In (h) measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
(h) That is, you will not destroy the root of your Church, though the branches of it seem to perish by the sharp wind of affliction.
IN MEASURE ... - This verse in our translation is exceedingly obscure, and indeed almost unintelligible. Nor is it much more intelligible in Lowth, or in Noyes; in the Vulgate, or the Septuagint. The...
CHAPTER 27 ISRAEL'S ENEMIES OVERTHROWN AND THE GREAT RESTORATION 1. _Assyria, Babylon and Egypt punished (Isaiah 27:1)_ 2. _What Jehovah has done and will do (Isaiah 27:2)_ 3. The vineyard established...
ISRAEL'S GENTLE CHASTISEMENT AND THE TERMS ON WHICH IT MAY BE PARDONED. This is an insertion out of connexion with the context, and it does not itself hang well together. The writer asks, Has Yahweh p...
IN MEASURE. By measure. Referring to the smiting of Israel, as being in limited measure. Hebrew. _seah_. App-51. (11), (5). WHEN IT SHOOTETH FORTH. when Thou didst send it forth (i.e. the stroke of I...
A summons to national repentance and reformation. Has Israel suffered the extremity of Divine punishment as its oppressors have done (7)? There is a ground of hope in the moderation displayed by Jehov...
A very difficult verse. The first word in the Hebr. is supposed to be a contracted reduplication of _ṣěâh_(the third part of an ephah); hence "by seah and seah" = "in exact measure," "dealing out puni...
HE SHALL CAUSE THEM, &C.— Or, _In times to come, Jacob shall take root: Israel,_ &c. Isaiah 27:7. _Hath he smitten him according to the stroke of those that smote him?_ &c. Isaiah 27:8. _In measure, w...
2. JOINED BY DIVINE PURGING TEXT: Isaiah 27:7-13 7 Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them? 8 In measu...
In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. IN MEASURE - Hebrew, bªca'cª'aah (H5432), a contraction for bª-ce'ah-ce'ah, 'in...
1. The powers hostile to God's people are here symbolically represented as monsters. LEVIATHAN THE PIERCING (RV 'swift') SERPENT perhaps stands for Assyria, watered by the rapid Tigris, and 'leviathan...
WHEN, etc.] RV 'when thou sendest her away thou dost contend with her; he hath removed her with his rough blast,' etc. Israel has been smitten but only in measure....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 27 GOD’S JUDGEMENT AGAINST LEVIATHAN V1 On that day, the *Lord will seize his powerf...
God explains why he holds back complete punishment of his people. He will completely forgive them. But only when they remove all evidence of false *worship from their land. LIFE WITHOUT PURPOSE V10...
IN MEASURE... — Literally, with the force of iteration, _with measure and measure._ The verse continues the thought of the preceding. The word for “measure” is strictly definite: the _seah,_ or third...
בְּ סַאסְּאָ֖ה בְּ שַׁלְחָ֣הּ תְּרִיבֶ֑נָּה הָגָ֛ה...
CHAPTER XXIX GOD'S POOR DATE UNCERTAIN Isaiah 25:1; Isaiah 26:1; Isaiah 27:1 WE have seen that no more than the faintest gleam of historical reflection brightens the obscurity of chapter 24, and th...
GOD'S CARE FOR HIS VINEYARD Isaiah 27:1-13 Throughout these Chapter s we must remember that the doom of Babylon and the restoration of God's people are symbolical of other events, for which the world...
This circle of prophecy ends with a message which describes the process toward ultimate restoration, and announces its certainty. The way to restoration is the way of judgment, and this the prophet fi...
_Cast off. When the synagogue shall be cast off, thou shalt judge it in measure, and in proportion to its crimes. (Challoner) --- The Israelites have been rigorously punished. (Calmet) --- He, &c. God...
All these are so many different expressions, to intimate that the Lord's mercy to his people is all of grace, and not for their deserts. The Lord watcheth over them for good; but it is for the exaltat...
_TROUBLES DIVINELY ADAPTED_ ‘He stayeth His rough wind in the day of the east wind.’ Isaiah 27:8 Two somewhat distinct meanings may be attached to these words. They may mean that two evil winds can...
8._In measure. _This is the second proof of the divine compassion towards all the elect, whom he chastises for this purpose, that they may not perish; and, by mitigating the punishments which he infli...
Finally, Jehovah invites His people to hide themselves a little moment, while He comes out of His place to execute vengeance (chap. 27). The power of Satan in this world and among men shall be destroy...
IN MEASURE, WHEN IT SHOOTETH FORTH, THOU WILT DEBATE WITH IT,.... Or, "when he sendeth it forth" x; when God sends forth an affliction on his people, or gives it a commission to them, as all are sent...
_In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind._ Ver. 8. _In measure._] Heb., _Modio_ _i.e., _ _exigua mensura,_ in a small measu...
_In measure when it shooteth forth_ Rather, _In measure when thou sendest it forth_, as בסאסאה בשׁלחה, may be properly rendered. The words seem to be addressed by the prophet to God, and to signify th...
In measure, when it shooteth forth, Thou wilt debate with it, literally, "in a small measure [that of a _ seah_], by sending her away, Thou punishest her," the reference being to Israel's exile; HE ST...
THE GATHERING OF THE CHURCH...
WHEN IT SHOOTEST FORTH: Or, when thou sendest it forth HE STAYETH: Or, when he removeth it...
6-13 In the days of the gospel, the latter days, the gospel church shall be more firmly fixed than the Jewish church, and shall spread further. May our souls be continually watered and kept, that we...
IN MEASURE; with moderation, in certain proportions which God meteth out and fitteth to their strength. _When it shooteth forth_; when the vine shooteth forth its luxuriant branches, he, like the vine...
Isaiah 27:8 measure H5432 sending H7971 (H8763) contended H7378 (H8799) removes H1898 (H8804) rough H7186 wind...
YAHWEH HAS HAD COMPASSION ON HIS PEOPLE, FOR EVEN IN THE PAST HE HAS NOT TREATED ISRAEL AS BADLY AS THEY DESERVED (ISAIAH 27:7). Yahweh has not smitten His people as severely as He has smitten others,...
Isaiah 27:8 Two somewhat distinct meanings may be attached to these words. They may mean that two evil winds cannot blow in full force together. If they blow together, there is a chastening of the evi...
Isaiah 27:1. _In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, That is to say, he will punish those who are like leviathan; the proudest, the...
CONTENTS: Punishment of the proud enemy of God's people. Israel restored and fruitful. CHARACTERS: God, serpent, dragon. CONCLUSION: When the Lord comes to punish the inhabitants of the earth, He wil...
Isaiah 27:1. _In that day the Lord shall punish leviathan._ It would seem that the Assyrian and Chaldean empire are here intended. See on Job 41:1; Amos 9:13. The desolations mentioned in the tenth ve...
_He stayeth His rough wind in the day of the east wind_ THE ROUGH WIND STAYED Here we are taught two things: that God permits calamities to come upon man, but that He restrains them in moderation fo...
THE DAY OF THE EAST WIND Isaiah 27:8. _In measure, when Thou sendest it forth, &c. (Margin)_. We have often complained of the bitterness and depressing effects of the “east wind.” In Bible lands it w...
THE AFFLICTIONS OF GOD’S PEOPLE Isaiah 27:7. _Hath He smitten him as He smote his smiter, or was he slain as his slayers were slain? In exact measure, when dismissing her, Thou didst contend with her;...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 27:1 THE TRIPLE JUDGMENT ON THE POWERS OF DARKNESS. The crowning judgment of all is now briefly described. "In that day"—the day of God's vengeance—when all his other enemies have b...
Chapter 27: In that day (Isaiah 27:1) Now what day? In the day in which God is bringing the Great Tribulation upon the earth. In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall pun...
1 Corinthians 10:13; 1 Peter 1:6; Ezekiel 19:12; Hosea 11:7; Hos
In measure — With moderation. When — When the vine shooteth forth its luxuriant branches, he cuts them off, but so as not to destroy the vine. Contend — God is said to contend with men, when he execut...