What does Isaiah 13:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazedc one at another; their faces shall be as flames."
Verse Isaiah 13:8. _AND THEY SHALL BE AFRAID_ - "And they shall be terrified"] I join this verb, ונבהלו _venibhalu_, to the preceding verse, with the _Syriac_ and _Vulgate_. _PANGS AND SORROWS SHALL...
THEY SHALL BE IN PAIN AS A WOMAN THAT TRAVAILETH - This comparison is often used in the Scriptures to denote the deepest possible pain and sorrow, as well as the suddenness with which any calamity com...
2. THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS AND THE FUTURE DAY OF JEHOVAH (13-27) CHAPTER 13 The Burden of Babylon 1. _Jehovah's call to the judgment of Babylon (Isaiah 13:1)_ 2. _The day of Jehovah: When Babylo...
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...
AS FLAMES. as [faces of] flames darkened....
_they shall be amazed one at another_ i.e. "look in horror on each other." _their faces shall be as flames_ Lit. FACES OF FLAMES ARE THEIR FACES, burning with feverish excitement, or perhaps with sha...
THEREFORE, &C.— What other effect could the premonition concerning the approach of such formidable enemies produce, than consternation and dismay? So the prophet informs us, eloquently describing in t...
III. PEOPLE AND PAGANS - Chapter S 13 - 23 A. IMPLACABLE EMPIRE CH. 13-14 CHAPTER THIRTEEN 1. BABYLON a. PREDICTION OF JUDGMENT TEXT: Isaiah 13:1-8 1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son...
And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. PANGS AN...
13:8 flames. (a-34) Lit. 'their faces, faces of flames.'...
1. BURDEN] The corresponding verb means 'to lift up' (_a_) a load, (_b_) the voice (cp. Isaiah 3:7; Isaiah 42:2; Isaiah 42:11), used of Balaam lifting up his voice in oracular utterance (Numbers 24:3;...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 13 The next major division of the Book of Isaiah is Chapter s 13 to...
וְֽ נִבְהָ֓לוּ ׀ צִירִ֤ים וַֽ חֲבָלִים֙ יֹֽאחֵז֔וּן כַּ † יֹּולֵדָ֖ה יְחִיל֑וּן אִ֤ישׁ אֶל ־רֵעֵ֨הוּ֙ יִתְמָ֔הוּ...
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 - w...
We now commence the second circle of the first division of our book, in which are contained Isaiah's prophecies concerning the nations and the world. The first describes the doom of Babylon. Whereas t...
And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces [shall be as] (g) flames. (g) T...
_Burnt. Black with despair, Nahum ii. 10., and Joel ii. 6._...
In the figurative language of prophecy, the Lord describes the destruction of Babylon. The army that shall come against Babylon, the Lord calls his sanctified ones, and his mighty ones. By sanctified,...
8._Pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them. _The word צירים (_tzirim_) being ambiguous, the Greek translators render it _ambassadors_. But the comparison of _a woman that travaileth_, which is added...
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...
AND THEY SHALL BE AFRAID,.... Troubled, dismayed, frightened, at the sudden taking of the city, and at the sight of Cyrus's troops marching up into the very heart of it, and to the king's palace: PAN...
_And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces [shall be as] flames._ Ver. 8....
_Howl ye_ We have here a very elegant and lively description of the terrible confusion and desolation which should be made in Babylon by the attack which the Medes and Persians should make upon it. Th...
GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE PROPHECIES OF WRATH...
AMAZED: _ Heb._ wonder ONE AT ANOTHER: _ Heb._ every man at his neighbor FLAMES: _ Heb._ faces of the flames...
6-18 We have here the terrible desolation of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. Those who in the day of their peace were proud, and haughty, and terrible, are quite dispirited when trouble comes. The...
THEY SHALL BE AMAZED ONE AT ANOTHER, to see so populous and impregnable a city as Babylon was, so easily and unexpectedly taken. FLAMES, Heb. _faces of flame_; either pale with fear, or inflamed with...
Isaiah 13:8 afraid H926 (H8738) Pangs H6735 sorrows H2256 hold H270 (H8799) pain H2342 (H8799) childbirth H3205 (H8802) amazed H8539 (H8799) one H376 another H7453 faces H6440 flames H3851 pangs - Is...
THE APOCALYPTIC DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON (ISAIAH 13:6). The forces having been gathered by Yahweh on the remoteness of the bare mountain, they are to be unleashed in ‘the Day of Yahweh', and it will se...
CONTENTS: Prophecy concerning last days, when punishment will be visited upon the nations, and Israel shall pass through the Great Tribulation. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Men have their da...
In the thirteen Chapter s which follow, the prophet, like a watchman, raises his voice, and denounces woes against all the surrounding nations, and finally against his own country. Isaiah 13:1. _The...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 13:1 God’s Judgment and Grace for the World: “We Have a Strong City.” Isaiah stresses God’s complete power over all the nations. God rules history to achieve his goals. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ va...
EXPOSITION THE BURDEN OF BABYLON. The series of prophecies which commences with this chapter and continues to the close of Isaiah 23:1; is connected together by the word _massa_, burden. It has been a...
Now as we move into chapter 13 and he speaks of the burden of Babylon which Isaiah saw, you remember that we mentioned when we started the prophecy of Isaiah that in many of the prophecies, there was...
1 Thessalonians 5:3; Daniel 5:5; Daniel 5:6; Isaiah 21:3; Isaiah 21:4; Isaiah 26:17; Jeremiah 30:6; Jeremiah 50:43; Joel 2:6; Nahum 2:10;...