Isaiah 14 - Introduction
_GOD'S MERCIFUL RESTORATION OF ISRAEL: THEIR TRIUMPH IN THE FALL OF THE KING OF BABYLON. GOD'S PURPOSE AGAINST ASSYRIA. PALESTINE IS THREATENED._ _Before Christ 712._... [ Continue Reading ]
_GOD'S MERCIFUL RESTORATION OF ISRAEL: THEIR TRIUMPH IN THE FALL OF THE KING OF BABYLON. GOD'S PURPOSE AGAINST ASSYRIA. PALESTINE IS THREATENED._ _Before Christ 712._... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE LORD WILL HAVE MERCY— The prophet here continues his discourse concerning Babylon, wherein we have a continuation of the prophesy concerning the fall of the Babylonish empire and its rulers, Isaiah 14:1 and a prophesy interwoven, concerning the great slaughter which the king of Assyria shoul... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU SHALT TAKE UP THIS PROVERB— The latter member of this discourse is employed in a figurative enarration of the fall of the kings of Babylon, Isaiah 14:4 and of Babylon itself, Isaiah 14:22. The prophet introduces his prediction concerning the fall of the kings of Babylon by a poetic or dramatic... [ Continue Reading ]
_ISAIAH 14:22_. _For I will rise,_ &c. Thus the prophet ends this remarkable song, and again informs us, what he had set forth in the first part of this prophesy, that the judgment should not rest in the royal house, but should pass to all the other inhabitants of Babylon; who should also be wholly... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD OF HOSTS HATH SWORN— This period, though of a peculiar and different, is not of a totally foreign argument: it contains the epilogue and conclusion of the foregoing prophesy. As what the prophet foretold concerning the destruction of Babylon might justly seem great beyond expectation, he wa... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE YEAR THAT KING AHAZ DIED, WAS THIS BURDEN— We have here the second sermon of this second book; in which the prophet denounces judgment against the Philistines, exulting in the prosperous state of their affairs under the reign of Ahaz, and conceiving, on the death of that king, when this proph... [ Continue Reading ]
REJOICE NOT, &C.— This prophesy against the Philistines is conceived in a form familiar with Isaiah and the other prophets, of an immediate address to them, wherein they are admonished to refrain from joy either on account of the death of Ahaz, which might seem advantageous to the state of their aff... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE FIRST-BORN OF THE POOR— In these words we have the consequence of the destruction of the Philistines to be effected by Hezekiah, and a more distinct declaration of the judgment itself. The consequence was to be the secure and peaceful habitation of Judah, in those parts especially which had... [ Continue Reading ]
HOWL, O GATE; &C.— _Howl, O gate; cry, O city; all of thee is dissolved, O Palestine; for,_ &c.—_And there shall not be a solitary one among his legions._ Vitringa: see also Bishop Lowth. In this latter part, a new calamity is denounced upon Palestine, to be brought upon it by the Assyrians; and in... [ Continue Reading ]