What does Isaiah 29:10 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers,c the seers hath he covered."
FOR THE LORD HATH POURED OUT UPON YOU - The word rendered ‘hath poured out’ (נסך _nâsak_) is usually referred to the act of pouring out a libation, or drink-offering in worship Exodus 30:9; Hosea 9:4...
CHAPTER 29 The Second Woe Against Ariel and the Third Woe 1. _The fall of Ariel (Jerusalem) predicted (Isaiah 29:1)_ 2. _Their enemies dealt with by Jehovah (Isaiah 29:5)_ 3. _The people's condition:...
The people are stupefied, for Yahweh has drenched their senses with a trance-slumber (Genesis 2:21 *). He has shut their eyes and muffled their heads. All alike fail to understand the prophetic vision...
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. HATH POURED, &C. Quoted in Romans 11:8. SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9....
Isaiah 29:1-14. The announcement of Jehovah's wonderful purpose regarding Jerusalem, and its reception on the part of the people Under the second "Woe" (Isaiah 29:1) are grouped two oracles, which ma...
STAY YOURSELVES, AND WONDER— Or, _Stay,_ &c._—Make blind and be ye blind; they are drunken,_ &c. The prophet here proceeds to describe the _spiritual judgment;_ the first gradation of which is contain...
4. SULLENNESS TEXT: Isaiah 29:9-16 9 Tarry ye and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For Jehovah hath poured...
For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. THE SPIRIT OF DEEP SLEEP. Yahweh gives them up j...
29:10 closed (a-15) Lit. 'to shut strongly.' so ch. 33.15....
WARNINGS TO JUDAH These Chapter s refer to the state of affairs during the reign of Hezekiah, when Palestine was threatened by Assyria, and an influential party in Judah favoured resistance, relying...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 29 THE FATE OF *JERUSALEM V1 *Woe to *Jerusalem, the city of David! It will not matt...
THE LORD HATH POURED OUT UPON YOU... — The prophet sees in the stupor and panic of the chief of the people what we call a judicial blindness, the retribution of those who had wilfully closed their eye...
כִּֽי ־נָסַ֨ךְ עֲלֵיכֶ֤ם יְהוָה֙ ר֣וּחַ תַּרְדֵּמָ֔ה וַ יְעַצֵּ֖ם אֶת ־עֵֽינֵיכֶ֑ם אֶת ־הַ נְּבִיאִ֛ים וְ...
BOOK 3 ORATIONS ON THE EGYPTIAN INTRIGUES AND ORACLES ON FOREIGN NATIONS 705-702 B.C. Isaiah: 29 About 703 30 A little later 31 A little later 32:1-8 Later 32:9-20 Date uncertain ------------...
This is the first of a series of declamations concerning the chosen people, and sets forth the purpose of Jehovah in judgment. The message opens with a description of the judgment (verses Isa 29:1-4),...
_Sleep, or compunction, (Romans xi. 8.; Calmet) denoting their obstinacy. (St. Chrysostom) --- Visions. Protestants, "the seers." (Haydock) --- The Jews perceived but very imperfectly the meaning of t...
Here are the same, or similar denunciations, as have been before noticed. God's judgments for men's rebellion. And what makes the whole most awful, is, that those judgments and punishments remain unsa...
10._Because Jehovah hath overpowered you with the spirit of slumber. _For the purpose of shewing more clearly the source of this blindness, he attributes it to the judgment of God, who determined to p...
Jerusalem is reduced to the last extremity. But this time Jehovah appears for her deliverance, and the multitude of her enemies disappear as a dream of the night. Everything is dark and gloomy as to t...
FOR THE LORD HATH POURED OUT UPON YOU A SPIRIT OF DEEP SLEEP,.... Gave them up to a stupid frame of spirit; to a reprobate mind, a mind void of judgment and sense; to judicial blindness and hardness o...
For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. Ver. 10. _For the Lord hath poured out upon you the...
_Stay yourselves and wonder_ The prophet, having described the temporal judgment coming on the Jews, (see the contents of the chapter,) proceeds now to predict the spiritual one, the first gradation o...
THE WOE UPON ARIEL...
RULERS: _ Heb._ heads...
9-16 The security of sinners in sinful ways, is cause for lamentation and wonder. The learned men, through prejudice, said that the Divine prophecies were obscure; and the poor urged their want of le...
HATH POURED OUT UPON YOU; which phrase notes the plenty and vehemency of this judgment. THE SPIRIT OF DEEP SLEEP; hardness of heart, and insensibleness of your danger and misery, which God is said to...
Isaiah 29:10 LORD H3068 out H5258 (H8804) spirit H7307 sleep H8639 closed H6105 (H8762) eyes H5869 prophets H5030 covered H3680 (H8765) heads H7218 seers H2374 the Lord - Isaiah 29:14, Isaiah 6:9-10;...
THE UNBELIEVING RESPONSE OF THE MAJORITY TO GOD (ISAIAH 29:9). There are at least two ways of looking at this passage. One is to see it as Isaiah's words prior to God's amazing deliverance, seeking t...
CONTENTS: Warnings to Judah and Jerusalem of impending discipline. The blessing after the final deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, David, Abraham. CONCLUSION: Those who are formal and hypocritical in the...
Isaiah 29:1. _Woe to Ariel,_ the lion of God, or the strong lion, for _El_ is often rendered _strong_ or _rock,_ as in Psalms 42:9. “God my rock.” The city of Jerusalem was that strong rock, or strong...
_Stay yourselves, and wonder, they are drunken, but not with wine_ SPIRITUAL DRUNKENNESS By spiritual drunkenness (Isaiah 29:9) we are probably to understand unsteadiness of conduct and a want of sp...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 29:1 A WARNING TO JERUSALEM. Expostulation is followed by threats. The prophet is aware that all his preaching to the authorities in Jerusalem (Isaiah 28:14) will be of no avail, a...
Chapter 29, the woe unto Jerusalem. Ariel means the lion of God. It is one of the names for Jerusalem. Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, [the lion of God] the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let t...
1 Samuel 26:12; 1 Samuel 9:9; 2 Corinthians 4:4; 2 Thessalonians 2:9; Acts 28:26; Acts 28:27; Amos 7:12; Amos 7:13; Ezekiel 14:9; Isaiah 29:1
Dead sleep — Hardness of heart, and insensibleness of your danger. Seers — Your magistrates and ministers. Covered — With the veil of ignorance and stupidity....