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Verse Isaiah 9:18. _FOR WICKEDNESS_] Wickedness rageth like a fire,
destroying and laying waste the nation: but it shall be its own
destruction, by bringing down the fire of God's wrath, which shall...
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FOR WICKEDNESS - This commences the third part of the prophecy, which
continues to the end of the chapter. It is a description of prevailing
impiety. The effects and prevalence of it are described by...
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CHAPTER 9
The Message of Hope Concerning Israel's Future and the Impending
Judgments
1. _The Messiah, His Name, His rule, His kingdom (Isaiah 9:1)_ 2.
_Judgment upon Israel (Isaiah 9:8)_ 3. The impen...
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ISAIAH 9:8 TO ISAIAH 10:4. YAHWEH SMITES EPHRAIM WITH STROKE AFTER
STROKE. It is generally agreed that Isaiah 5:26 formed the closing
strophe of this poem (p. 440). The date is probably before the
coa...
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WICKEDNESS. lawlessness. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44....
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Isaiah 9:8 to Isaiah 10:4 (+ Isaiah 5:25-30)
Jehovah's hand stretched out in wrath over His people. An oracle
against North Israel
The key-note of the prophecy is given in the recurrent refrain...
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The smouldering embers of wickedness burst out in a raging fire: see
Hosea's image of the oven, Isaiah 7:4; Isaiah 7:6.
_For wickedness … thickets_ Render, FOR WICKEDNESS BURNED LIKE A
FIRE THAT CONSU...
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Third strophe. As in ch. Isaiah 3:1-7, the removal of the pillars of
the state is followed by wild confusion and civil war. The state of
things alluded to can be partly realised from passages in the b...
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FOR WICKEDNESS, &C.— _For wickedness burneth as a fire,_ (_and it
shall devour the briers and thorns_) _and it burns up the thickets of
the forest, and they mount up curled, like,_ &c. We have here in...
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ISRAEL'S PERVERSITY
TEXT: Isaiah 9:18-21
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For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and
thorns; yea it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll
upward in a column o...
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For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and
thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall
mount up like the lifting up of smoke. FOR WICKEDNESS BURNETH...
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BRIERS AND THORNS] figuratively put for evil men (2 Samuel 23:6)....
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(CONTINUED)
8. Jacob.. Israel] Both names here stand for the northern kingdom, as
is made clear by what follows in the next v....
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DIVINE JUDGMENTS ON THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL
This section relates throughout to the kingdom of Israel. It belongs
to the same period as the Chapter s immediately preceding, and treats
of the ruin which I...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 9
THE FUTURE KING
V1 But soon, those who have suffered so gr...
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IT SHALL DEVOUR THE BRIERS AND THORNS... — The words are obviously
figurative for men who were base and vile, as in 2 Samuel 23:6; but
the figure may have been suggested by Isaiah 7:23. The outward
de...
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_[Isaiah 9:17]_ כִּֽי ־בָעֲרָ֤ה כָ † אֵשׁ֙...
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CHAPTER VII
THE MESSIAH
WE have now reached that point of Isaiah's prophesying at which the
Messiah becomes the most conspicuous figure on his horizon. Let us
take advantage of it to gather into one...
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CHAPTER III
THE VINEYARD OF THE LORD,
OR TRUE PATRIOTISM THE CONSCIENCE OF OUR COUNTRY'S SINS
735 B.C.
Isaiah 5:1; Isaiah 9:8 - Isaiah 10:4
THE prophecy contained in these Chapter s belongs, as we...
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SOCIAL INJUSTICE CONDEMNED
Isaiah 9:18-21; Isaiah 10:1-4
The terrible indictment of the preceding paragraphs is continued here.
Notice the awful monotony of the refrain, Isaiah 9:12; Isaiah 9:17;
Is...
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Here we have the message of hope (verses Isa 9:1-7) in the glorious
picture of the Coming Deliverer, with the equally glorious record of
the results of His Coming. It is one of the greatest Messianic...
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For wickedness (p) burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and
thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall
mount up [like] the rising of smoke.
(b) Wickedness as a...
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If the Reader will compare this chapter in the several parts of it,
with Leviticus 26:1, he will find a solemn explanation given of what
is here said, and mark the progression of divine visitations in...
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18._For wickedness burneth as the fire. _The Prophet attacks the
wicked, who are accustomed to defend themselves by laying the blame on
God. Either they practice evasions, in order to convince themsel...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9:1-7.
But this requires further development; and it is given in a remarkable
manner in the next prophecy, comprised in Chapter s 7, 8, 9 to the end...
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FOR WICKEDNESS BURNETH AS THE FIRE,.... That is, the punishment of
their sins, as the Targum interprets it; the wrath of God for sin,
which is poured out like fire, and consumes as that does; unless
w...
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For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and
thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall
mount up [like] the lifting up of smoke.
Ver. 18. _For wicked...
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_For wickedness burneth as fire_, &c. Rageth like a fire, destroying
and laying waste the nation. We have here the third great evil, on
account of which divine vengeance was about to come upon them; n...
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For wickedness burneth as the fire, challenging God to continue in His
course of punishment, bringing forth its own destruction; IT SHALL
DEVOUR THE BRIERS AND THORNS, the great mass of the lowly peop...
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Jehovah's Hand Stretched our in Judgment...
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8-21 Those are ripening apace for ruin, whose hearts are unhumbled
under humbling providences. For that which God designs, in smiting us,
is, to turn us to himself; and if this point be not gained by...
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WICKEDNESS BURNETH, i.e. shall burn you, as it follows, shall devour.
Your INIQUITY SHALL BE YOUR RUIN, as God threatens, EZEKIEL 18:30. THE
BRIERS AND THORNS; either,
1. The wicked, who are oft compa...
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Isaiah 9:18 wickedness H7564 burns H1197 (H8804) fire H784 devour H398
(H8799) briers H8068 thorns H7898 kindle...
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THE THIRD CHASTISEMENT. THE DISINTEGRATION OF THEIR SOCIETY (ISAIAH
9:18).
Analysis.
a For wickedness burns like a fire, it devours the thorns and the
thistles, yes, it kindles in the thickets of th...
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CONTENTS: A divine child, the only hope of Israel. Vision of the
outstretched hand. The unavailing chastisement.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Isaiah, Rezin.
CONCLUSION: In the worst of times, God's peopl...
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Isaiah 9:1. _The dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation._
Dr. Lightfoot infers from this, that there was much greater affliction
in the first days of her vexation. All the Versions differ ve...
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_For wickedness burneth as the fire_
WICKEDNESS AS FIRE
Wickedness, _i._., the constant willing of evil, is a fire which man
kindles in himself. And when the grace of God, which stifles and
checks th...
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THE DESTRUCTIVENESS OF SIN
Isaiah 9:18. _For wickedness burneth as the fire, &c._
One of the grandest and most fearful scenes in nature is a forest on
fire. This is the figure Isaiah employs to descr...
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EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 9:1
THE TROUBLES OF ISRAEL SHALL END THROUGH THE BIRTH OF A MARVELOUS
CHILD. The section of the prophecy commencing with...
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Now as we get into chapter 9, he said,
Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation,
when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the
land of Naphtali, and afte...
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Amos 7:4; Deuteronomy 32:22; Ezekiel 20:47; Ezekiel 20:48; Hebrews 6:8
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Burneth — Shall burn you, as it follows, shall devour. Thorns —
The low and mean persons; for these are opposed to the thickets of the
forest, in the next clause. Forest — In the wood, where the trees...