Let a year elapse and a little more (Isa 32:10, Margin). let … kill sacrifices—rather, "let the beasts (of another year) go round" [Maurer]; that is, after the completion of a year "I will distress Ariel." Matthew Poole's CommentaryISAIAH CHAPTER 29. The temple and city of ...
A sudden and abrupt transition. The best explanation seems to be that suggested by Jerome, and followed by Bishop Lowth and most commentators, viz. that the prophet dramatically introduces his adversaries as replying to him with taunting speeches. "Whom does he think he is teaching?" they ask....
The words paint the beauty of the chosen land flourishing once more as “the garden of Jehovah” (Genesis 13:10), and therefore a fit type of that which is in a yet higher sense the “Paradise of God” (Revelation 2:7).Benson CommentaryIsaiah 35:1. The wilderness and solitary place,...
to witchcraft, sorceries, deception, and reliance upon oneself, to stop trusting in the God of Israel and His Messiah Yeshua. This is the concept that Paul was trying to draw out according to 1 Timothy 6:10, Paul warns saying,“But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow ...
No explanation for the identity of the servant of the Lord in the `servant songs' of Isaiah commands a scholarly consensus. This study attempts to overcome the present impasse by rejecting the dismemberment of Isaiah 40-66 advanced by Duhm and others, who isolate the `servant songs' from thei...
Behold, I send my messenger.--See Notes onMatthew 11:10-11. Pulpit Commentary Verse 2.-Even as it is written in the prophets. The weight of evidence is here in favor of the reading "in Isaiah the prophet." Three of the most important uncials (א, B, and L), and twenty-six of...
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) The sons also of them that afflicted thee . . .--The explanation commonly given is that the "sons" are named because the persecutors themselves are thought of as no more. It seems better, however, to see in the words an expression of the la...
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) Your soul shall live . . .--Better, revive. The idea is that of waking to a new life. I will make an everlasting covenant . . .--The words find their explanation in the "new covenant" of Jeremiah 31:31, Luke 22:20, but those which ...
He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. The prophet now adds to the song of the vineyard, by way of explanation. "In future will Jacob strike roots, Israel blossom and bud, and fill the surface ...
To the contrary, Vicki Hoffer believes he has a better explanation and canonical solution in his study of this parallel story in Isaiah 38:21 by pointing out the implications for the root wordḥāyâ(live, recover, to be) in verses 1 and 7 and its parallel in Isaiah 38:21, which di...