Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 13:7
Amazed — To see so impregnable a city as Babylon, so easily and unexpectedly taken. Flames — Heb. faces of flame, inflamed with rage and torment.
Amazed — To see so impregnable a city as Babylon, so easily and unexpectedly taken. Flames — Heb. faces of flame, inflamed with rage and torment.
THEREFORE SHALL ALL HANDS BE FAINT - This is designed to denote the consternation and alarm of the people. They would be so terrified and alarmed that they would have no courage, no hope, and no power...
2. THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS AND THE FUTURE DAY OF JEHOVAH (13-27) CHAPTER 13 The Burden of Babylon 1. _Jehovah's call to the judgment of Babylon (Isaiah 13:1)_ 2. _The day of Jehovah: When Babylo...
ISAIAH 13:1 TO ISAIAH 14:23. THE UTTER RUIN OF BABYLON AND TRIUMPHAL ODE OVER HER MONARCH'S DEATH. Historical conditions are here presupposed entirely different from those of Isaiah's time. The subjec...
MAN'S. mortal's. Hebrew. _enosh._ App-14....
"Hands hanging down" and "hearts melting" are frequent images of despair (ch. Isaiah 19:1; Ezekiel 21:7; Job 4:3; Joshua 7:5, &c.)....
THEREFORE, &C.— What other effect could the premonition concerning the approach of such formidable enemies produce, than consternation and dismay? So the prophet informs us, eloquently describing in t...
III. PEOPLE AND PAGANS - Chapter S 13 - 23 A. IMPLACABLE EMPIRE CH. 13-14 CHAPTER THIRTEEN 1. BABYLON a. PREDICTION OF JUDGMENT TEXT: Isaiah 13:1-8 1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son...
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: THEREFORE SHALL ALL HANDS BE FAINT, AND EVERY MAN'S HEART SHALL MELT. So : cf. . Babylon was taken by surprise on the night of...
13:7 man (l-11) Here _ Enosh_ . as Genesis 4:26 ; Job 4:17 ....
1. BURDEN] The corresponding verb means 'to lift up' (_a_) a load, (_b_) the voice (cp. Isaiah 3:7; Isaiah 42:2; Isaiah 42:11), used of Balaam lifting up his voice in oracular utterance ...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 13 The next major division of the Book of Isaiah is Chapter s 13 to...
SHALL ALL HANDS BE FAINT. — Better, _be slack,_ hanging down in the helpless despondency of the terror which the next clause paints (Hebrews 12:12). (7) THEY SHALL BE IN PAIN AS A WOMAN THAT TRAVAILET...
עַל ־כֵּ֖ן כָּל ־יָדַ֣יִם תִּרְפֶּ֑ינָה וְ כָ
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...
We now commence the second circle of the first division of our book, in which are contained Isaiah's prophecies concerning the nations and the world. The first describes the doom of Babylon. Whereas t...
In the figurative language of prophecy, the Lord describes the destruction of Babylon. The army that shall come against Babylon, the Lord calls his sanctified ones, and his mighty ones. By sanctified,...
7._Therefore all hands shall be weakened. _He shows that the power of the Lord to destroy the inhabitants of Babylon will be so great, that they shall have no means of withstanding his anger. Though t...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14. With chapter 12 one division of the whole book closes. That which commences with chapter 13 continues to the end of chapter 27, which describes th...
THEREFORE SHALL ALL HANDS BE FAINT,.... Or hang down; that is, the hands of all the Babylonians, the city being taken suddenly and at once, so that they should not be able to lift them up to lay hold...
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: Ver. 7. _Therefore shall all hands be faint._] Base fear, that cowardly passion, shall betray them to the enemy, by expectorating...
_Howl ye_ We have here a very elegant and lively description of the terrible confusion and desolation which should be made in Babylon by the attack which the Medes and Persians should make upon it. Th...
GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE PROPHECIES OF WRATH...
Therefore shall all hands be faint, hanging down limp and without strength, AND EVERY MAN'S HEART SHALL MELT, like water, said of an utter lack of courage, of complete hopelessness;...
BE FAINT: Or, fall down...
6-18 We have here the terrible desolation of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. Those who in the day of their peace were proud, and haughty, and terrible, are quite dispirited when trouble comes. The...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Isaiah 13:7 hands H3027 limp H7503 (H8799) mans H582 heart H3824 melt H4549 (H8735) shall all -...
THE APOCALYPTIC DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON (ISAIAH 13:6). The forces having been gathered by Yahweh on the remoteness of the bare mountain, they are to be unleashed in ‘the Day of Yahweh', and it will se...
CONTENTS: Prophecy concerning last days, when punishment will be visited upon the nations, and Israel shall pass through the Great Tribulation. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Men have their da...
In the thirteen Chapter s which follow, the prophet, like a watchman, raises his voice, and denounces woes against all the surrounding nations, and finally against his own country. Isaiah 13:1. _The b...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 13:1 God’s Judgment and Grace for the World: “We Have a Strong City.” Isaiah stresses God’s complete power over all the nations. God rules history to achieve his goals....
EXPOSITION THE BURDEN OF BABYLON. The series of prophecies which commences with this chapter and continues to the close of Isaiah 23:1; is connected together by the word _massa_, burden. It has been a...
Now as we move into chapter 13 and he speaks of the burden of Babylon which Isaiah saw, you remember that we mentioned when we started the prophecy of Isaiah that in many of the prophecies, there was...
Exodus 15:15; Ezekiel 21:7; Ezekiel 7:17; Isaiah 10:3; Isaiah 10:4;...