For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, after the blossom has withered, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, while the fruit is slowly maturing, He shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks and take away and cut down the branches. Then the Lord would overthrow their present plans and prevent them from forming any future ones.
Verse Isaiah 18:5. _THE FLOWER_ - "The blossom"] Heb. _her_ blossom; נצה _nitstsah_, that is, _the blossom of the vine_, גפן gephen, vine, understood, which is of the common gender. See Genesis 40:10...
FOR AFORE THE HARVEST - This verse is evidently figurative, and the image is drawn from that which is commenced in the previous verse. There, God is represented as calmly regarding the plans of the pe...
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 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...
Assyria is here compared to a vine, ripening its grapes under the favourable influences indicated in Isaiah 18:4. The word for _harvest_does not strictly denote "vintage" (see on ch. Isaiah 16:9); eit...
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 afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. FOR - ra...
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...
WHEN THE BUD.. FLOWER] RV 'when the blossom is over and the flower becometh a ripening grape.' The Assyrian plans are maturing (under apparently favourable conditions, Isaiah 18:4), but just as they b...
The *Lord will use some nation’s army to destroy the huge forces of Cush. He, and not some political leader, is in control of the events of history....
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...
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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...
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...
5._For when the harvest shall be at hand. _Literally it is, “in presence of the harvest;” but we must soften the harshness of the expressions; and it cannot be doubted that the meaning of the Prophet...
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 AFORE THE HARVEST,.... Or vintage: the above metaphor is carried on; before the designs and schemes of the people above described are ripe for execution, who promised themselves a large harvest of...
For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away [and] cut down the branches. Ver. 5. _...
_For afore the harvest_ Here the Lord informs his people how he would act toward those of their adversaries, for whom he had prepared this great slaughter. He compares them to a vine, which, after it...
AFORE THE HARVEST; before they receive the end of their hopes, and finish the work which they have designed and begun. WHEN THE BUD IS PERFECT, AND THE SOUR GRAPE IS RIPENING IN THE FLOWER; when the b...
Isaiah 18:5 before H6440 harvest H7105 bud H6525 perfect H8552 (H8800) grape H1155 ripening H1580 (H8802) flower...
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...
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...
Ezekiel 17:6; Isaiah 17:11; Song of Solomon 2:13; Song of Solomon 2:15...
For — Before they receive the end of their hopes. When — When the bud or flower is turned into a grape, which gives hopes of good vintage. He — The Lord. The branches — Instead of gathering the grapes...