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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Isaiah 23:9

The Lord of hosts hath purposed it; this is the Lord's own doing; therefore do not doubt it, nor wonder at it. God's design is by this one example to abate and abase the pride of all the potentates of the earth, that they may see and know what weak and wretched creatures they are, when God leaves them, and sets himself against them.

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See also Isaiah 23:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE LORD OF HOSTS HATH PURPOSED IT - (see the note at Isaiah 1:9). It is not by human counsel that it has been done. Whoever is the instrument, yet the overthrow of wicked, proud, and vicious cities a...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 23 The Burden of Tyre 1. _Tyre's great disaster (Isaiah 23:1)_ 2. _The complete overthrow (Isaiah 23:6)_ 3. _Tyre's future restoration and degradation (Isaiah 23:15)_ Tyre typifies the commer...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 23. ORACLE ON TYRE. The date and authorship are alike very uncertain. If by Isaiah, the occasion may be the siege of Tyre by Shalmaneser about 727- 722 (p. 59), the historicity of which, howeve...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LORD OF HOSTS. See note on Isaiah 1:9. STAIN. pollute....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    This is the execution of Jehovah's purpose, and therefore irreversible. _the crowning city_ Or, THE CROWN-GIVER. Tyre is rightly so-called, inasmuch as some of her colonies (Kition, Tarshish and Cart...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jehovah has purposed it in accordance with a fixed principle of His government. _to stain_(render TO DESECRATE) _the pride of all glory_ The thought is the same as in ch. Isaiah 2:12 ff. For this use...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WHO HATH TAKEN THIS COUNSEL, &C.— The prophet here informs us of the great executor of this judgment, namely, God himself. To do this the more elegantly, he introduces a chorus of men, astonished at t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    b. SHAKEN TEXT: Isaiah 23:8-14 8 Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth? 9 Jehovah of hosts hat...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth. THE LORD OF HOSTS. Whoever be the instruments in overthrowing haugh...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DOOM OF TYRE Tyre was a great mercantile centre of the ancient world, and at the time of the Hebrew monarchy chief state of Phœnicia, the parent of many colonies, and mistress of the Mediterranea...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 23 All the verses in this chapter refer to both Tyre and Sidon. This is so even if on...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    But their success had not impressed God. Such people felt that they had no need of God....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֹ֖ות יְעָצָ֑הּ לְ חַלֵּל֙ גְּאֹ֣ון...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XVIII TYRE; OR, THE MERCENARY SPIRIT 702 B.C. Isaiah 23:1 THE task, which was laid upon the religion of Israel while Isaiah was its prophet, was the task, as we have often told ourselves, o...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The burden of Tyre opens with a graphic description of her desolation. Her harbors are closed. Her borders are desolate. The sea, which had been her highway, is abandoned, and Egypt, her ally, is affr...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    There is hardly a passage in the whole prophecy of Isaiah more full and comprehensive than what is contained in these verses, to set forth man's nothingness, and the Lord's all-sufficiency. The Prophe...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    9._To profane the pride, _or, _to profane the loftiness; _for it may be read either way, because loftiness leads to pride, and where loftiness or a high spirit is found, there seldom is humility. But...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. In Chapter s 19 and 20 Egypt shall be smitten in that day; but Jehovah will heal it. Egypt, Assyria, and Israel shall together be blessed of Je...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THE LORD OF HOSTS HATH PURPOSED IT,.... To destroy Tyre; who is wonderful in counsel, capable of forming a wise scheme, and able to put it in execution; being the Lord of armies in heaven and in earth...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, [and] to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth. Ver. 9. _The Lord of hosts hath purposed it._] Here the prophet sets...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre?_ Words of admiration. Who, and where, is he that could imagine, or durst attempt such a thing as this? This is the work of God, and not of man. _The crowning...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, He who has the fortunes of all men in His hands, TO STAIN THE PRIDE OF ALL GLORY, to profane, to bring shame upon that which the Tyrians wrongfully elevated, AND TO...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE FALL OF TYREV. 1. THE BURDEN OF TYRE, the proud Phoenician metropolis, which withstood the attacks of several Assyrian armies and endured a siege of thirteen years by Nebuchadnezzar, but was destr...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    TO STAIN: _ Heb._ to pollute...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-14 Tyre was the mart of the nations. She was noted for mirth and diversions; and this made her loth to consider the warnings God gave by his servants. Her merchants were princes, and lived like pri...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 23:9 LORD H3068 hosts H6635 purposed H3289 (H8804) dishonor H2490 (H8763) pride H1347 glory H6643 contempt...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    LAMENT OVER TYRE (ISAIAH 23:1). The final burden is the burden of Tyre and Sidon. These were two wealthy and powerful seaports on the Mediterranean coast from which ships went out to all parts of the...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Burden of Tyre. Desolations preceding the final deliverance of Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The proud boasts of worldly nations, who bid defiance to their neighbors, will surely be...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 23:1. _The burden of Tyre._ This was one of the most ancient cities of Phœnicia, situate on a rock, seven hundred paces from the shore, though now joined to the land by the working of the sea....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory_ GOD ABASES PRIDE In this message there is a revelation of the Divine method in dealing with men and nations. For here the Divine...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The burden of Tyre_ THE PROPHECY AGAINST TYRE: LESSONS The Tarshish of this chapter is Spain. Chittim is the island of Cyprus. The word “merchant” is the same word that is rendered in other places...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 23:1 The fifth oracle concerns the judgment and redemption of Tyre. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 23:7 The devastation of the city prompts the deeper question, Who could decree the downfall of so great a human power? THE LORD OF HOSTS. See...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 23:1 THE BURDEN OF TYRE. We hero reach the last of the "burdens"—the concluding chapter of the series of denunciatory prophecies which commenced with Isaiah 13:1. It is an elegy "in...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter 23 he takes up his burden against Tyre. Tyre was, of course, a seaport town. It was the area... The people of Tyre were known as Phoenicians. And so you who are versed in your ancient h...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 1:26; Acts 4:28; Daniel 4:37; Ephesians 1:11; E

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The Lord — This is the Lord's own doing. To stain — God's design is by this example to abase the pride of all the potentates of the earth....

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