Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Isaiah 24:17
Great and various judgments, some actually inflicted, and others expected and justly feared, as the punishment of their last-mentioned treachery.
Great and various judgments, some actually inflicted, and others expected and justly feared, as the punishment of their last-mentioned treachery.
Verse Isaiah 24:17. _FEAR, AND THE PIT_ - "The terror, the pit"] If they escape one calamity, another shall overtake them. "As if a man should flee from a lion, and a bear should overtake him: Or s...
FEAR, AND THE PIT - This verse is an explanation of the cause of the wretchedness referred to in the previous verse. The same expression is found in Jeremiah 48:43, in his account of the destruction t...
CHAPTER 24 The Day of Jehovah 1. _Jehovah dealing with the earth(Isaiah 24:1)_ 2. _All classes affected (Isaiah 24:2)_ 3. _The Desolations described (Isaiah 24:3)_ 4. The Jewish Remnant during the tr...
ISAIAH 24. A WORLD-WIDE JUDGMENT FORETOLD. The apocalypse opens with the description of a judgment on the whole world. This judgment is predicted, it has not already happened. It will involve all in o...
FEAR, AND THE PIT, AND THE SNARE. Figure of speech _Synonymia_, and Figure of speech _Paonomasia_, not. "play on words", but for great and solemn emphasis. Hebrew. _paphad_, vapahath, happa vappaph (t...
This description of the judgment on the earth and its inhabitants seems to connect immediately with Isaiah 24:13. 17, 18a recur almost verbatim in Jeremiah 48:43 f. (cf. also Amos 5:19). 18B 20 descr...
FEAR, AND THE PIT, AND THE SNARE— The prophet proceeds to set forth the judgment itself, with its various gradations, the first of which is contained in these verses. The meaning is, that it should be...
3. JUDGMENT IS FROM JEHOVAH TEXT: Isaiah 24:17-23 17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. 18 And it shall come to pass that he who fleeth from the noise of t...
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. FEAR, AND THE PIT, AND THE SNARE. This verse explains the wretchedness spoken of in . Jeremiah () uses the same words. Th...
24:17 snare (f-7) See Jeremiah 48:43 ; 'fear,' 'pit,' 'snare,' in Hebrew make a play on words....
2. All class distinctions are obliterated and confused....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 24 GOD WILL DESTROY THE EARTH V1 Listen carefully! The *Lord intends to empty the la...
The similar use of ‘hole’ and ‘trap’ in Jeremiah 48:43-44 shows that this was a well-known picture in words. Someone escapes from one danger only to fall into another danger (see Amos 5:19). This woul...
פַּ֥חַד וָ פַ֖חַת וָ פָ֑ח עָלֶ֖יךָ יֹושֵׁ֥ב
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...
THE INESCAPABLE PENALTY OF SIN Isaiah 24:14-23 There is always a godly remnant, as we are told in Isaiah 24:13, remaining in times of shaking, on the topmost boughs. The survivors who had fled acros...
In these last Chapter s of the second circle, the prophet takes a still wider outlook. He sees how all the world is under the government of God. In this chapter the prophet states the fact in general...
_Snare. He alludes to the methods of taking wild beasts, Job xviii. 11. --- Opened, as they were in the days of Noe[Noah]. (Calmet) --- All sorts of misery hang over us._...
God's people feel their leanness, in times of general calamity. And no doubt, sorrow for sinners, as well as the distress they feel in themselves, have a great tendency to waste, and lower the spirits...
17_Fear, and the pit, and the snare. _The Prophet here discourses against the sins of the people. Formerly he declared that not only one nation, but very many and very distant nations, would have abun...
Chapter 24 sets before us the overturning of everything in the earth. The land of Israel is first in view. But there all the elements of all the systems of this world will be gathered together and jud...
FEAR, AND THE PIT, AND THE SNARE, [ARE] UPON THEE, O INHABITANT OF THE EARTH. This is to be understood not of the land of Judea only, and the inhabitants of it, but of all the earth; Kimchi interprets...
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, [are] upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. Ver. 17. _Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee._] _Metaphora a venatoribus,_ a metaphor from hunters, elegantl...
_Fear, and the pit, and the snare_, &c. Great and various judgments, some actually inflicted, and others justly feared, as the punishment of the last-mentioned perfidiousness of the Jews toward God an...
Fear and the pit and the snare are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. The Hebrew text here has an alliteration by means of which the very sound of the words conveys the dreadfulness of the judgment...
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE MASS OF THE EARTH...
16-23 Believers may be driven into the uttermost parts of the earth; but they are singing, not sighing. Here is terror to sinners; the prophet laments the miseries he saw breaking in like a torrent;...
Isaiah 24:17 Fear H6343 pit H6354 snare H6341 inhabitant H3427 (H8802) earth H776 and the pit -...
THE WORD OF JUDGMENT CONTINUES BUT YAHWEH WILL TRIUMPH WITH HIS PEOPLE (ISAIAH 24:16). Analysis. a ‘From the uttermost part of the earth we have heard songs, “Glory to the Righteous One” (Isaiah 24:...
CONTENTS: Looking through national troubles to the Kingdom age. The coming tribulation for the Jews, destruction of Gentile powers and opening of the Kingdom. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Earth, poll...
Isaiah 24:17. _Fear, and the pit._ This is a figure of hunting, the wild beasts being chased into pits dug in narrow passages, and covered with green branches. So the great ones should be caught, by t...
_Fear and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee_ FEAR, AND THE PIT, AND THE SNARE The expressions here used seem to have formed a proverbial saying, as appears from their being repeated by the proph...
SECTION VI. GOD'S GENERAL JUDGMENTS UPON THE EARTH (Isaiah 24-27.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 24:1 GOD'S JUDGMENTS ON THE WORLD AT
Now as we get into chapter 24, we get into, really, things that the earth will be facing very soon, because we get into things that will be happening during the Great Tribulation as the Lord is prepar...
1 Kings 19:17; Ezekiel 14:21; Jeremiah 48:43; Jeremiah 48:44;...
The snare — Great and various judgments, some actually inflicted, and others justly feared....