_THE PROPHET SHEWETH THE EXTREME FOLLY OF TRUSTING TO EGYPT, AND FORSAKING GOD: HE EXHORTETH TO CONVERSION: HE SHEWETH THE FALL OF ASSYRIA._ _Before Christ 713._ THIS and the following chapter, which are very improperly divided in our English Bible, contain the second part of the third section of... [ Continue Reading ]
YET HE ALSO IS WISE— There are two things which those who placed their confidence in Egypt peculiarly extolled in the Egyptians; namely, their wisdom and strength; particularly the strength of their cavalry. The prophet, comparing the Egyptians in each respect with God, beats down the vanity of thei... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THUS HATH THE LORD SPOKEN UNTO ME, &C.— _For thus hath Jehovah spoken by me,_ &c. Isaiah 31:5. _As birds hovering_ [_over their young_], _so will the Lord of Hosts defend Jerusalem, defending and delivering it, protecting and rescuing it._ Men of a carnal worldly mind, who understood not the sec... [ Continue Reading ]
TURN YE UNTO HIM— This address of the prophet to the Jews is both _monitory_ of the duty, without which this divine benefit of protection and deliverance would not be conferred, and _prophetical,_ wherein he teaches, that God would offer to them, and that they would as a nation at that time receive... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SHALL THE ASSYRIAN FALL— The history of the Assyrian overthrow fully explains these verses. The meaning of the phrase, _His young men shall be discomfited,_ is, that those of Sennacherib's soldiers who should escape in flight, should _melt through fear_ in the way, and should be so dispersed an... [ Continue Reading ]