ISAIAH CHAPTER 34 God's fury and wrath against his church's enemies, ISAIAH 34:1. Their land utterly desolate, ISAIAH 34:11. The certainty hereof, and duration, ISAIAH 34:16,17. COME NEAR, YE NATIONS, TO HEAR; AND HEARKEN, YE PEOPLE; let the people of all nations take notice of what I am about to sa... [ Continue Reading ]
UPON ALL NATIONS; not only upon the Assyrians, and those nations which were confederate with them in this expedition, but upon all other enemies of my people whatsoever. HE HATH UTTERLY DESTROYED THEM; he will infallibly destroy all of them.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL BE CAST out into the fields, where they shall lie unburied, and be left for a prey to all ravenous birds and beasts; whereby he implies, either the vast numbers which shall be slain, so as they could not have time or place to bury them; or the curse of God upon them, and the people's contempt... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THE HOST OF HEAVEN; the sun, and moon, and stars. which frequently come under this name in Scripture, as DEUTERONOMY 4:19, DEUTERONOMY 17:3, and elsewhere. SHALL BE DISSOLVED; shall seem to be dissolved. So great shall be the confusion and consternation of mankind, as if all the frame of the cre... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL BE BATHED IN THE BLOOD OF THESE PEOPLE; Heb. _is or shall be made drunk. In heaven_; either, 1. In my church, which is called _heaven_, DANIEL 8:10 REVELATION 4:1, REVELATION 12:1, in and against which these enemies are said to be gathered together. Or, 2. In the highest heaven, where God dwe... [ Continue Reading ]
IS FILLED WITH BLOOD; shall drink its fill of blood. The metaphor is here taken from a great glutton or drunkard, who is almost insatiable with meat and drink. WITH THE BLOOD OF LAMBS AND GOATS, WITH THE FAT OF THE KIDNEYS OF RAMS: by, lambs, and goats, and rams, he means people of all ranks and con... [ Continue Reading ]
THE UNICORNS, Heb. _the reemim_. But what kind of beast this is, whether that beast which is commonly called an unicorn, which seems to be but a fiction in the judgment of the learned, or a rhinoceros, or a wild ox or bull, it is needless to trouble the ordinary reader about it; and the learned may... [ Continue Reading ]
This is the time which God hath long since appointed and fixed, to avenge the cause of his oppressed and persecuted people against all their enemies.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE STREAMS, which seem most secure from this danger, and much more the land. Idumea shall be dealt with as Sodom and Gomorrah were, even utterly destroyed, as it were, by fire, or burning pitch and brimstone thrown down upon it from heaven.... [ Continue Reading ]
It shall be irrecoverably ruined, and shall remain as a spectacle of God's vengeance to all succeeding ages.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CORMORANT AND THE BITTERN SHALL POSSESS IT, THE OWL ALSO AND THE RAVEN SHALL DWELL IN IT; the inhabitants shall be wholly cut off, and it shall be entirely possessed by those creatures which delight in deserts and waste places. See the same or like expressions in the like case, ISAIAH 13:21,22 I... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY SHALL CALL THE NOBLES THEREOF TO THE KINGDOM, BUT NONE SHALL BE THERE; they shall endeavour to heal their breaches, but in vain; the remnant of the people shall seek for any fit person, and offer the kingdom to him; but they shall not find any such who shall be willing to undertake the governme... [ Continue Reading ]
This is another mark and evidence of extreme desolation, as it is also, HOSEA 9:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SATYR SHALL CRY TO HIS FELLOW: SEE POOLE ON "ISAIAH 13:21". SEE POOLE ON "ISAIAH 13:22". THE SCREECH OWL ALSO SHALL REST THERE, because there shall be no men left to disturb or affright them, ISAIAH 17:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GREAT OWL; whether this or what other creature is meant by this Hebrew word, the learned reader may find largely discoursed in my Latin Synopsis upon this place; for others, it may suffice to know, what all agree in, that, whether it be a bird or a serpent, it is a creature that lives in desert... [ Continue Reading ]
SEEK YE OUT OF THE BOOK OF THE LORD, AND READ; when this judgment is executed, if you peruse this book of holy writ, and particularly this prophecy of mine, you will find that all things shall exactly come to pass as I have told you. NO ONE OF THESE SHALL FAIL, NONE SHALL WANT HER MATE: as I have sa... [ Continue Reading ]
He hath divided the land to them, as it were, by lot and line, as Canaan was divided among the Israelites.... [ Continue Reading ]