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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Isaiah 30:7

Verse Isaiah 30:7. Their strength is to sit still - "Rahab the Inactive."] The two last words, הם שבת hem shabeth, joined into one, make the participle pihel המשבת hammeshabbeth. I find the learned Professor Doederlein, in his version of Isaiah, and note on this place, has given the same conjecture; which he speaks of as having been formerly published by him. A concurrence of different persons in the same conjecture adds to it a greater degree of probability.

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See also Isaiah 30:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR THE EGYPTIANS SHALL HELP IN VAIN - That is, if they enter into the alliance, they shall not be able to defend you from the invader. The other member of the sentence would seem to imply that they w...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 30 The Fourth Woe Against Alliance With Egypt 1. _The alliance and its failure (Isaiah 30:1)_ 2. _The written table against the rebellious people (Isaiah 30:8)_ 3. Jehovah's word of encourage...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    This passage is introduced by a strange title, Oracle concerning the beasts of the Negeb, _i.e._ either the beasts who carry the treasure to Egypt (Isaiah 30:6_ b_), or the wild creatures that infest...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HAVE. CRIED CONCERNING THIS. have. called (or named) her. THEIR STRENGTH, &C. Hebrew Egypt sitting still (and thus not giving the help that was being sought). Rahab. pride, or strength, is put by Fig...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _For the Egyptians … purpose_ Render AND AS FOR EGYPT THEIR HELP IS VAIN AND EMPTY. Cf. Isaiah 30:3_; Isaiah 30:5_. _have I cried concerning this_ Better, HAVE I CALLED HER (R.V.). _Their strength_is...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    These verses are marked as an independent oracle by a heading in the enigmatic style of those in ch. 21, 22. Some commentators regard the title as an editorial note which has crept into the text from...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 903 CONFIDENCE IN GOD RECOMMENDED Isaiah 30:7. _Therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is, to sit still._ NOTHING is more strongly inculcated in the Holy Scriptures than tr...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR HIS PRINCES WERE AT ZOAN— _When his princes—to Hanes,_ Isaiah 30:5 _they were,_ &c. Isaiah 30:6 _as to the burden of the beasts southward, unto a land—from whence come the lioness and stout lion_—...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. FRIENDS THAT FETTER, Chapter S 30-31 1. SHAME TEXT: Isaiah 30:1-14 1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, that take counsel, but not of me; and that make a league, but not of my Spirit...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still. FOR THE EGYPTIANS SHALL HELP IN VAIN, AND TO NO PURPOSE - Hebrew, '...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    30:7 Arrogance, (b-16) Heb. _ Rahab_ , a name of Egypt....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-7. The Egyptian alliance is profitless. 8-11. The perversity of Judah, 12-17. and its disastrous consequences. 18-26. There is a glorious prospect for the repentant people. 27-33 But first Jehov...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THIS] I.E. Jerusalem (according to AV), who, instead of thus seeking foreign aid, ought to rest confident in Jehovah's protection (Isaiah 30:15). But more probably the reference is to Egypt. 'Therefor...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Rahab is another name for Leviathan (see my note on Isaiah 27:1). GOD’S PEOPLE REFUSE TO LISTEN V8 Then the *Lord told Isaiah to cut all the letters of this message on a flat stone. And he was to w...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    CONCERNING THIS. — Better, _it,_ or _her — i.e.,_ Egypt. THEIR STRENGTH IS TO SIT STILL. — The Authorised version fairly gives the meaning: “Their boasted strength will be found absolute inaction.” bu...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ מִצְרַ֕יִם הֶ֥בֶל וָ רִ֖יק יַעְזֹ֑רוּ לָכֵ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 3 ORATIONS ON THE EGYPTIAN INTRIGUES AND ORACLES ON FOREIGN NATIONS 705-702 B.C. Isaiah: 29 About 703 30 A little later 31 A little later 32:1-8 Later 32:9-20 Date uncertain ------------...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    FATAL RELIANCE ON HUMAN AID Isaiah 30:1-17 Toward the close of the 8th century, b.c. Jerusalem sent ambassadors to seek help from Egypt against Assyria, in distinct defiance of God's repeated warning...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This chapter contains two distinct messages. In the first, the prophet denounces an alliance with Egypt (verses Isa 30:1-26), and in the second foretells the destruction of Assyria (verses Isa 30:27-3...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried (e) concerning this, Their strength (f) [is] to sit still. (e) That is, to Jerusalem. (f) And not to come to and fro t...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Cried. Hebrew, "called it Rahab, (or pride) it is rest." The people are indolent, though they will make great promises. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    These are parts of the same burden, and not unlike what was said before concerning Egypt, under the figure of the land shadowing with wings, Isaiah 18:1....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    7._Surely the Egyptians are vanity. _(288) This verse contains the explanation of the former statement; for he repeats and threatens the same thing, that the Egyptians, after having worn out the Jews...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The effect of this unbelief is manifested in chapter 30. The people put their trust in man, according to the wisdom of man. They look to Egypt for help, but in vain. This contempt of Jehovah, accompan...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR THE EGYPTIANS SHALL HELP IN VAIN, AND TO NO PURPOSE,.... Not sending help in time, or such as did no service; though they made a show of help, and attempted to help them, or seemed to do so, yet f...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength [is] to sit still. Ver. 7. _For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose._]...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The burden of the beasts of the south_ The burden of riches or treasures, carried upon beasts travelling southward. In these verses the prophet has before his eyes “the ambassadors of the Jews, or, a...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose, their help will be vapor and emptiness, an unusually strong expression to designate the helplessness of Egypt; THEREFORE HAVE I CRIED CONCERNING...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE ALLIANCE WITH EGYPT AND THE REBELLIOUS PEOPLE...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    CONCERNING THIS: Or, to her...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-7 It was often the fault and folly of the Jews, that when troubled by their neighbours on one side, they sought for succour from others, instead of looking up to God. Nor can we avoid the dreadful...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    CONCERNING THIS; concerning this counsel or practice. Or, _to her_; to Jerusalem or Judah. THEIR STRENGTH IS TO SIT STILL; it is safer and better for them to sit quietly at home, seeking to me for hel...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 30:7 Egyptians H4714 help H5826 (H8799) vain H1892 purpose H7385 Therefore H2063 called H7121 (H8804) Rahab-Hem

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BURDEN OF THE BEASTS OF THE SOUTH (ISAIAH 30:6). A prophetic burden usually indicates judgment on the subject of the burden. Here the judgment is on the beasts who carry the bribes to Egypt. For...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 30 THE FOURTH WOE. AGAINST THOSE WHO TRUST IN EGYPT RATHER THAN IN YAHWEH (ISAIAH 30:1). Having broken with Assyria and withheld tribute, as a result of the death of Sargon II of Assyria and t...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Warnings against alliance with Egypt against Sennacherib and exhortation to turn to the Lord for help. CHARACTERS: God, Pharoah. CONCLUSION: When sin has brought men into distress, it is th...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 30:1. _Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me._ It was a law among all ancient nations to undertake nothing of importance without consulting the gods....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Their strength is to sit still_ A POLICY IN AN EPIGRAM Sometimes a policy is summed up in an epigram, or in an easily quotable sentence; and it can be used as a war cry or as an election cry; it ca...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 30:6 Isaiah mocks the Judeans carrying payment to the court of Egypt. RAHAB WHO SITS STILL. For Rahab as a poetical name for Egypt, see Psalms 87:4

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    STRENGTH IN QUIETNESS [1120] [1120] See also CHRISTIAN QUIETNESS, Isaiah 30:15. Isaiah 30:7. _Their strength is to sit still_. There is a sense in which “sitting still” is not our strength, but our...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 30:1 THE ALLIANCE WITH EGYPT OPENLY REBUKED. In the preceding chapter (Isaiah 30:15) the design of the Jewish rulers to seek the alliance of Egypt was covertly

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not from me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to their sin (Isaiah 30:1): Now these pe...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Exodus 14:13; Hosea 5:13; Isaiah 2:22; Isaiah 28:12; Isaiah 30:15;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    To her — To Jerusalem or Judah. Sit still — It is safer and better for them to sit quietly at home, seeking to me for help....

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