22 Stop trusting the power of humans.They are all going to die, so how can they help? Footnotes 2.1 message: See the note at 1.1. 2.6 because … foreigners: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text. 2.16 seagoing ships: The Hebrew text has “ships of Tarshish,” which may ...
22Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks, 23who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justiceto the innocent. 24Therefore, as tongues of firelick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, ...
Job 8:16; Job 14:7; Job 15:30; Psalm 80:12; Ezekiel 17:4, 22; Hosea 14:6). The "branch" of Isaiah 11:1, 10 - a different word - has nearly the same meaning. The Messiah will be a fresh sprout from the stump of a tree that has been felled; i.e. from the destroyed ...
"Smitten" is from "מֻכֵּה" (mukkeh), meaning to be struck down or afflicted. The phrase "by God" indicates that the suffering is perceived as coming from divine action. This reflects the belief that the Messiah's suffering was part of God's sovereign plan. Historically,...
To look at the spiritual side, figs are “cursed” fruit as they who are of the works of the law are under the “curse” of the law. There is a very deep spiritual meaning to this passage that requires much study and I don’t have room enough here to explain. However, if you beg...
2. There are other people who have insisted that the biblical words must always have a deeper “spiritual” meaning because God’s message and truth is self-evidently profound. 3. Still others have maintained that some parts of the Bible must be treated literally and some figuratively. 4....
22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed you. 23 Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every...
CATTLE. This word has a wide meaning (see below) but is here taken in its narrower sense of... Chaldaea, Chaldea CHALDAEA, CHALDEA kăl de’ ə, CHALDAEANS, CHALDEANS kăl de’ ənz כַּשְׂדִּים, H4169; Aram. ... C...
22 万军之耶和华说:我必兴起攻击他们,将巴比伦的名号和所馀剩的人,连子带孙一并剪除。这是耶和华说的。 23 我必使巴比伦为箭猪所得,又变为水池;我要用灭亡的扫帚扫净他。这是万军之耶和华说的。 24 万军之耶和华起誓说:我怎样思想,必照样成就;我怎样定意,必照样成立, 25 就是在我地上...
2:22 The meaning of this verse, certainly a later addition, is not clear. It is not addressed to God but to a plural subject. 3:1–12 These verses suggest deportation, with resulting social upheaval, and thus may date to sometime after Ahaz submitted as vassal to Assyria. The deportatio...