Place. God rules all with ease. --- Harvest. The allies shall comfort my people, (Calmet) or Sennacherib shall threaten ruin. (Haydock) --- But I will frustrate his evil designs. His army shall perish unexpectedly, ver. 5. (Calmet) --- The Egyptians had sent messengers to assure the Israelites that they would come to assist them: but the prophet informs them of their own ruin. (Worthington)
Verse Isaiah 18:4. _FOR SO THE LORD SAID UNTO ME_ - "For thus hath JEHOVAH said unto me"] The subject of the remaining part of this chapter is, that God would comfort and support his own people, thou...
FOR SO THE LORD SAID UNTO ME - So Yahweh has revealed his purpose, that is, to execute punishment on the people who have been described in the previous verses. Their state as there described is that o...
CHAPTER 18 When Israel Will be Brought Back 1. _The land beyond the rivers of Ethiopia (Isaiah 18:1)_ 2. _The ambassadors sent (Isaiah 18:2)_ 3. _The trumpet blown and Jehovah's Message (Isaiah 18:3)...
ISAIAH 18. ISAIAH DISCOURAGES THE SCHEMES OF ETHIOPIA. This chapter is probably connected with the policy of the Egyptian alliance so frequently denounced by Isaiah in 29- 31. Here the negotiations se...
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. CLOUD OF DEW. summer night mist. Hebrew. _'ab._ Not. raincloud, which latter is never seen in harvest. Eight times rendered "thick clouds"....
The purpose of Jehovah, as disclosed to Isaiah by special revelation. The opening words point back to a definite time when this illumination came to him, whether in a moment of ecstasy or not it is im...
_I will take … consider_ Better: I WILL QUIETLY LOOK ON, the first verb being subordinate to the second. _like a clear heat upon herbs_ Translate as R.V.: LIKE CLEAR HEAT IN (or, along with) SUNSHINE...
FOR SO THE LORD SAID, &C.— We have here the divine judgment to be inflicted upon the Assyrian in its due time. The passage is obscure and difficult. The _first_ part of it sets forth, figuratively, Je...
C. INCESSANT EGYPTIANS - Chapter S 18-20 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 1. ETHIOPIA TEXT: Isaiah 18:1-7 1 Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; 2 that sendeth ambassado...
For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. FOR SO THE LORD SAID UNTO M...
18:4 herbs, (k-24) Or 'like clear heat by sunshine.'...
ETHIOPIA REASSURED Isaiah here addresses the Ethiopians, who, agitated at the advance of the Assyrians west-ward, were sending ambassadors to other states to organise resistance. He foretells the sudd...
The v. vividly depicts the calmness of Jehovah in contrast to the unrest amongst the nations. LIKE.. HERBS] RM 'when there is clear heat in sunshine.'...
The *Lord remains calm. What is about to happen between nations does not affect him in any way. But when he sees that the time is right, he will suddenly act. Then nothing can stop him. Nobody can sto...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 18 GOD WILL PUNISH CUSH V1 *Woe to the country called Cush where cl...
כִּי֩ כֹ֨ה אָמַ֤ר יְהוָה֙ אֵלַ֔י _אֶשְׁקֳטָ֖ה_† וְ...
CHAPTER XVII ISAIAH TO THE FOREIGN NATIONS 736-702 B.C. Isaiah 14:24; Isaiah 15:1; Isaiah 16:1; Isaiah 17:1;...
This is the second of the prophet's soliloquies, and is of the nature of a proclamation to certain ambassadors who are charged to return to their people and to wait for Jehovah. This charge is deliver...
For so the LORD said to me, I will take my (g) rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a (h) clear heat upon herbs, [and] like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. (g) I will stay a whi...
Here the Lord soundeth an alarm to, all the enemies of his Church; and they are admonished to attend to the sound of the trumpet, that then the Lord goeth forth for the salvation of his people, even f...
_JEHOVAH RESTING_ ‘For so the Lord said unto me, I will take my rest.’ Isaiah 18:4 Notice what is for us of commanding interest in this chapter, the prophet’s _ conception_ of history, or, to put i...
4._But thus said Jehovah unto me. _After having threatened a slaughter of the Ethiopians or their neighbors, and at the same time shewn that comfort will arise from it to the Jews, or ironically repro...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 15, 16, 17, AND 18. In Chapter s 15 and 16 Moab is judged. They are warned that the throne of David shall be established, and the oppressor consumed out of th...
FOR SO THE LORD SAID UNTO ME,.... The prophet Isaiah, both what goes before, and follows after: I WILL TAKE MY REST; these are not the words of the prophet, as some think, like those of Habakkuk, Hab...
For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, [and] like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. Ver. 4. _I will take my res...
_For so the Lord said unto me_ That is, revealed this thing to me from his secret purposes; _I will take my rest_ While the Assyrian is forming designs for the destruction of my people, I will seem to...
For so the Lord said unto me, I will take My rest, and I will consider in My dwelling-place, calmly looking on, apparently without the intention of interfering, like a clear heat upon herbs, while it...
PROPHECY AGAINST ETHIOPIA....
CONSIDER IN MY DWELLING PLACE: Or, regard my set dwelling UPON HERBS: Or, after rain...
I WILL TAKE MY REST, I will sit still, and not bestir myself, either to help this people, or to hinder their enemies. God is said in Scripture _to rest_ or _sit still_, when he doth not work on the be...
Isaiah 18:4 so H3541 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8804) rest H8252 (H8799) look H5027 (H8686) place...
ANALYSIS OF ISAIAH 18:1. a Ah, the land of the whirring of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Cush, which sends messengers by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters. “Go you swift messen...
Isaiah 18:4 I. Consider the characteristics of the Divine dwelling-place. God's works are not enough for Him. He dwells with His people. He takes delight in His people. God's chosen residence is a ren...
CONTENTS: Woe of the land beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, in the day of Israel's regathering. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Though God's covenant people are trampled on as a nation, scattered and abus...
Isaiah 18:1. _Woe to the land shadowing with wings_ranges of inaccessible mountains called the mountains of the moon, and those to the east between the Nile and the Red sea. The Nile divided amidst th...
_For so the Lord said unto me, I will take My rest_ THE REST OF PROVIDENCE Although much diversity of opinion exists among commentators in regard to the primary design of the prophecy from which thi...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 18:4 Working as silently as HEAT or DEW, God frustrates human attempts to rule the world. He acts when the moment is right. This is the truth underlying the appearance of human m...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 18:1 THE HOMAGE OF ETHIOPIA TO JEHOVAH. Amid the general excitement caused by the advance of Assyria, Ethiopia also is stirred, and stirred to its furthest limits. The king sends me...
Now in chapter 18, there are those that see the United States in chapter 18, but it is rather far-fetched and I am sorry that my mind can't stretch that far. I cannot see the United States in chapter...
2 Samuel 23:4; Hosea 5:15; Isaiah 12:6; Isaiah 14:32; Isaiah 18:7;...
Rest — I will not bestir myself, to help this people. God is said in scripture to rest, or sit still, when he doth not work on the behalf of a person or people. Dwelling — place — In heaven, the place...