CHAPTER XXIV _Dreadful judgments impending over the people of God_, 1-4. _Particular enumeration of the horrid impieties which provoked_ _the Divine vengeance_, 5, 6. _Great political wretchedness of the transgressors_, 7-12. _The calamities shall be so great that only a small remnant_ _shall... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 24:4. _THE WORLD LANGUISHETH_] The world is the same with the land; that is, the kingdoms of Judah and Israel, _orbis_ _Israeliticus_. Isaiah 13:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 24:5. _THE LAWS _- "The law"] תורה _torah_, singular: so read the _Septuagint, Syriac_, and _Chaldee_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 24:6. _ARE BURNED _- "Are destroyed"] For חרו _charu_, read חרבו _charebu_. See the _Septuagint, Syriac, Chaldee_, and _Symmachus_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 24:8. _THE MIRTH_, c.] שאון _sheon, the noise_. גאון geon, _the pride_, is the reading of _three_ of _De Rossi's_ MSS., with the _Septuagint_ and _Arabic_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 24:9. _STRONG DRINK _- "Palm wine"] This is the proper meaning of the word _shechar_, σικερα. Isaiah 5:11. All enjoyment shall cease: the sweetest wine shall become bitter to their taste.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 24:11. _ALL JOY IS DARKENED _- "All gladness is passed away"] For ערבה _arebah, darkened_, read עברה _aberah, passed away_, transposing a letter. _Houbigant, Secker_. _Five_ of Dr. _Kennicott's_ and _five_ of _De Rossi's_ MSS., several ancient, add כל _col, all_, after משוש _mesos_: the... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 24:14. _THEY SHALL LIFT UP THEIR VOICE_ - "But these shall lift up their voice"] That is, they that escaped out of these calamities. The great distresses brought upon Israel and Judah drove the people away, and dispersed them all over the neighbouring countries: they fled to Egypt, to... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 24:15. _IN THE ISLES OF THE SEA_ - "In the distant coasts of the sea."] For בארים _beurim, in the valleys_, I suppose we ought to read באיים _beiyim, in the isles_, which is in a great degree justified by the repetition of the word in the next member of the sentence, with the addition... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 24:16. _BUT I SAID_] The prophet speaks in the person of the inhabitants of the land still remaining there, who should be pursued by Divine vengeance, and suffer repeated distresses from the inroads and depredations of their powerful enemies. Agreeably to what he said before in a genera... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 24:17. _FEAR, AND THE PIT_ - "The terror, the pit"] If they escape one calamity, another shall overtake them. "As if a man should flee from a lion, and a bear should overtake him: Or should betake himself to his house, and lean his hand on the wall, And a serpent should bite him.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 24:18. _OUT OF THE MIDST OF THE PIT _- "From the pit"] For מתוך _mittoch, from the midst of_, a MS. reads מן _min, from_, as it is in Jeremiah 48:44; and so likewise the _Septuagint, Syriac_, and _Vulgate_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 24:19. _THE EARTH _- "The land"] הארץ _haarets, forte delendum_ ה he, ut ex praecedente ortum. Vid. seqq. - _Secker_. "Probably the ה _he_, in הארץ _haarets_, should be blotted out, as having arisen from the preceding.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 24:20. _LIKE A COTTAGE _- "Like a lodge for a night"] Isaiah 1:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 24:21. _ON HIGH - UPON THE EARTH._] That is, the ecclesiastical and civil polity of the Jews, which shall be destroyed. The nation shall continue in a state of depression and dereliction for a long time. The image seems to be taken from the practice of the great monarchs of that time; w... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 24:23. _BEFORE HIS ANCIENTS GLORIOUSLY_] _In the sigt of their_ _olde men he schal ben glorified._ Old MS. BIBLE. "The figurative language of the prophets is taken from the analogy between the _world natural_ and an empire or kingdom considered as a _world politic_. Accordingly the wh... [ Continue Reading ]