The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars, that is, they intended to replace their former lowly dwellings of dried clay and the cheap wood of the sycamore fig-tree by splendid palaces of stone and costly cedar-wood. It is the height of presumption and blasphemous pride if men scorn the punishment of the Lord.
Verse Isaiah 9:10. _THE BRICKS_] "The eastern bricks," says Sir _John_ _Chardin_, (see _Harmer's_ Observ. I., p. 176,) "are only clay well moistened with water, and mixed with straw, and dried in the...
THE BRICKS ARE FALLEN DOWN - The language of this verse is figurative; but the sentiment is plain. It contains the confession of the inhabitants of Samaria, that their affairs were in a ruinous and di...
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...
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...
The first strophe (Isaiah 9:8 being an introduction to the whole prophecy)....
It has been conjectured that these words are a fragment of a drinking song actually sung in Ephraim. They express the spirit of bravado which prevailed in the northern capital, cf. Amos 6:13; Hosea 7:...
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...
THE LORD SENT A WORD INTO JACOB— We have here the third section of the fifth discourse, which reaches to the fifth verse of the next chapter; it is divided into _four_ parts, and exhibits so many divi...
ISRAEL'S PRESUMPTION TEXT: Isaiah 9:8-17 8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. 9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say...
The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. THE BRICKS ARE FALLEN DOWN. In the East bricks are generally sun-dri...
(CONTINUED) 8. Jacob.. Israel] Both names here stand for the northern kingdom, as is made clear by what follows in the next v....
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...
If the language is to be understood literally, the allusion is to the way in which the people set themselves to repair, and more than make up for, the devastation caused by invasion. But it is more li...
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...
Samaria is another name for the northern part of the country (see my note at the beginning of Chapter 7). Its capital is also called Samaria....
THE BRICKS ARE FALLEN DOWN... — Sun-dried bricks and the cheap timber of the sycamore (1 Kings 10:27) were the common materials used for the dwellings of the poor, hewn stones and cedar for the palace...
_[Isaiah 9:9]_ לְבֵנִ֥ים נָפָ֖לוּ וְ גָזִ֣ית נִבְנֶ֑ה...
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...
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...
FALSE LEADERSHIP BRINGS RUIN Isaiah 9:8-17 The grievous sins of the Chosen People are again enumerated. They defied God, Isaiah 8:9-10. They refused to repent; they were blind and deaf and profane, I...
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...
The (n) bricks have fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change [them into] cedars. (n) We were but weak, when the enemy overcame us, but we will m...
What is here said, though it may have a peculiar reference to the state of the Church in the days of the prophet, is not so limited, but that it hath respect to the Church in all ages. The Lord hath s...
_PRESUMPTUOUS SELF-DECEIVERS_ ‘The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones.’ Isaiah 9:10 I. IT WAS DIFFICULT TO CONVINCE THESE ISRAELITES THAT THEY WERE SINNERS.—Driven from one...
10._The bricks are fallen down. _These are the words of men who were obstinate, and who despised the calamity which they had sustained, as if it had been of advantage to them, because it afforded them...
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...
THE BRICKS ARE FALLEN DOWN,.... Houses made of bricks, which were without the cities besieged and destroyed by the Assyrians; of which the haughty Israelites made no account, looking upon such a desol...
The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change [them into] cedars. Ver. 10. _The bricks are fallen down._] Not thrown down by Providenc...
Isa. 9:9, 10, etc. "And all the people shall know, even Ephraim, and the inhabitants of Samaria, that say in their pride and stoutness of heart, the bricks are hewn down, but we will build with hewn s...
_The Lord sent a word_, &c. A prophetical and threatening message by me: for now the prophet, having inserted some consolatory passages for the support of God's faithful people, returns to his former...
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...
THE BRICKS ARE FALLEN DOWN, BUT WE WILL BUILD WITH HEWN STONES. It is true, we have received some damages from our enemies; but Rezin and the Syrians being now our friends and confederates, we doubt n...
Isaiah 9:10 bricks H3843 down H5307 (H8804) rebuild H1129 (H8799) stones H1496 sycamores H8256 down H1438 ...
THE FIRST CHASTISEMENT, INVASION BY SYRIA AND PHILISTIA (ISAIAH 9:8). Analysis. · The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it has lighted on Israel (Isaiah 9:8). · And all the people will know, even Eph...
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...
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...
_The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones_ A DRINKING SONG It has been conjectured that these words are a fragment of a drinking song actually sung in Ephraim. (_Prof. J. Skin...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 9:8 PRIDE is the source of all the nation’s disasters. ⇐ ⇔
WISE LESSONS FROM WICKED LIPS Isaiah 9:10. _The bricks are fallen down, &c._ Jesus said, “The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light,” meaning that they excel...
THE DUTY OF THE AFFLICTED Isaiah 9:9. _And all the people shall know, &c._ God here complains of what Israel did when grievous and prolonged afflictions, sent by God, fell upon them [935] then they...
THE OUTSTRETCHED HAND OF GOD Isaiah 9:8 to Isaiah 10:4. _But His hand is stretched out still_. Much is said in the Bible concerning the hand of God [926] Consider what the hand is to man: it is the c...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 9:1 THE TROUBLES OF ISRAEL SHALL END THROUGH THE BIRTH OF A MARVELOUS CHILD. The section of the prophecy commencing with...
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...
1 Kings 10:27; 1 Kings 7:9; Malachi 1:4...
Stones — We have received some damage; but, we doubt not we shall quickly repair it with advantage....