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YEA, THE FIR TREES REJOICE AT THEE - They join with the inhabitants of
the nations in rejoicing at thy downfall - for they now, like those
inhabitants, are suffered to remain undisturbed. (On the word...
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CHAPTER 14
Israel's Restoration and Blessing After Babylon is Fallen and the
Burden of Philistia
1. _Israel's restoration and exaltation (Isaiah 14:1)_ 2. _The proverb
against the king of Babylon (Is...
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ISAIAH 13:1 TO ISAIAH 14:23. THE UTTER RUIN OF BABYLON AND TRIUMPHAL
ODE OVER HER MONARCH'S DEATH. Historical conditions are here
presupposed entirely different from those of Isaiah's time. The
subjec...
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FIR TREES. Compare Isaiah 37:24; Isaiah 41:19; Isaiah 55:13; Isaiah
60:13.
THE CEDARS OF LEBANON, BAYING, &C. It refers to Nebuch
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_b_ 8. The first strophe is like a sigh of relief breathed by the
whole of creation, when the disturber of its peace has vanished from
the scene....
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_b_ 21. The song of triumph over the king of Babylon is one of the
finest specimens of Hebrew poetry which the Old Testament contains. A
division into five strophes, each containing seven long lines,...
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_the fir trees_ Some render "cypresses."
_no feller is come up_ Assyrian kings frequently mention among their
exploits the cutting of trees in Lebanon and Amanus. Nebuchadnezzar,
whose inscriptions h...
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN
2.
BABYLON (Continued)
a. DESPISED
TEXT: Isaiah 14:1-11
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For Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel,
and set them in their own land; and the sojourner...
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That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and
say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
-A CHORUS OF JEWS EXPRESS THEIR JOYFUL SURPRISE AT BABYLON'S DOWNFA...
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1. STRANGERS] The thought of the voluntary adhesion of strangers is
prominent in the later Chapter s of the book (Isaiah 44:5; Isaiah
55:5; Isaiah 60:5)....
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THE JUDGMENT OF BABYLON AND ITS KING
This is the first of a series of prophecies dealing mainly with
foreign nations. Its subject is Babylon, where the Jews are
represented as undergoing exile, from w...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 14
THE *LORD’S PEOPLE WILL COME HOME
V1 The *Lord will pity the peo...
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The evil rulers had been using masses of wood for fuel and when they
attacked the walls of cities. They had no consideration for the
future. Trees need years to grow....
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YEA, THE FIR TREES REJOICE AT THEE. — The tree has been identified
(Carruthers, in _Bible Educator, 4,_ 359) with the Aleppo pine (_Pinus
halepensis_)_,_ which grows abundantly on the Lebanon range ab...
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גַּם ־בְּרֹושִׁ֛ים שָׂמְח֥וּ לְךָ֖
אַרְזֵ֣י לְבָנֹ֑ון...
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BOOK 5
PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME
In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half
which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary
with that - we...
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CHAPTER XXVII
BABYLON AND LUCIFER
DATE UNCERTAIN
Isaiah 13:1; Isaiah 14:1
THIS double oracle is against the City Isaiah 13:2; I
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Anticipating the great day of restoration, the prophet puts into the
mouth of Israel the great parable or song which celebrates the
downfall of Assyria. This moves in five distinct strophes. In the
fi...
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I do not interrupt the reading through this long chain of the most
wonderful events, because it forms one grand whole. The destruction
which will ultimately fall upon the enemies of God and of his Chr...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14.
With chapter 12 one division of the whole book closes. That which
commences with chapter 13 continues to the end of chapter 27, which
describes th...
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YEA, THE FIR TREES REJOICE AT THEE, [AND] THE CEDARS OF LEBANON,....
Which by, a prosopopoeia are represented as singing and rejoicing, as
inanimate creatures often are in Scripture, these being now i...
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_Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, [and] the cedars of Lebanon,
[saying], Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us._
Ver. 8. _Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee._] A notable metaph...
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_He that ruled the nations in anger_ With rigour, and not with
clemency; _is persecuted and none hindereth_ Neither the Babylonians
themselves nor their confederates. _The whole earth is at rest_ The...
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1-23 The whole plan of Divine Providence is arranged with a view to
the good of the people of God. A settlement in the land of promise is
of God's mercy. Let the church receive those whom God receive...
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THE CEDARS OF LEBANON, which were felled down for the service of her
pride and luxury, but now are suffered to stand and flourish. It is a
figure usual in sacred and profane writers, called prosopopae...
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Isaiah 14:8 trees H1265 rejoice H8055 (H8804) cedars H730 Lebanon
H3844 down H7901 (H8804) woodsman H3772 ...
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THE DEMISE OF BABYLON AND HUMILIATION OF ITS BOASTFUL KINGS (ISAIAH
14:3).
The coming of the Babylonian ambassadors to Hezekiah had had a
profound influence on Isaiah. As he thought on the future, wit...
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Isaiah 14:1. _For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet
choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall
be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jaco...
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CONTENTS: Christ's Kingdom set up on earth with Israel restored, the
Beast of hell. Satan's fall and doom. Babylon's final judgment.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: It is the comfort of God's people tha...
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Isaiah 14:1. _And set them in their own land._ This prediction is so
correct, as appears from the books of Nehemiah and Ezra, that no man
can doubt the truth of prophecy; and its literal accomplishmen...
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_Thou shalt take up this proverb against the King of Babylon_
THE “PROVERB AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON”
Lowth is generally thought not to speak with exaggeration when he
calls it the finest [song] o...
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EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 14:1
THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL, AND HER SONG OF TRIUMPH OVER BABYLON. The
destruction of Babylon is to be followed by the restoration of Israel,
with the good w
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For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and
set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with
them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob (Isaiah 14:1...
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Ezekiel 31:16; Isaiah 55:12; Isaiah 55:13; Zechariah 11:2...
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The trees — Which were felled for the service of her pride and
luxury, but now are suffered to stand....