ISAIAH CHAPTER 27 God's care over his vineyard ISAIAH 27:1. His chastisements on them, ISAIAH 27:7. His severe judgments against them, ISAIAH 27:10,11. Their return, ISAIAH 27:12,13. SHALL PUNISH LEVIATHAN; what kind of creature the leviathan is, SEE POOLE ON "JOB 41:1", &c.; whence it is evident th... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THAT DAY; when this potent enemy shall be destroyed\'b7 A VINEYARD OF RED WINE: the words in the Hebrew text lie thus, _A vineyard_ (Behold, a vineyard; or, Jacob or Israel, my church and people, which is sufficiently understood from the next verse, and is expressed ISAIAH 27:6, shall be a vineya... [ Continue Reading ]
I THE LORD DO KEEP IT; I will secure it, that neither men, nor beasts, nor drought shall spoil it; which alone are the things that can hurt it. I will protect my church from all the assaults of her enemies, and supply her with all necessary provisions, with my ordinances, and with my Spirit and grac... [ Continue Reading ]
FURY, to wit, against my vineyard, or my people; which is easily understood both from the foregoing and following verses. I have been displeased with them, and have chastised them; but I am not implacable towards them, and resolved utterly to destroy them, as their enemies are, and would have me to... [ Continue Reading ]
OR, or if at any time fury be, or seem to be, in me against my vineyard or people, LET HIM, my people, as is clearly implied from the following words; _for there is no peace_ to those who are not God's people, or to the wicked, ISAIAH 57:21, and is expressed in the following verse; _take hold of my... [ Continue Reading ]
TO TAKE ROOT; to be firmly settled in their possessions, and not tossed hither and thither, as they have been. FILL THE FACE OF THE WORLD WITH FRUIT; their posterity shall be so numerous, that their own land shall not be sufficient for them, but they shall be forced to seek habitations in other coun... [ Continue Reading ]
HATH HE SMITTEN HIM, AS HE SMOTE THOSE THAT SMOTE HIM? the question implies a denial; he hath not so smitten him, to wit, Jacob. He hath not dealt so severely with his people as he hath dealt with his and their enemies, whom he hath utterly destroyed. This may look either, 1. Backward, upon times p... [ Continue Reading ]
IN MEASURE; with moderation, in certain proportions which God meteth out and fitteth to their strength. _When it shooteth forth_; when the vine shooteth forth its luxuriant branches, he, like the vine-dresser, cutteth them off, but so as not to spoil or destroy the vine. Or, as divers interpreters r... [ Continue Reading ]
By this, by this manner of God's dealing with his people, therefore, that the difference between Jacob and his enemies in their several sufferings may appear, SHALL THE INIQUITY OF JACOB BE PURGED, Heb. _expiated or forgiven upon their true repentance_, which shall be the happy effect of their chast... [ Continue Reading ]
YET; yet before this glorious promise concerning the removal of Israel's sin and calamity be fulfilled, a dreadful and desolating judgment shall first come upon them. THE DEFENCED CITY; Jerusalem, and the rest of the defenced cities in the land, the singular number being put for the plural. THE HABI... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN THE BOUGHS THEREOF ARE WITHERED; when they shall begin to wither, as they will when they are thus gnawed and cropped by cattle. THEY SHALL BE BROKEN OFF, that there may be no hopes nor possibility of their recovery. THE WOMEN; he mentions women, either because it is their usual work in the coun... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL BEAT OFF; or, _shall beat out_; which is not meant in a way of punishment, which is rather designed by _threshing_, as ISAIAH 21:10, ISAIAH 25:10, than by beating; but as an act of mercy, as is evident from the following clause of this, and from the next verse. It is a metaphor from some grain... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GREAT TRUMPET; which may be heard even to the remotest parts of the earth. God shall summon them all together as it were by sound of trumpet, to wit, by an eminent call or act of his providence on their behalf. He alludes to the custom of calling the Israelites, together with trumpets; of which... [ Continue Reading ]