Isaiah 24:1-23
2. All class distinctions are obliterated and confused.... [ Continue Reading ]
2. All class distinctions are obliterated and confused.... [ Continue Reading ]
DEFILED] i.e. desecrated by bloodshed (Numbers 35:33). EVERLASTING COVENANT] The phrase seems to allude to Genesis 9:16, the covenant with Noah and his sons. The bloodshed, upon which the great world-empires were founded, was a violation of this primitive covenant. 7-9. The meaning is that every fo... [ Continue Reading ]
CONFUSION] or, 'chaos' (Genesis 1:2), so called because of the desolation awaiting it. NO MAN, etc.] the entrance being blocked with ruins,... [ Continue Reading ]
CRYING FOR, etc.] i.e. 'because of wine, the vintage having failed (Joel 1:5).... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN.. PEOPLE] RY 'For.. peoples.' Omit 'there shall be.'... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY] i.e. the escaped remnant, figuratively described in Isaiah 24:13 : cp. Isaiah 17:6. THE MAJESTY] as shown in their deliverance. THEY SHALL CRY.. FROM THE SEA] i.e. the dispersed remnant shall raise their cry of praise from the far West. The sea, as usual, denotes the Mediterranean.... [ Continue Reading ]
FIRES] RV 'east.' Songs of praise arise both in E. and W. (the isles).... [ Continue Reading ]
GLORY, etc.] i.e. splendid is the lot of the righteous. MY LEANNESS, etc.] RV 'I pine away, I pine away, woe is me! 'Songs of joy are premature; the barbariair has yet to complete the desolation. 17F. The desolation yet to come.... [ Continue Reading ]
WINDOWS, etc.] a judgment like the deluge (Genesis 7:11).... [ Continue Reading ]
REMOVED, etc.] RV 'moved to and fro like a hut.'... [ Continue Reading ]
HOST, etc.] i.e. the guardian spirits of the nations (Daniel 10:13; Daniel 12:1), who are responsible for their respective nations, and whose fate is bound up with theirs.... [ Continue Reading ]
VISITED] i.e. favourably, and set free.... [ Continue Reading ]
The prophet has passed in thought to the final convulsion of nature, and the manifestation of Jehovah's kingdom in all its glory. THE COMING JUDGMENT AND ESTABLISHMENT OF JEHOVAH'S KINGDOM The subject is the overthrow of a power hostile to God's people, with a description of the deliverance of the... [ Continue Reading ]