Isaiah 30:7

For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still. FOR THE EGYPTIANS SHALL HELP IN VAIN, AND TO NO PURPOSE - Hebrew, 'The Egyptians are vanity, and to no purpose will they help' (Calvin). THEREFORE HAVE I CRIED CONCERNING THIS (THIS PURPOSE OF THEIRS TO SEND TO EGYPT FOR HELP: OR ELSE THE HEBREW, laazo't (H2063 ), IS TO HER), THEIR STRENGTH (IS) TO SIT STILL. "Strength" - Hebrew, raahaab (H7293): since this is a designation of Egypt (Isaiah 51:9; Psalms 87:4), implying her haught...

7._Surely the Egyptians are vanity. _(288) This verse contains the explanation of the former statement; for he repeats and threatens the same thing, that the Egyptians, after having worn out the Jews by various annoyances and by prodigious expense, will be of no service to them. “The strength of Egypt” will do them no good, even though he be earnest in assisting them, and employ all his forces. Thus shall the Jews be disappointed of their hope, and deceive themselves to their great vexation. The particle ו (ū) signifies here either _for _or _surely_, as I have translated it. _Therefore have I cried to her. _He now shews that the Jews have no excuse for fleeing with such haste into Egypt, and that they are willingly foolish and unworthy of any pardon, because they do not repent when they are warned. When he says that he “cried” to Jerusalem, I consider th

1-7 It was often the fault and folly of the Jews, that when troubled by their neighbours on one side, they sought for succour from others, instead of looking up to God. Nor can we avoid the dreadful consequences of adding sin to sin, but by making the righteousness of Christ our refuge, and seeking for the sanctification of the Holy Spirit. Men have always been prone to lean to their own understandings, but this will end in their shame and misery. They would not trust in God. They took much pains to gain the Egyptians. The riches so spent turned to a bad account. See what dangers men run into who forsake God to follow their carnal confidences. The Creator is the Rock of ages, the creature a broken reed; we cannot expect too little from man, or too much from God. Our strength is to sit still, in humble dependence upon God and his goodness, and quiet submission to his will....

Verse Isaiah 30:7. _THEIR STRENGTH_ IS _TO SIT STILL__ _- "Rahab the Inactive."] The two last words, הם שבת _hem shabeth_, joined into one, make the participle pihel המשבת _hammeshabbeth_. I find the learned Professor Doederlein, in his version of Isaiah, and note on this place, has given the same conjecture; which he speaks of as having been formerly published by him. A concurrence of different persons in the same conjecture adds to it a greater degree of probability....

FOR THE EGYPTIANS SHALL HELP IN VAIN - That is, if they enter into the alliance, they shall not be able to defend you from the invader. The other member of the sentence would seem to imply that they would make promises of aid, and would even boast of being able to deliver them, but that they would fail in their promises. THEREFORE HAVE I CRIED - Therefore have I the prophet cried, that is, I do call her so. CONCERNING THIS - Concerning this country; that is, Egypt. Some have understood this as referring to Jerusalem, but the connection requires us to understand it of Egypt. THEIR STRENGTH IS TO SIT STILL - This is evidently designed to be an expressive appellation of Egypt. The word rendered here, without much propriety, ‘strength’ (רהב _râhab_) is a proper name of Egypt, and is sev

EXPOSITION ISAIAH 30:1 THE ALLIANCE WITH EGYPT OPENLY REBUKED. In the preceding chapter (Isaiah 30:15) the design of the Jewish rulers to seek the alliance of Egypt was covertly glanced at and condemned; now it is openly declared and rebuked. The rulers are warned that no good can possibly come of it, even in a worldly sense. The Egyptians will give no aid, or at any rate no effectual aid. The sums expended in purchasing their friendship will be utterly thrown away. ISAIAH 30:1 WOE TO THE REBELLIOUS CHILDREN (comp....

FOR THE EGYPTIANS SHALL HELP IN VAIN, AND TO NO PURPOSE,.... Not sending help in time, or such as did no service; though they made a show of help, and attempted to help them, or seemed to do so, yet failed to do it: THEREFORE HAVE I CRIED; proclaimed or published, either the Lord by the prophet, or the prophet in the name of the Lord, which is much the same: CONCERNING THIS, THEIR STRENGTH [IS] TO SIT STILL; either concerning this embassy, that it would have been better for the ambassadors to have spared all their toil, and labour, and strength, in going down to Egypt, and have remained quiet and easy in their own country: or, "I cried, or called, to this i", this city of Jerusalem, and the inhabitants of it, and declared to them, that it was best for them quietly to trust in the Lord, and depend upon his protection, and sit still in Jerusalem, and not attempt to flee from thence to Eg...

CHAPTER 30 The Fourth Woe Against Alliance With Egypt 1. _The alliance and its failure (Isaiah 30:1)_ 2. _The written table against the rebellious people (Isaiah 30:8)_ 3. _Jehovah's word of encouragement (Isaiah 30:15)_ 4. _The nation blest and restored (Isaiah 30:18)_ 5. _Idolatry ceases and the land restored (Isaiah 30:22)_ 6. _The accomplishment by the coming of the Lord (Isaiah 30:27)_ While this chapter had a si

This passage is introduced by a strange title, Oracle concerning the beasts of the Negeb, _i.e._ either the beasts who carry the treasure to Egypt (Isaiah 30:6_ b_), or the wild creatures that infest the Negeb. Duhm supposes that the oracle began In the wastes of the South, and that the title should be, Oracle. In the wastes of the South. the title being taken from the opening words, which have fallen out of the text through haplography. With great trouble and expense the ambassadors go through the difficult and dangerous desert to negotiate a useless alliance with Egypt, an insolent and indolent people. The prophet is bidden write his oracle on a tablet (Isaiah 8:1) and inscribe it in a book, that it may be a witness (_mg._) for ever ...

HAVE. CRIED CONCERNING THIS. have. called (or named) her. THEIR STRENGTH, &C. Hebrew Egypt sitting still (and thus not giving the help that was being sought). Rahab. pride, or strength, is put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), for Egypt, the proud or strong one. Note the wrong but common use of this verse, through not heeding the context....