Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 14:4
Golden city — As they used to call themselves; which therefore he expresses here in a word of their own language.
Golden city — As they used to call themselves; which therefore he expresses here in a word of their own language.
Verse Isaiah 14:4. _THIS PROVERB_ - "This parable"] משל _mashal_, I take this to be the general name for poetic style among the Hebrews, including every sort of it, as ranging under one or other, or...
THAT THOU SHALT TAKE UP - Thou shalt utter, declare, or commence. The word ‘take up,’ is used in the sense of utter, speak, or declare, in Exodus 20:7; Exodus 23:1; Psalms 15:2....
CHAPTER 14 Israel's Restoration and Blessing After Babylon is Fallen and the Burden of Philistia 1. _Israel's restoration and exaltation (Isaiah 14:1)_ 2. _The proverb against the king of Babylon (Is...
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...
TAKE UP THIS PROVERB. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 23:7; Numbers 23:24; Numbers 24:3; Numbers 24:15;...
_this proverb_ The Hebrew word (_mâshâl_) is used in a variety of senses. Originally signifying a similitude, it came naturally to denote a popular proverb or gnomic saying, and finally acquired the s...
_b_ 8. The first strophe is like a sigh of relief breathed by the whole of creation, when the disturber of its peace has vanished from the scene....
_b_ 21. The song of triumph over the king of Babylon is one of the finest specimens of Hebrew poetry which the Old Testament contains. A division into five strophes, each containing seven long lines,...
THOU SHALT TAKE UP THIS PROVERB— The latter member of this discourse is employed in a figurative enarration of the fall of the kings of Babylon, Isaiah 14:4 and of Babylon itself, Isaiah 14:22. The pr...
CHAPTER FOURTEEN 2. BABYLON (Continued) a. DESPISED TEXT: Isaiah 14:1-11 1 For Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land; and the sojourner...
That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! -A CHORUS OF JEWS EXPRESS THEIR JOYFUL SURPRISE AT BABYLON'S DOWNFA...
1. STRANGERS] The thought of the voluntary adhesion of strangers is prominent in the later Chapter s of the book (Isaiah 44:5; Isaiah 55:5; Isaiah 60:5)....
PROVERB] RV 'parable' (Habakkuk 2:6), or 'taunting-song.' THE KING] Nabonidus was king of Babylon from 555 till its fall 549 b.c. GOLDEN CITY] rather, RM, 'exactress,' or 'raging one.'...
THE JUDGMENT OF BABYLON AND ITS KING This is the first of a series of prophecies dealing mainly with foreign nations. Its subject is Babylon, where the Jews are represented as undergoing exile, from w...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 14 THE *LORD’S PEOPLE WILL COME HOME V1 The *Lord will pity the peo...
THAT THOU SHALT TAKE UP THIS PROVERB AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON. — The prophet appears once more (comp. Isaiah 5:1; Isaiah 12:1) in his character as a psalmist. In the _mashal_ or _taunting-song_ tha...
וְ נָשָׂ֜אתָ הַ מָּשָׁ֥ל הַ זֶּ֛ה עַל
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...
CHAPTER XXVII BABYLON AND LUCIFER DATE UNCERTAIN Isaiah 13:1; Isaiah 14:1 THIS double oracle is against the City Isaiah 13:2; I
Anticipating the great day of restoration, the prophet puts into the mouth of Israel the great parable or song which celebrates the downfall of Assyria. This moves in five distinct strophes. In the fi...
_Parable. Septuagint, Greek: threnon. "Lamentation." (Haydock) --- Or mournful canticle._...
I do not interrupt the reading through this long chain of the most wonderful events, because it forms one grand whole. The destruction which will ultimately fall upon the enemies of God and of his Chr...
4._Then thou shalt take up this saying. _(213) By the term _witty saying_, or _parable_, (for the Hebrew word משל (_mashal_) denotes “sayings that are weighty and remarkable, and worthy of being obser...
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...
THAT THOU SHALL TAKE UP THIS PROVERB AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON,.... Or "concerning" him, his fall, and the fall of the Babylonish monarchy with him; if we understand this of any particular king of B...
That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! Ver. 4. _That thou shalt take up this proverb._] Or, Taunting speech;...
_And in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow_ From thy grief, fear, and the hard bondage of former times; _wherein thou wast made to serve_ According to the pleasure of thy cruel...
that thou shalt take up this proverb, a song of triumph, AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON AND SAY, HOW HATH THE OPPRESSOR CEASED! THE GOLDEN CITY CEASED! literally, "Ended is the driving despot, ended the...
THE DELIVERANCE OF ISRAEL...
PROVERB: Or, Taunting speech GOLDEN CITY CEASED?: Or, exactresse of gold...
1-23 The whole plan of Divine Providence is arranged with a view to the good of the people of God. A settlement in the land of promise is of God's mercy. Let the church receive those whom God receive...
SHALT TAKE UP into thy mouth, as it is fully expressed, PSALMS 50:16. HOW HATH THE OPPRESSOR CEASED! this is spoken by way of astonishment and triumph. Who would have thought this possible? THE GOLDEN...
Isaiah 14:4 up H5375 (H8804) proverb H4912 king H4428 Babylon H894 say H559 (H8804) oppressor H5065 ...
THE DEMISE OF BABYLON AND HUMILIATION OF ITS BOASTFUL KINGS (ISAIAH 14:3). The coming of the Babylonian ambassadors to Hezekiah had had a profound influence on Isaiah. As he thought on the future, wit...
Isaiah 14:1. _For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jaco...
CONTENTS: Christ's Kingdom set up on earth with Israel restored, the Beast of hell. Satan's fall and doom. Babylon's final judgment. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: It is the comfort of God's people tha...
Isaiah 14:1. _And set them in their own land._ This prediction is so correct, as appears from the books of Nehemiah and Ezra, that no man can doubt the truth of prophecy; and its literal accomplishmen...
_Thou shalt take up this proverb against the King of Babylon_ THE “PROVERB AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON” Lowth is generally thought not to speak with exaggeration when he calls it the finest [song] o...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 14:4 THE KING OF BABYLON. The royal figure, personifying Babylonian arrogance, is taunted by his victims, not immortalized through the praises of his admirers....
THE JOY OF SALVATION Isaiah 14:3. _And it shall come to pass in the day, &c._ In these verses is described the feeling of relief and joy of Israel in view of release from the Babylonish captivity. So...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 14:1 THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL, AND HER SONG OF TRIUMPH OVER BABYLON. The destruction of Babylon is to be followed by the restoration of Israel, with the good w
For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob (Isaiah 14:1...
2 Chronicles 36:18; Daniel 2:38; Daniel 7:19; Ezekiel 5:15; Ha