Woe to those who make crue...
AND WHAT WILL YE DO IN THE DAY OF VISITATION...? — The question was not without a certain touch of irony. Had those corrupt judges asked themselves what they would do when the Supreme Judge should cal...
וּ מַֽה ־תַּעֲשׂוּ֙ לְ יֹ֣ום פְּקֻדָּ֔ה וּ
CHAPTER VII THE MESSIAH WE have now reached that point of Isaiah's prophesying at which the Messiah becomes the most conspicuous figure on his horizon. Let us take advantage of it to gather into one...
SOCIAL INJUSTICE CONDEMNED Isaiah 9:18-21; Isaiah 10:1-4 The terrible indictment of the preceding paragraphs is continued here. Notice the awful monotony of the refrain, Isaiah 9:12; Isaiah 9:17; Is...
Here we have the message of hope (verses Isa 9:1-7) in the glorious picture of the Coming Deliverer, with the equally glorious record of the results of His Coming. It is one of the greatest Messianic...
And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation [which] shall come from (b) far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your (c) glory? (b) That is, from Assyria....
_Afar. When Salmanasar shall come from Ninive to destroy Samaria, to punish the people for their idolatry (Calmet) and oppressions. (Haydock) --- Glory. Golden calves, (Osee viii. 5., and x. 5.) or po...
Amidst general sins, with which both the people of God, and the oppressors of the Lord's people, are said to abound, the Prophet is pointing to some special instances of the kind, which marked the hig...
3._And what will you do? _Here the Prophet severely threatens princes, who were careless and indolent amidst their distresses, as men intoxicated by prosperity are wont to despise haughtily every dang...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9:8-21, 10, 11, AND 12. In Isaiah 9:8 the Spirit, having given the great leading facts as to Messiah, Immanuel, resumes the general history of Israel without...
AND WHAT WILL YE DO IN THE DAY OF VISITATION,.... Not in a way of grace and mercy, but of wrath and anger, as the following clause explains it, when God should come and punish them for their sins; and...
And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation [which] shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? Ver. 3. _And what will ye do in the...
_What will ye do_ To save yourselves? _in the day of visitation?_ When I shall come to visit you in wrath, as the next words limit the expression. _The desolation which shall come from far_ From the A...
And what will ye do in the day of visitation, when God will visit their injustice upon them, AND IN THE DESOLATION, the sudden storm, crash, and collapse, WHICH SHALL COME FROM FAR? It is here hinted...
WOE UPON TYRANTS...
1-4 These verses are to be joined with the foregoing chapter. Woe to the superior powers that devise and decree unrighteous decrees! And woe to the inferior officers that draw them up, and enter them...
WHAT WILL YE DO TO SAVE YOURSELVES? In the day of visitation: when I shall come to visit you in wrath, as the next words limit it, and as this phrase is oft used; although sometimes it signifies a vis...
Isaiah 10:3 do H6213 (H8799) day H3117 punishment H6486 desolation H7722 come H935 (H8799) afar H4801 flee...
CHAPTER ISAIAH 10:1 THE FOURTH CHASTISEMENT. BAD LEADERSHIP, RANK INJUSTICE, AND CAPTIVITY (ISAIAH 10:1). Analysis. · Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write troubl...
Isaiah 10:3 What the world's glory consists of is readily apprehended. That a man be conspicuous among and above his fellow-mortals; be a more important object, as if a larger measure of being, than a...
CONTENTS: The commission to invade Judah and its execution. Threatening of the invaders ruin after serving God's purpose. New encouragement given to God's people. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: God som...
The first four verses, are properly a part of the preseding chapter, and contain a severe reproof of the magistrates who wrested the judgment of the poor and needy. Isaiah 10:5. _Oh Assyrian._ Hebrews...
_And what will ye do in the day of visitation?_ THE DAY OF VISITATION In Scripture style the season in which God is pleased to draw near to a person or people, that He may accomplish various importa...
_Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees_ CRIME UNDER COLOUR OF LAW The prophet has described the sins of Ephraim in a general manner; but on the mention of Judah he proceeds to denounce what...
THE DAY OF VISITATION Isaiah 10:3. _And what will ye do in the day of visitation, &c._ These questions were addressed to men who were living lives of ungodliness, and who were rich and strong in the...
LEGALISED INJUSTICE Isaiah 10:1. _Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, &c._ I. An indictment against wicked magistrates. II. A challenge. III. A sentence. I. Magistrates and rulers are answ...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 10:1 The prophecy begun in Isaiah 9:8 terminates with this stanza, which contains a warning against injustice and oppression, addressed to Israel and Judah equally, and accompanied...
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, tha...
1 Peter 2:12; 2 Kings 7:15; 2 Kings 7:6; Deuteronomy 28:49; Ezek
From far — From the Assyrians. This he adds, because the Israelites, having weakened the Jews and being in amity with the Assyrians their next neighbours, were secure. Leave — To be kept safe for your...