What does Isaiah 14:26 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations."
THIS IS THE PURPOSE - This is the sum of the whole design - a design that embraces the destruction both of the king of Assyria, and of Babylon. UPON THE WHOLE EARTH - The successive kingdoms of Assyr...
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...
THE DESTRUCTION OF ASSYRIA. This is usually regarded as a genuine fragment by Isaiah, asserting, as in Isaiah 10:5, the approaching destruction of Assyria in Palestine, and uttered probably not long b...
PURPOSE. HAND. Note the Alternation of these two words in Isaiah 14:26 and Isaiah 14:27. STRETCHED OUT: i.e. in judgment....
Isaiah 14:24-32. Two Isaianic Fragments 2 Samuel 14:24; 2 Samuel 14:24. An announcement of Jehovah's purpose to destroy the Assyrians on the soil of Canaan. In spite of the absence of a title these v...
THE LORD OF HOSTS HATH SWORN— This period, though of a peculiar and different, is not of a totally foreign argument: it contains the epilogue and conclusion of the foregoing prophesy. As what the prop...
c. DESTROYED TEXT: Isaiah 14:21-27 21 Prepare ye slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers, that they rise not up, and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with citi...
The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: -CONFIRMATION OF THIS BY THE HERE-FORETOLD DESTRUCTION OF THE AS...
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)....
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 peop...
THIS IS THE HAND THAT IS STRETCHED OUT ... — The words point, as it were, to the idea of a universal history. The fall of the Assyrian power and of Babylon does not stand alone, but forms part of a sc...
זֹ֛את הָ עֵצָ֥ה הַ יְּעוּצָ֖ה עַל ־כָּל ־הָ אָ֑רֶץ וְ זֹ֛את הַ יָּ֥ד הַ...
CHAPTER XXVII BABYLON AND LUCIFER DATE UNCERTAIN Isaiah 13:1; Isaiah 14:1 THIS double oracle is against the City Isaiah 13:2; Isaiah 14:1 and the Tyrant Isaiah 14:3 of Babylon. I. THE WICKED CIT...
In this section we have three prophecies: concerning Assyria Isaiah 14:24), concerning Philistia Isaiah 14:28), and the commencement of one concerning Moab (15). This fragment concerning Assyria consi...
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...
26._This purpose which is purposed upon the whole earth. _The Lord is not satisfied with one or two confirmations, and can scarcely refrain from proclaiming it more and more abundantly, because he kno...
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...
THIS [IS] THE PURPOSE THAT IS PURPOSED UPON THE WHOLE EARTH, c] Or, "counsel that is counselled". The Targum is, "all the inhabitants of the earth'' and the Septuagint version, "the whole world", me...
This [is] the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this [is] the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. Ver. 26. _This is the purpose that is purposed._] Heb., The council tha...
_The Lord of hosts hath sworn_, &c. Here begins another prophecy against the Assyrians, which was to be fulfilled much sooner than the foregoing, even in the life-time of the prophet. But, “though of...
PROPHECIES AGAINST ASSYRIA AND PHILISTIA...
24-27 Let those that make themselves a yoke and a burden to God's people, see what they are to expect. Let those that are the called according to God's purpose, comfort themselves, that whatever God h...
UPON THE WHOLE EARTH; upon this vast empire, now in the hands of the Assyrians, and shortly to come into the hands of the Babylonians. THE WHOLE EARTH is put synecdochically for a great part of it. Th...
Isaiah 14:26 purpose H6098 purposed H3289 (H8803) earth H776 hand H3027 out H5186 (H8803) nations H1471 Isaiah 5:25; Zephaniah 3:6-8...
JUDGMENT ON ASSYRIA (ISAIAH 14:24). But the reader is asking, what of Assyria? Thus Assyria is dealt with briefly and for the last time judgmentwise in this section. To Isaiah it is of no more conseq...
WHOLE EARTH This universality is significant and marks the whole passage as referring, not merely to a near judgment upon Assyria, but in a yet larger sense to the final crash of the present world-sy...
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 th...
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...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 14:25 God will BREAK THE ASSYRIAN IN MY LAND (see chs. Isaiah 36:1). This short-term fulfillment of God’s word encourages the belief that everything he says CONCERNING THE WHOLE...
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 will of the nations, a...
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 5:25; Zephaniah 3:6...
The earth — Upon this vast empire, now in the hands of the Assyrians, and shortly to come into the hands of the Babylonians. The hand — The providence of God executing his purpose....