CONTENTS
In this chapter, Egypt, the original and sworn foe to Israel, comes in for her judgment. Great misery and distress are threatened to Egypt. The close of the chapter contains great mercy, which is promised to Egypt in calling the inhabitants to Christ.
CHAPTER XIX _Prophecy concerning Egypt, in which her lamentable condition_ _under the Babylonians, Persians, c., is forcibly pointed out_, 1-17. _The true religion shall be propagated in Egypt ref...
THE BURDEN OF EGYPT - This is the title to the prophecy. For the meaning of the word “burden,” see the note at Isaiah 13:1. The word ‘Egypt’ in the original is מצרים _mı̂ts__e__rayı̂m_; and it was so...
CHAPTER 19 The Burden of Egypt 1. _The judgment announced (Isaiah 19:1)_ 2. _Egypt blest with Israel in the last days (Isaiah 19:16) _ Egypt has passed through many judgments. Hundreds of years after...
ISAIAH 19. ORACLE ON EGYPT. This is one of the most difficult Chapter s in the book. It falls into two sections, Isaiah 19:1 and Isaiah 19:18. If Isaiah 19:1 is in the main from Isaiah, it probably re...
BURDEN. The fourth of the seven burdens. RIDETH. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._...
On the superscription, see on ch. Isaiah 13:1. _rideth upon a swift cloud_ The same representation in Psalms 18:10; Psalms 104:3. It is based on the ancient conception of the thunder-storm as the emb...
The dissolution of the Egyptian nationality by the judicial intervention of Jehovah....
THE BURDEN OF EGYPT— The fifth discourse of the second book of Isaiah's prophesy contained in this chapter, delivered at another time, and much later than the preceding, copiously sets forth the fate...
CHAPTER NINETEEN 2. EGYPT TEXT: Isaiah 19:1-15 1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah rideth upon a swift cloud, and cometh unto Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his presence; and the...
The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it...
BURDEN] see on Isaiah 13:1. RIDETH] cp. Psalms 18:9; Psalms 18:10. The strength of Egypt is broken at Jehovah's approach....
THE JUDGMENT, ON EGYPT A prophecy concerning Egypt, probably belonging to the same period as Isaiah 18, and designed to show the speedy collapse of Egypt's power, on which a strong political party in...
‘Riding on a cloud’ describes the power of God, who controls storms (see Psalms 18:10-15). As clouds race across the sky in a storm, so God is racing to rescue his people. That was also David’s experi...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 19 GOD WILL PUNISH EGYPT V1 God gave this special message to Isaiah...
מַשָּׂ֖א מִצְרָ֑יִם הִנֵּ֨ה יְהוָ֜ה רֹכֵ֨ב עַל...
CHAPTER XVII ISAIAH TO THE FOREIGN NATIONS 736-702 B.C. Isaiah 14:24; Isaiah 15:1; Isaiah 16:1; Isaiah 17:1;...
These two Chapter s (19, 20) contain the burden of Egypt. Its doom is first declared (19: 1-15). Jehovah's advent will result in the destruction of idols, in civil war, in failure in counsel, and in t...
The (a) burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD (b) rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the mids...
Egypt. Many refer this to the coming of Christ, (Calmet) at whose presence the idols fell down, and many saints adorned the country. (Worthington) --- But the prophet may also literally refer to the w...
l._The burden of Egypt. _The Prophet here prophesies against _Egypt, _because it was a kind of refuge to the Jews, whenever they saw any danger approaching them; for when they had forsaken God, to who...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. In Chapter s 19 and 20 Egypt shall be smitten in that day; but Jehovah will heal it. Egypt, Assyria, and Israel shall together be blessed of Je...
THE BURDEN OF EGYPT;.... Or a prophecy concerning Egypt, as the Arabic version; a very grievous one, declaring many calamities that should come upon them. The Targum is, "the burden of the cup of cur...
The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it....
_The burden of Egypt_ Concerning the term _burden_, see on chap. 13:1. “Not many years after the destruction of Sennacherib's army before Jerusalem, by which the Egyptians were freed from the yoke wit...
A THREAT OF DESTRUCTION...
The burden of Egypt, including both Lower and Upper Egypt: BEHOLD, THE LORD RIDETH UPON A SWIFT CLOUD, coming on light clouds as His chariots, in order to pass sentence, AND SHALL COME INTO EGYPT; AND...
1-17 God shall come into Egypt with his judgments. He will raise up the causes of their destruction from among themselves. When ungodly men escape danger, they are apt to think themselves secure; but...
ISAIAH CHAPTER 19 The confusion of Egypt; their intestine dissension; their idols deceive them; cruel lords over them; waters fail them; their trade dead; their princes and counsellors made foolish; t...
Isaiah 19:1 burden H4853 Egypt H4714 LORD H3068 rides H7392 (H8802) swift H7031 cloud H5645 come H935 ...
‘The burden of Egypt. Behold Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. And the idols of Egypt will be removed at his presence, and the heart of Egypt will melt in the midst of it. And I will...
BURDEN (_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 13:1). _...
CONTENTS: Burden of Egypt, looking forward, through desolations, to Kingdom blessing with Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The barbarous usage which the enemies of God have given His people, eve...
Isaiah 19:4. _A cruel lord._ Such was Nebuchadnezzar; and after him, Cambyses, and other Persian kings. One oppression succeeded another, as illustrated in Daniel 11. Isaiah 19:11. _The princes of Zoa...
_The burden of Egypt_ THE PROPHECIES CONCERNING EGYPT The kingdom to which all the three prophecies (chaps. 18, 19, 20) refer is the same, namely, the Egypto-Ethiopian kingdom; but it is so dealt w...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 19:1 The fifth oracle concerns Egypt. Judah turned to Egypt for deliverance from Assyria. God has the power both to judge and to save Egypt, but Judah would rather trust Egypt th...
TRUE NATIONAL GREATNESS Isaiah 19:1; Isaiah 19:14. _The burden of Egypt, &c._ The prophecies of Isaiah take a wide range, embrace the fortunes of almost every nation, however remote, with whom the Is...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 19:1 THE BURDEN OF EGYPT. It has been doubted whether this prophecy refers to the conquest of Egypt by Piankhi, as related in the monument which he set up at Napata, or to that by E...
Now he turns to Egypt. The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall...
1 Samuel 5:2; Deuteronomy 33:26; Exodus 12:12; Exodus 15:14;...
Rideth — As a general in the head of his army. A swift cloud — This phrase shews that the judgment should come speedily, unexpectedly, and unavoidably. Shall be moved — So far shall they be from helpi...