George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 64:2
They. Septuagint, "As wax melts before the fire, so also fire will burn the adversaries, and thy," &c. (Haydock) --- Burn. Sparks of fire seem to proceed from it.
They. Septuagint, "As wax melts before the fire, so also fire will burn the adversaries, and thy," &c. (Haydock) --- Burn. Sparks of fire seem to proceed from it.
Verse Isaiah 64:2. _AS WHEN THE MELTING FIRE BURNETH_ - "As the fire kindleth the dry fuel"] המסים _hamasim_. "It means _dry stubble_, and the root is המס _hamas_," says _Rabbi Jonah_, apud _Sal. ben...
AS WHEN THE MELTING FIRE BURNETH - Margin, ‘The fire of meltings.’ Lowth renders it, ‘As when the fire kindleth the dry fuel.’ So Noyes, ‘As fire kindleth the dry stubble.’ The Septuagint render it: Ω...
CHAPTER 63:7-19-64:12 The Great Intercessory Prayer 1. _Jehovah's loving kindness and power in the past remembered (Isaiah 63:7) _ 2. _Their deepest need (Isaiah 63:15) _ 3. The cry of faith, Thou ar...
ISAIAH 63:15 TO ISAIAH 64:9. A FERVENT PRAYER TO YAHWEH TO INTERVENE AGAIN FOR HIS CHILDREN. The appeal rings like a litany, reminding Yahweh, who has withdrawn into His glorious heavenly palace, of H...
MELTING. The Hebrew word occurs only here, and is plural. THY NAME. See note on Psalms 20:1....
Render: AS FIRE KINDLETH BRUSHWOOD, AS FIRE MAKETH WATER BOIL, &c. _to make thy name known to thine adversaries &c._ the purpose of the Theophany. Cf. ch. Isaiah 59:18-19....
Isaiah 63:7 to Isaiah 64:12. A Prayer of the People for the Renewal of Jehovah's former Lovingkindness (1) Isaiah 63:7. The prayer begins with thankful commemoration of Jehovah's goodness to the nati...
Isaiah 64:1. The language of complaint again gives place (as in Isaiah 63:15) to impatient prayer for a Theophany, an imposing manifestation of Jehovah in His might. It is the great "day of the Lord...
OH THAT THOU WOULDST REND, &C.— _Wouldst rend,_ &c. Isaiah 64:2 _as the fire kindleth the dry fuel; as the fire causeth the waters to boil,_ &c. Lowth. The ideas are here taken from the descent of God...
D. RESTLESSNESS OF ZION (cont-'d), Chapter S 63 - 64 4. PENITENTLY VEXED TEXT: Isaiah 64:1-7 1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake a...
As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! AS (WHEN) THE MELTING FIRE BURNETH,...
1-3. The imagery is taken from the account of the divine manifestation at Sinai (Exodus 19:18)....
RV 'As when fire kindleth the brushwood, _and_ the fire causeth,' etc....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 64 This chapter continues the people’s desperate prayer, which began at...
Fire is a sign that God is present (see Exodus 3:2; see also Acts 2:3). But he is not there just to look. He comes to act. Like fire, he makes things happen. Fire causes bushes to burn and water to b...
These verses contain a series of word pictures that describe the effect of God’s arrival....
AS WHEN THE MELTING FIRE BURNETH... — Better, _as when fire Kindleth brushwood, as when fire causeth the water to boil._ The two-fold action of material fire is used, as elsewhere, as a symbol of the...
_[Isaiah 64:1]_ כִּ קְדֹ֧חַ אֵ֣שׁ הֲמָסִ֗ים מַ֚יִם...
CHAPTER XXV A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1 WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemption had re...
A CRY FOR PARDON Isaiah 64:1-12 _The great past_, Isaiah 64:1-5. We are introduced to the prophet's oratory and hear the outpourings of his heart. As he recalls the story of bygone days, he asks that...
The praise and confession merge into a prayer in which the sore need of the people is first described, and then a cry full of intense anguish is lifted for the dawning of the day when Jehovah will act...
As [when] the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth (b) the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thy adversaries, [that] the nations may tremble at thy presence! (b) Meaning, the rain, hail, fi...
Here is a most fervent, animated prayer, in which the Church petitions her Lord, that by the sovereignty of his grace, and the outpouring of his Holy Spirit, he would so come forth, and come down in t...
2._As by the burning of a melting fire, _(186) the fire hath made the water to boil. All this might be read either in the future or in the subjunctive; as if he had said, “O Lord, if thou camest down,...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 64 AND 65. The next two Chapter s give us a full revelation of the dealings of God in answer to this appeal. First of all, God, through His grace, had been so...
AS WHEN THE MELTING FIRE BURNETH,.... Or, "the fire of melting" k; a strong vehement fire, as Kimchi, such as is used under a furnace for melting metals; though De Dieu thinks a slow gentle fire is in...
As [when] the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, [that] the nations may tremble at thy presence! Ver. 2. _As when the melting fire...
_O that thou wouldest rend the heavens_ This God is said to do, or to _bow the heavens, and come down_, when he gives a very signal display of his power. It is a metaphor taken from men who, when they...
as when the melting fire burneth, consuming brushwood in the twinkling of an eye, THE FIRE CAUSETH THE WATERS TO BOIL, literally, "as fire makes the water swell and seethe," TO MAKE THY NAME KNOWN TO...
V. 1. OH, THAT THOU WOULDEST REND THE HEAVENS, so the suppliant now begs the Lord, THAT THOU WOULDEST COME DOWN, bursting forth to execute vengeance, suddenly descending on Thy people's foes, THAT THE...
THE MELTING FIRE: _ Heb._ the fire of meltings...
1-5 They desire that God would manifest himself to them and for them, so that all may see it. This is applicable to the second coming of Christ, when the Lord himself shall descend from heaven. They...
AS WHEN THE MELTING FIRE BURNETH; come with such zeal for thy people, that the solid mountains may be no more before thy breath than metal that runs, or water that boils by the force of a vehement fir...
Isaiah 64:2 fire H784 burns H6919 (H8800) brushwood H2003 fire H784 water H4325 boil H1158 name H8034 known...
ISAIAH'S HEART CRY TO YAHWEH FOR HIM TO WORK DRAMATICALLY (ISAIAH 64:1). Isaiah 64:1 ‘Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, That the mountains might flow down at your presen...
Isaiah 64:1 I. This is nothing less than a prayer that God would manifest Himself as a Judge yes, and as a Destroyer. Isaiah craved for a man who should deliver men from the oppressions of the world's...
Isaiah 64:1. _Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, as when the melting fire burneth,_ Or, much better, «as when th...
CONTENTS: Fear and hope of remnant of Israel in day of vengeance. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: The remnant of Israel in the day of Christ's vengeance will bewail their sins, thereby justifyi...
Isaiah 64:1. A new scene of prophetic events opens here, where the prophet in time of trouble cries the more in spirit to the Messiah. _Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens and come down._ It is str...
_Oh that Thou wouldest rend the heavens_ PRAYER FOR DIVINE MANIFESTATION I. This is nothing less than A PRAYER THAT GOD WOULD MANIFEST HIMSELF AS A JUDGE--yes, and as a Destroyer. Isaiah craved for a...
A PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL REVIVAL Isaiah 64:1. _Oh that Thou wouldst rend the heavens, that Thou wouldst come down, &c._ It is not into the mouth of every Israelite that the prophet puts this prayer: on...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 64:1 ISRAEL'S PRAYER CONTINUED AND CONCLUDED. Not content with praying God to look upon them once more with favour (Isaiah 63:15), Israel now asks for a theophany, or manifesta
Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, and that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, As when the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil, and makes thy...
1 Kings 8:41; 1 Samuel 17:46; 1 Samuel 17:47; Daniel 4:1; Daniel 4:
Fire — Come with such zeal for thy people, that the solid mountains may be no more before thy breath, than metal that runs, or water that boils by the force of a vehement fire. Known — That thine enem...