_GIVE EAR, O YE HEAVENS, AND I WILL SPEAK; AND HEAR, O EARTH, THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH._ Give ear, O ye heavens ... hear, O earth. The magnificence of the exordium, the grandeur of the theme, the frequent and sudden transitions, the elevated strain of the sentiments and language, entitle this song to... [ Continue Reading ]
_MY DOCTRINE SHALL DROP AS THE RAIN, MY SPEECH SHALL DISTIL AS THE DEW, AS THE SMALL RAIN UPON THE TENDER HERB, AND AS THE SHOWERS UPON THE GRASS:_ My doctrine shall drop ... The language may justly be taken as uttered in the form of a wish or prayer. May my doctrine (discourse) drop as the rain! M... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE IS THE ROCK, HIS WORK IS PERFECT: FOR ALL HIS WAYS ARE JUDGMENT: A GOD OF TRUTH AND WITHOUT INIQUITY, JUST AND RIGHT IS HE._ He is the Rock - a word expressive of power and stability. The application of it in this passage is to declare HE IS THE ROCK - a word expressive of power and stability.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEY HAVE CORRUPTED THEMSELVES, THEIR SPOT IS NOT THE SPOT OF HIS CHILDREN: THEY ARE A PERVERSE AND CROOKED GENERATION._ They have corrupted themselves - i:e., the Israelites, by their frequent lapses and their inveterate attachment to idolatry. THEIR SPOT IS NOT THE SPOT OF HIS CHILDREN. This is... [ Continue Reading ]
_DO YE THUS REQUITE THE LORD, O FOOLISH PEOPLE AND UNWISE? IS NOT HE THY FATHER THAT HATH BOUGHT THEE? HATH HE NOT MADE THEE, AND ESTABLISHED THEE?_ Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? х_ Hª-LA-YAHWEH_ (H3068) _ TIGMªLUW _ (H1580) _ ZO'T_ (H2063). If the first word should stan... [ Continue Reading ]
_REMEMBER THE DAYS OF OLD, CONSIDER THE YEARS OF MANY GENERATIONS: ASK THY FATHER, AND HE WILL SHEW THEE; THY ELDERS, AND THEY WILL TELL THEE._ Remember the days of old ... Hengstenberg beautifully and justly remarks ('Christology,' 2:, p. 170, 171), that this parting hymn of Moses is the germ of a... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEN THE MOST HIGH DIVIDED TO THE NATIONS THEIR INHERITANCE, WHEN HE SEPARATED THE SONS OF ADAM, HE SET THE BOUNDS OF THE PEOPLE ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL._ When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance. In the division of the earth, which Noah is believed to... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE FOUND HIM IN A DESERT LAND, AND IN THE WASTE HOWLING WILDERNESS; HE LED HIM ABOUT, HE INSTRUCTED HIM, HE KEPT HIM AS THE APPLE OF HIS EYE._ He found him in a desert land, х_ YIMTSAA'EEHUW_ (H4672), he found] - i:e., 'assisted,' 'sustained,' provided for him х_ Bª'ERETS_ (H776) _ MIDBAAR_ (H4057... [ Continue Reading ]
_AS AN EAGLE STIRRETH UP HER NEST, FLUTTERETH OVER HER YOUNG, SPREADETH ABROAD HER WINGS, TAKETH THEM, BEARETH THEM ON HER WINGS:_ As an eagle ... fluttereth over her young. This beautiful and expressive metaphor is founded on the extraordinary care and attachment which the female eagle cherishes f... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THE LORD ALONE DID LEAD HIM, AND THERE WAS NO STRANGE GOD WITH HIM._ So the Lord alone did lead him ... Isaiah (Isaiah 63:11) represents the Holy Spirit as the conductor of Israel through the wilderness-an incontestible proof that the Spirit is a divine Spirit.... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE MADE HIM RIDE ON THE HIGH PLACES OF THE EARTH, THAT HE MIGHT EAT THE INCREASE OF THE FIELDS; AND HE MADE HIM TO SUCK HONEY OUT OF THE ROCK, AND OIL OUT OF THE FLINTY ROCK;_ He made him ride on the high places ... All these expressions seem to have special reference to their home in the Trans-Jo... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT JESHURUN WAXED FAT, AND KICKED: THOU ART WAXEN FAT, THOU ART GROWN THICK, THOU ART COVERED WITH FATNESS; THEN HE FORSOOK GOD WHICH MADE HIM, AND LIGHTLY ESTEEMED THE ROCK OF HIS SALVATION._ But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked х_ WAYIB`AAT_ (H1163)] - kicked as a full-fed, headstrong ox; figurat... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEY PROVOKED HIM TO JEALOUSY WITH STRANGE GODS, WITH ABOMINATIONS PROVOKED THEY HIM TO ANGER._ They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, х_ BªZAARIYM_ (H2114)] - strangers (Jeremiah 3:13; Jeremiah 5:19; singular, Isaiah 43:12); else with х_ 'EEL_ (H410)] god (Psalms 44:21; Psalms 81:10).... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEY SACRIFICED UNTO DEVILS, NOT TO GOD; TO GODS WHOM THEY KNEW NOT, TO NEW GODS THAT CAME NEWLY UP, WHOM YOUR FATHERS FEARED NOT._ They sacrificed unto devils, х_ LASHEEDIYM_ (H7700), lords, = _ Bª`AALIYM_ (H1168) (Gesenius); Septuagint, daimoniois]. The Hebrews regarded idols as lords who constr... [ Continue Reading ]
_OF THE ROCK THAT BEGAT THEE THOU ART UNMINDFUL, AND HAST FORGOTTEN GOD THAT FORMED THEE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THE LORD SAW IT, HE ABHORRED THEM, BECAUSE OF THE PROVOKING OF HIS SONS, AND OF HIS DAUGHTERS._ He abhorred them, х_ WAYIN'AATS_ (H5006)] - he rejected them with hatred and aversion. BECAUSE OF THE PROVOKING OF HIS SONS, AND OF HIS DAUGHTERS - i:e., by their sins.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, I WILL HIDE MY FACE FROM THEM, I WILL SEE WHAT THEIR END SHALL BE: FOR THEY ARE A VERY FROWARD GENERATION, CHILDREN IN WHOM IS NO FAITH._ And he said ... Certain words occur which make no part of the measures, or are not taken into the account of the verse. The word, "And he said," st... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEY HAVE MOVED ME TO JEALOUSY WITH THAT WHICH IS NOT GOD; THEY HAVE PROVOKED ME TO ANGER WITH THEIR VANITIES: AND I WILL MOVE THEM TO JEALOUSY WITH THOSE WHICH ARE NOT A PEOPLE; I WILL PROVOKE THEM TO ANGER WITH A FOOLISH NATION._ I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people. Th... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR A FIRE IS KINDLED IN MINE ANGER, AND SHALL BURN UNTO THE LOWEST HELL, AND SHALL CONSUME THE EARTH WITH HER INCREASE, AND SET ON FIRE THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE MOUNTAINS._ A fire is kindled in mine anger. Fire is mentioned as a natural concomitant of, and therefore an appropriate figure for, a dec... [ Continue Reading ]
_I WILL HEAP MISCHIEFS UPON THEM; I WILL SPEND MINE ARROWS UPON THEM._ I will spend mine arrows upon them. War, famine, pestilence (Psalms 77:17) are called in Scripture the arrows of the Almighty.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEY SHALL BE BURNT WITH HUNGER, AND DEVOURED WITH BURNING HEAT, AND WITH BITTER DESTRUCTION: I WILL ALSO SEND THE TEETH OF BEASTS UPON THEM, WITH THE POISON OF SERPENTS OF THE DUST._ Serpents of the dust, х_ ZOCHªLEEY_ (H2119)]. This term for reptiles occurs only here (Job 32:6; Job 7:17).... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE SWORD WITHOUT, AND TERROR WITHIN, SHALL DESTROY BOTH THE YOUNG MAN AND THE VIRGIN, THE SUCKLING ALSO WITH THE MAN OF GRAY HAIRS._ The sword without, and terror within shall destroy, х_ TªSHAKEL_ (H7921)] - shall bereave (King James Version margin).... [ Continue Reading ]
_I SAID, I WOULD SCATTER THEM INTO CORNERS, I WOULD MAKE THE REMEMBRANCE OF THEM TO CEASE FROM AMONG MEN:_ I said, I would scatter them. One leading design of the selection of Israel was, besides the instituted means of preserving in that nation the knowledge and worship of God, to diffuse the same... [ Continue Reading ]
_WERE IT NOT THAT I FEARED THE WRATH OF THE ENEMY, LEST THEIR ADVERSARIES SHOULD BEHAVE THEMSELVES STRANGELY, AND LEST THEY SHOULD SAY, OUR HAND IS HIGH, AND THE LORD HATH NOT DONE ALL THIS._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_O THAT THEY WERE WISE, THAT THEY UNDERSTOOD THIS, THAT THEY WOULD CONSIDER THEIR LATTER END!_ Oh that they ... would consider their latter end! - the terrible judgments which, in the event of their continued and incorrigible disobedience, would impart so awful a character to the close of their nat... [ Continue Reading ]
_HOW SHOULD ONE CHASE A THOUSAND, AND TWO PUT TEN THOUSAND TO FLIGHT, EXCEPT THEIR ROCK HAD SOLD THEM, AND THE LORD HAD SHUT THEM UP?_ How should one chase a thousand ... The express promise given to Israel, on condition of their religious allegiance to God, that 5 of that people should, by His mir... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THEIR ROCK IS NOT AS OUR ROCK, EVEN OUR ENEMIES THEMSELVES BEING JUDGES._ For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. They were compelled, by dear-bought experience, to acknowledge the supremacy of Israel's God (Exodus 14:25; Numbers 23:1; 1 Samuel 4:8; Jeremia... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THEIR VINE IS OF THE VINE OF SODOM, AND OF THE FIELDS OF GOMORRAH: THEIR GRAPES ARE GRAPES OF GALL, THEIR CLUSTERS ARE BITTER:_ Their vine is of the vine of Sodom. This fruit, which the Arabs call 'Lot's sea orange,' is of a bright yellow colour, and grows in clusters of three or four. When me... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEIR WINE IS THE POISON OF DRAGONS, AND THE CRUEL VENOM OF ASPS._ Their wine is the poison of dragons, х_ CHªMAT_ (H2534) _ TANIYNIM_ (H8577), the heat] - i:e. (as ulcerating the bowels), the poison or venom of serpents. AND THE CRUEL VENOM OF ASPS, х_ WªRO'SH_ (H7219) ... _ 'AKZAAR_ (H393)] - t... [ Continue Reading ]
_IS NOT THIS LAID UP IN STORE WITH ME, AND SEALED UP AMONG MY TREASURES?_ Is not this laid up in store with me? - i:e., all their wickedness, of which previous mention has been made. Their sins, though long borne with patience, are all remembered, being sealed up in a bag (Job 14:17) as a treasure... [ Continue Reading ]
_TO ME BELONGETH VENGEANCE, AND RECOMPENCE; THEIR FOOT SHALL SLIDE IN DUE TIME: FOR THE DAY OF THEIR CALAMITY IS AT HAND, AND THE THINGS THAT SHALL COME UPON THEM MAKE HASTE._ To me belongeth vengeance and recompense. It is my office, in the course of my providential government, to punish; and as I... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THE LORD SHALL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE, AND REPENT HIMSELF FOR HIS SERVANTS, WHEN HE SEETH THAT THEIR POWER IS GONE, AND THERE IS NONE SHUT UP, OR LEFT._ For the Lord shall judge his people - i:e., will make a just discrimination, and winnow the wheat from the chaff; the faithful from the idolatrous... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SHALL SAY, WHERE ARE THEIR GODS, THEIR ROCK IN WHOM THEY TRUSTED,_ He shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted? Previous to their deliverance, God in His providence will convince His people, from the degraded and miserable state into which idolatry had reduced them,... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHICH DID EAT THE FAT OF THEIR SACRIFICES, AND DRANK THE WINE OF THEIR DRINK OFFERINGS? LET THEM RISE UP AND HELP YOU, AND BE YOUR PROTECTION._ Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices - i:e., to whom Israel, in the times of their apostasy, did offer sacrifices and libations like the pagan (Psalm... [ Continue Reading ]
_SEE NOW THAT I, EVEN I, AM HE, AND THERE IS NO GOD WITH ME: I KILL, AND I MAKE ALIVE; I WOUND, AND I HEAL: NEITHER IS THERE ANY THAT CAN DELIVER OUT OF MY HAND._ See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me. Profit by the lessons of dear-bought experience, and retain an abiding convi... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR I LIFT UP MY HAND TO HEAVEN, AND SAY, I LIVE FOR EVER._ For I lift up my hand to heaven - the usual form of solemn adjuration. AND SAY, I LIVE FOR EVER - i:e., as sure as I am the self-existent Yahweh, I will execute my promises as well as my threatenings. The inviolable oath announces the ce... [ Continue Reading ]
_IF I WHET MY GLITTERING SWORD, AND MINE HAND TAKE HOLD ON JUDGMENT; I WILL RENDER VENGEANCE TO MINE ENEMIES, AND WILL REWARD THEM THAT HATE ME._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_I WILL MAKE MINE ARROWS DRUNK WITH BLOOD, AND MY SWORD SHALL DEVOUR FLESH; AND THAT WITH THE BLOOD OF THE SLAIN AND OF THE CAPTIVES, FROM THE BEGINNING OF REVENGES UPON THE ENEMY._ From the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. LeClerc renders these words; 'from the head, the princes (Judges 5:2)... [ Continue Reading ]
_REJOICE, O YE NATIONS, WITH HIS PEOPLE: FOR HE WILL AVENGE THE BLOOD OF HIS SERVANTS, AND WILL RENDER VENGEANCE TO HIS ADVERSARIES, AND WILL BE MERCIFUL UNTO HIS LAND, AND TO HIS PEOPLE._ Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people, х_ HARªNIYNUW_ (H7442) _ GOWYIM_ (H1471) _ `AMOW_ (H5971)] - shout for... [ Continue Reading ]