Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 19:14
Mingled — Or, hath poured out or given them to drink. To err — In all their designs and undertakings. Staggereth — When he is so drunk, that he reels to and fro, and vomits up his drink.
Mingled — Or, hath poured out or given them to drink. To err — In all their designs and undertakings. Staggereth — When he is so drunk, that he reels to and fro, and vomits up his drink.
Verse Isaiah 19:14. _IN THE MIDST THEREOF_] בקרבם _bekirbam_; so the _Septuagint_, and perhaps more correctly." - _Secker_. So likewise the _Chaldee_....
THE LORD HATH MINGLED - The word מסך _mâsak_, “to mingle,” is used commonly to denote the act of mixing spices with wine to make it more intoxicating Proverbs 9:2, Proverbs 9:5;...
CHAPTER 19 The Burden of Egypt 1. _The judgment announced (Isaiah 19:1)_ 2. _Egypt blest with Israel in the last days (Isaiah 19:16) _ Egypt has passed through many judgments. Hundreds of years after...
ISAIAH 19. ORACLE ON EGYPT. This is one of the most difficult Chapter s in the book. It falls into two sections, Isaiah 19:1 and Isaiah 19:18. If Isaiah 19:1 is in the main from Isaiah, it probably re...
STAGGERETH. goeth astray, as in preceding clause....
The stultification of Pharaoh's advisers....
Their intellectual confusion is caused by "a spirit" from Jehovah (but not personified as in 1 Kings 22:21 f.) _a perverse spirit_ Better A SPIRIT OF PERVERSENESS (R.V.). Cf. "spirit of deep slumber,...
SURELY THE PRINCES OF ZOAN ARE FOOLS, &C.— _Surely the princes of Zoan are fools; the very wisest of Pharaoh's counsellors: counsel is become brutish. How will you boast unto Pharaoh, I am the son of...
CHAPTER NINETEEN 2. EGYPT TEXT: Isaiah 19:1-15 1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah rideth upon a swift cloud, and cometh unto Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his presence; and the...
The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit. THE LORD HATH MINGLED A PERVERSE SPI...
THE JUDGMENT, ON EGYPT A prophecy concerning Egypt, probably belonging to the same period as Isaiah 18, and designed to show the speedy collapse of Egypt's power, on which a strong political party in...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 19 GOD WILL PUNISH EGYPT V1 God gave this special message to Isaiah...
How foolish then for God’s people even to imagine that Egypt could help them against an enemy....
יְהוָ֛ה מָסַ֥ךְ בְּ קִרְבָּ֖הּ ר֣וּחַ עִוְעִ֑ים...
These two Chapter s (19, 20) contain the burden of Egypt. Its doom is first declared (19: 1-15). Jehovah's advent will result in the destruction of idols, in civil war, in failure in counsel, and in t...
The LORD hath mingled a (n) perverse spirit in the midst of it: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work of it, as a drunken [man] staggereth in his vomit. (n) For the spirit of wisdom he has...
In these verses the subject of lamentation is carried on, under various descriptions, and all corresponding to denote the burden of Egypt. Their senators and wise men became unable to guide the helm o...
14._The Lord hath mingled a spirit of perverseness. _Because it was a thing unexpected and incredible that the leaders of a sagacious and prudent nation would destroy the country by their stupidity, t...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. In Chapter s 19 and 20 Egypt shall be smitten in that day; but Jehovah will heal it. Egypt, Assyria, and Israel shall together be blessed of Je...
THE LORD HATH MINGLED A PERVERSE SPIRIT IN THE MIDST THEREOF,.... A spirit of error, as the Targum, Septuagint, and Arabic versions; or of giddiness, as the Vulgate Latin: this he mingled in a cup for...
The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken [man] staggereth in his vomit. Ver. 14. _The Lord hath mingled a pe...
_Surely the princes of Zoan are fools_, &c. Zoan was the chief city, in which the king and court frequently resided. In these verses the prophet describes “the immediate causes of these evils; 1st, Th...
A THREAT OF DESTRUCTION...
The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof, for the false wisdom of the leading castes acted like a spirit of intoxication; AND THEY HAVE CAUSED EGYPT TO ERR IN EVERY WORK THEREOF, A...
A PERVERSE SPIRIT: _ Heb._ a spirit of perversities...
1-17 God shall come into Egypt with his judgments. He will raise up the causes of their destruction from among themselves. When ungodly men escape danger, they are apt to think themselves secure; but...
HATH MINGLED; or, _hath poured out_ or _given them to drink_ as appears from their drunkenness, expressed in the end of the verse; which also suits with the Scripture phrase whereby a _cup_ signifies...
Isaiah 19:14 LORD H3068 mingled H4537 (H8804) perverse H5773 spirit H7307 midst H7130 Egypt H4714 err H8582 ...
‘Yahweh has mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her, and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every one of her works, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit. Nor will there be for Egypt...
CONTENTS: Burden of Egypt, looking forward, through desolations, to Kingdom blessing with Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The barbarous usage which the enemies of God have given His people, eve...
Isaiah 19:4. _A cruel lord._ Such was Nebuchadnezzar; and after him, Cambyses, and other Persian kings. One oppression succeeded another, as illustrated in Daniel 11. Isaiah 19:11. _The princes of Zoa...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 19:1 THE BURDEN OF EGYPT. It has been doubted whether this prophecy refers to the conquest of Egypt by Piankhi, as related in the monument which he set up at Napata, or to that by E...
Now he turns to Egypt. The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall...
1 Kings 22:20; 2 Thessalonians 2:11; Ezekiel 14:7; Isaiah 19:2;...