Isaiah 1:16 Meaning and Commentary Isaiah 1:16 Wash ye, make you clean, &c. ] These two words are to be regarded as one, since they intend the same thing, and suppose the persons spoken to to be unclean, as they were, notwithstanding their legal sacrifices and ceremonial ablutions;...
Isaiah 16:1 Meaning and Commentary Isaiah 16:1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land Or tribute, as the Targum rightly interprets it. The Moabites, being conquered by David, paid tribute to him, ( 2 Samuel 8:2 ) and when the kingdom was divided in Rehoboam's time, the ...
(16) Wash you, make you clean . . .--The words were probably as an echo of Psalm 51:7. Both psalmist and prophet had entered into the inner meaning of the outward ablutions of ritual. Cease to do evil; (17) learn to do well.--Such words the prophet might have heard in his ...
Significant acts, bodily movements or signals which carry meaning, evoke responses... 5866 gluttony 5866 gluttony Scripture condemns an excessive greed for food. Its unrestrained self-indulgence... 5879 humiliation 5879 humiliation The act of being put to shame, often in ...
12:4-6Compare this song of praise to the Song of Mary inLk 1:45–55. 13:1-22 13:1-22This passage has several layers of meaning: (1) It prophesies the ultimate downfall of... 13:19-22 13:19-22Babylonwas agloriouscity which will be utterly destroyed. It is also a metaphor for...
The difference between the meaning of the Hebrew word 'almdh and the Greek word parthenos, used in the Septuagint translation, is crucial to the different interpretations given to Isaiah by Jewish and traditional ChristianGeorge D. Smith
But Dr. Kay is probably right in saying that, if this had been the meaning, it would have been expressed differently. Gesenius, Rosenmüller, Delitzsch, and Vance Smith agree with Dr. Kay in taking the words separately. Wonderful. The Messiah would be "wonderful" in his nature as God-Man...
The expression “left desolate”is contained in a simple verb meaning to be left alone. How alone is a city, a nation, or an individual from whom God has departed. This verse does not state that Yahweh has turned His back on the nation of Israel by giving the earthly Messianic Davidic...
Isaiah 16:12 Meaning and Commentary Isaiah 16:12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place With weeping there, ( Isaiah 15:2 ) or with frequent sacrifices, and going from one high place to another, as Balak king of Moab did; and by ...
Isaiah 51:16 Meaning and Commentary Isaiah 51:16 And I have put my words in thy mouth His promises and his truths, either in the mouth of his church, and people for them, both to preserve and transmit to future generations, and to publish and declare to the comfort of each other,...