The whole earth is at (e) rest, [and] is quiet: they break forth into singing.
(e) Meaning that where tyrants reign, there can be no rest or quietness and also how detestable a thing tyranny is, seeing the insensible creatures have opportunity to rejoice at their destruction.
THE WHOLE EARTH IS AT REST - The kingdom of Babylonia, or Chaldea, extended nearly over the whole pagan world. Now that Babylon was fallen, and that those oppressions would cease, the world is represe...
CHAPTER 14 Israel's Restoration and Blessing After Babylon is Fallen and the Burden of Philistia 1. _Israel's restoration and exaltation (Isaiah 14:1)_ 2. _The proverb against the king of Babylon (Is...
ISAIAH 13:1 TO ISAIAH 14:23. THE UTTER RUIN OF BABYLON AND TRIUMPHAL ODE OVER HER MONARCH'S DEATH. Historical conditions are here presupposed entirely different from those of Isaiah's time. The subjec...
BREAK FORTH INTO SINGING. This word (Hebrew. _pazah)_ occurs once in the "former" portion (here), and five times in the "latter" portion (Isaiah 44:23; Isaiah 49:13; Isaiah 52:9;...
_b_ 8. The first strophe is like a sigh of relief breathed by the whole of creation, when the disturber of its peace has vanished from the scene....
_b_ 21. The song of triumph over the king of Babylon is one of the finest specimens of Hebrew poetry which the Old Testament contains. A division into five strophes, each containing seven long lines,...
_they break forth_into _singing_ A favourite idea in the second part of the book: ch. Isaiah 44:23; Isaiah 49:13; Isaiah 54:1; Isaiah 55:12....
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 pr...
CHAPTER FOURTEEN 2. BABYLON (Continued) a. DESPISED TEXT: Isaiah 14:1-11 1 For Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land; and the sojourner...
That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! -A CHORUS OF JEWS EXPRESS THEIR JOYFUL SURPRISE AT BABYLON'S DOWNFA...
1. STRANGERS] The thought of the voluntary adhesion of strangers is prominent in the later Chapter s of the book (Isaiah 44:5; Isaiah 55:5; Isaiah 60:5)....
The nations rejoice in the peace which follows the fall of their oppressor....
THE JUDGMENT OF BABYLON AND ITS KING This is the first of a series of prophecies dealing mainly with foreign nations. Its subject is Babylon, where the Jews are represented as undergoing exile, from w...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 14 THE *LORD’S PEOPLE WILL COME HOME V1 The *Lord will pity the peo...
THEY BREAK FORTH INTO SINGING... — The phrase is noticeable as characteristic of Isaiah (Isaiah 44:23; Isaiah 49:13; Isaiah 52:9; Isaiah 54:1;...
נָ֥חָה שָׁקְטָ֖ה כָּל ־הָ אָ֑רֶץ פָּצְח֖וּ רִ
BOOK 5 PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary with that - we...
CHAPTER XXVII BABYLON AND LUCIFER DATE UNCERTAIN Isaiah 13:1; Isaiah 14:1 THIS double oracle is against the City Isaiah 13:2; I
Anticipating the great day of restoration, the prophet puts into the mouth of Israel the great parable or song which celebrates the downfall of Assyria. This moves in five distinct strophes. In the fi...
_Earth. Subject to, or bordering upon the Assyrian empire. Under Darius the Mede, (the Cyaxares of Xenophon) and Cyrus, the people were little molested. (Calmet) --- The neighbouring princes ( fir-tre...
I do not interrupt the reading through this long chain of the most wonderful events, because it forms one grand whole. The destruction which will ultimately fall upon the enemies of God and of his Chr...
7.and 8._They break forth into singing. _Here he shows how greatly tyrants are hated by the whole world. When they are dead or ruined, all men break forth into joy, and express the feelings which they...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14. With chapter 12 one division of the whole book closes. That which commences with chapter 13 continues to the end of chapter 27, which describes th...
THE WHOLE EARTH IS AT REST, [AND] IS QUIET,.... The troubler of them being gone; and which will be the ease of the people of God, who in the latter day will fill the face of the earth, when the beast...
The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet: they break forth into singing. Ver. 7. _The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet._] _Quievit, conticuit._ _a_ All is hushed that was used to be set in an u...
_He that ruled the nations in anger_ With rigour, and not with clemency; _is persecuted and none hindereth_ Neither the Babylonians themselves nor their confederates. _The whole earth is at rest_ The...
The whole earth is at rest and is quiet, now that the enemy is overthrown, the peace of God's kingdom being pictured; THEY BREAK FORTH INTO SINGING, the believers praising the Lord for His deliverance...
THE DELIVERANCE OF ISRAEL...
1-23 The whole plan of Divine Providence is arranged with a view to the good of the people of God. A settlement in the land of promise is of God's mercy. Let the church receive those whom God receive...
THE WHOLE EARTH; the inhabitants and subjects of that vast empire, who groaned under their cruel bondage....
Isaiah 14:7 earth H776 rest H5117 (H8804) quiet H8252 (H8804) forth H6476 (H8804) singing H7440 they -...
THE DEMISE OF BABYLON AND HUMILIATION OF ITS BOASTFUL KINGS (ISAIAH 14:3). The coming of the Babylonian ambassadors to Hezekiah had had a profound influence on Isaiah. As he thought on the future, wit...
Isaiah 14:1. _For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jaco...
CONTENTS: Christ's Kingdom set up on earth with Israel restored, the Beast of hell. Satan's fall and doom. Babylon's final judgment. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: It is the comfort of God's people tha...
Isaiah 14:1. _And set them in their own land._ This prediction is so correct, as appears from the books of Nehemiah and Ezra, that no man can doubt the truth of prophecy; and its literal accomplishmen...
_Thou shalt take up this proverb against the King of Babylon_ THE “PROVERB AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON” Lowth is generally thought not to speak with exaggeration when he calls it the finest [song] o...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 14:1 THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL, AND HER SONG OF TRIUMPH OVER BABYLON. The destruction of Babylon is to be followed by the restoration of Israel, with the good w
For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob (Isaiah 14:1...
Isaiah 49:13; Jeremiah 51:48; Proverbs 11:10; Psalms 126:1;...
The earth — The subjects of that vast empire, who groaned under their cruel bondage....