Isaiah 24:18

And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake. NOISE OF THE FEAR - the shout designed to rouse the game and drive it into the pitfall. SHALL FALL INTO THE PIT ... FOR THE WINDOWS FROM ON HIGH ARE OPEN - taken from the account of the deluge (): the flood-gates. So the final judgments of fire on the apostate world are compared to the deluge (2 Peter 3:5)....

16-23 Believers may be driven into the uttermost parts of the earth; but they are singing, not sighing. Here is terror to sinners; the prophet laments the miseries he saw breaking in like a torrent; and the small number of believers. He foresees that sin would abound. The meaning is plain, that evil pursues sinners. Unsteady, uncertain are all these things. Worldly men think to dwell in the earth as in a palace, as in a castle; but it shall be removed like a cottage, like a lodge put up for the night. It shall fall and not rise again; but there shall be new heavens and a new earth, in which shall dwell nothing but righteousness. Sin is a burden to the whole creation; it is a heavy burden, under which it groans now, and will sink at last. The high ones, that are puffed up with their grandeur, that think themselves out of the reach of danger, God will visit for their pride and cruelty. Le...

Verse Isaiah 24:18. _OUT OF THE MIDST OF THE PIT _- "From the pit"] For מתוך _mittoch, from the midst of_, a MS. reads מן _min, from_, as it is in Jeremiah 48:44; and so likewise the _Septuagint, Syriac_, and _Vulgate_....

FROM THE NOISE OF THE FEAR - A cry or shout was made in hunting, designed to arouse the game, and drive it to the pitfall. The image means here that calamities would be multiplied in all the land, and that if the inhabitants endeavored to avoid one danger they would fall into another. AND HE THAT COMETH UP OUT OF THE MIDST OF THE PIT - A figure taken still from hunting. It was possible that some of the more strong and active of the wild beasts driven into the pitfall would spring out, and attempt to escape, yet they might be secured by snares or gins purposely contrived for such an occurrence. So the prophet says, that though a few might escape the calamities that would at first threaten to overthrow them, yet they would have no security. They would immediately fall into others, and be destroyed. FOR THE WINDOWS ON HIGH ARE OPEN - This is evidently taken from

SECTION VI. GOD'S GENERAL JUDGMENTS UPON THE EARTH (Isaiah 24-27.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 24:1 GOD'S JUDGMENTS ON THE WORLD AT LARGE. From special denunciations of woe upon particular nations—Babylon, Assyria, Philistia, Moab, Syria of Damascus, Egypt and Ethiopia, Arabia, Judea, Tyre—the prophet passes to denunciations of a broader character, involving the future of the whole world. This section of his work extends from the commencement of Isaiah 24:1. to the conclusion of...

AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, [THAT] HE WHO FLEETH FROM THE NOISE OF THE FEAR,.... From the fearful noise that will be made, the voices and thunderings heard in the heavens above, the sea and waves roaring below; or from wars, and rumours of wars, and terrible armies approaching and pursuing, Luke 21:25 or rather at the report of an object to be feared and dreaded by wicked men, even the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven, Revelation 1:7: SHALL FALL INTO THE PIT; of ruin and destruction, dug for the wicked, Psalms 94:13 just as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fell into the slime pits, when they fled from their conquerors,...

CHAPTER 24 The Day of Jehovah 1. _Jehovah dealing with the earth(Isaiah 24:1)_ 2. _All classes affected (Isaiah 24:2)_ 3. _The Desolations described (Isaiah 24:3)_ 4. _The Jewish Remnant during the trouble (Isaiah 24:13)_ 5. _The punishment of the high ones and kings (Isaiah 24:21)_ 6. _Jehovah's reign in Mount Zion and Jerusalem (Isaiah 24:23)_ A marvellous chapter. Not a word of it has ever been fulfilled. The great day of Jeh

ISAIAH 24. A WORLD-WIDE JUDGMENT FORETOLD. The apocalypse opens with the description of a judgment on the whole world. This judgment is predicted, it has not already happened. It will involve all in one common ruin, every distinction of class will be obliterated. For the world's inhabitants have broken the covenant made with Noah, in which bloodshed was forbidden (Genesis 9:5 f.). On bloodshed the huge empires have been founded and they shall perish in the blood they have spilt. Few men will be left, merriment ceases for wine is scarce, and the revellers who drink wine and strong drink find no pleasure in it. The city of false gods has its walls broken, the houses are closely barricaded, all gladness has gone, the city is desolation, the gate in ruins. The survivors are proportionately as few as the olives left to be beaten off the tree, or the few grapes to be gleaned when the principal...

FEAR. PIT. SNARE. Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ AGAIN. Hebrew. _happahad. huppahath. happahath bapah_. See Luke 21:35, and compare Jeremiah 48:43; Jeremiah 48:44. THE WINDOWS FROM ON HIGH, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 7:11). ARE OPEN. have opened. FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH. See Isaiah 58:12. Compare Isaiah 40:21....

This description of the judgment on the earth and its inhabitants seems to connect immediately with Isaiah 24:13. 17, 18a recur almost verbatim in Jeremiah 48:43 f. (cf. also Amos 5:19). 18B 20 describe the physical convulsions which accompany the day of Jehovah. _the windows from on high are_ OPENED] An allusion to the story of the Deluge (Genesis 7:11; Genesis 8:2). The rest of the imagery is based on the phenomena of the earthquake....