Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 8:22
Earth — Finding no help from heaven, they turn their eyes downward, looking hither and thither for comfort.
Earth — Finding no help from heaven, they turn their eyes downward, looking hither and thither for comfort.
AND THEY SHALL LOOK UNTO THE EARTH - They would look upward and find no relief, and then in despair cast their eyes to the earth to obtain help there. Yet equally in vain. The whole image is one of in...
CHAPTER 8 Jehovah's Word Through Isaiah and the Assyrian Announced 1. _The divine instruction and Maher-shalal-hash-baz (Isaiah 8:1)_ 2. _The Assyrian to come (Isaiah 8:5)_ 3. _The answer of faith (I...
ISAIAH 8:19 TO ISAIAH 9:1. SOME FRAGMENTARY UTTERANCES. These fragments are of uncertain date and authorship, corrupt in text and obscure in sense. The first, Isaiah 8:19 f., is a warning against necr...
THE EARTH. the land. DIMNESS OF ANGUISH. the gloom of anguish. DRIVEN TO. thrust out into....
Another scene, representing the utter desolation of the land, and the miseries of the survivors....
The last words of the previous verse should be taken along with this one: AND HE SHALL LOOK UPWARD AND SHALL LOOK TO THE EARTH: AND BEHOLD, &c. Whether he look to heaven or earth, no ray of hope shall...
AND THEY SHALL PASS THROUGH IT— The attentive reader must observe, that the 21st verse is connected with the last clause of the preceding one; _no light, no morning to them._ The prophet had here deno...
THE PEDAGOGY Isaiah 8:16-22 TEXT: Isaiah 8:16-22 16 Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. 17 And I will wait for Jehovah, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and...
And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward....
DIMNESS, etc.] RV 'gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness they shall be driven away.' Note the close connexion with Isaiah 9, where a brighter future is predicted....
1. TAKE, etc.] read 'Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it with the pen of a man, Maher-shalal-hash-baz.' A MAN'S PEN] i.e. such as a common man would use for writing in large characters that al...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 8 ISAIAH’S SON WILL BE A SIGN TO THE PEOPLE V1 The *Lord sen...
Ahaz failed the test. So now his people are prisoners of a powerful enemy in a foreign country. Because they have left God out of their situation, their future is completely without hope. It is as if...
וְ אֶל ־אֶ֖רֶץ יַבִּ֑יט וְ הִנֵּ֨ה צָרָ֤ה
CHAPTER VI KING AND MESSIAH; PEOPLE AND CHURCH 735-732 B.C. Isaiah 7:8, 9:Isaiah 7:1 THIS section of the book of Isaiah (Chapter s 7-9:7) consists of a number of separate prophecies uttered during...
THE PRINCE OF PEACE Isaiah 8:19-22; Isaiah 9:1-7 When men cease to trust in God and rely on the help of man, they often turn to necromancy and spirit-rapping. The medium takes the place of the Mediat...
In this section we have the account of how the prophet turns from his more public ministry to devote himself to a small circle of believing souls. This departure was signalized by his writing on a tab...
And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and (c) darkness, dimness of anguish; and [they shall be] driven to darkness. (c) They will think that heaven and earth and all creatures are bent...
REFLECTIONS How truly blessed and profitable it is to watch the Lord's care over his people! Though in times of general wickedness, the Lord visits a nation and a kingdom; yet will he take care of his...
I do not think it needful to detain the Reader with long observations on this part of the chapter. The advice here given is to the same amount as the former; the Lord utterly condemns all seeking, but...
22._And when they shall look to the earth. _The meaning will then be, that the Jews will be converted to God, because they will be deprived of every assistance on _the earth_, and will see nothing but...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9:1-7. But this requires further development; and it is given in a remarkable manner in the next prophecy, comprised in Chapter s 7, 8, 9 to the end...
AND THEY SHALL LOOK UNTO THE EARTH,.... As persons in distress, upwards and downwards, backwards and forwards, on the right hand and on the left, particularly into the land of Judea; a land that used...
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and [they shall be] driven to darkness. Ver. 22. _Trouble and darkness, &c._] A huge heap of words all to one...
_And they_ The idolatrous and apostate Israelites; _shall pass through it_ Namely, their own land, into captivity; or, as עבר בה may be rendered, _shall pass to and fro_, or _wander hither and thither...
WARNING AGAINST FALSE TESTIMONY...
And they shall look unto the earth, seeking alleviation and deliverance from their affliction, AND BEHOLD TROUBLE AND DARKNESS, DIMNESS OF ANGUISH, not one ray of relief and salvation penetrating the...
17-22 The prophet foresaw that the Lord would hide his face; but he would look for his return in favour to them again. Though not miraculous signs, the children's names were memorials from God, suite...
THEY SHALL LOOK UNTO THE EARTH; finding no help from heaven, they turn their eyes downward, looking hither and thither for comfort. TROUBLE AND DARKNESS. &c.; many words expressing the same thing are...
Isaiah 8:22 look H5027 (H8686) earth H776 trouble H6869 darkness H2825 gloom H4588 anguish H6695 driven H5080 ...
CONTENTS: Predictions of the Syrian invasion and of the desolations of Judah and Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Israel, Uriah, Zechariah, Maher, Shalal-hash-baz, Rezin, sons of Remaliah. CONCLUSION: If a n...
Isaiah 8:1. _Take thee a great roll._ Lowth reads, a large mirror. The Chaldaic has _scripturam claram,_ a fair writing, which might be on a polished plate; but the Versions read as the English. Isaia...
_And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry_ UNSANCTIFIED SUFFERING I. SIN LEADS TO SUFFERING. II. THERE IS IN SUFFERING NO SANCTIFYING POWER. It may harden men in iniquity. III. SUF...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 8:16 The difference between the remnant (vv. Isaiah 8:16) and the hardened nation (vv. Isaiah 8:19)
NECROMANCY Isaiah 8:19. _Seek unto them, &c._ As bearing upon the doctrine of necromancy, an exhaustive discussion of these verses would involve the following points: 1. Under the instigation of a p...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 8:1 THE SIGN OF MAHER-SHALAL-HASH-BAZ. The sign of Immanuel was recondite. In its more spiritual sense it appealed to faith in an event far distant. Even in its literal import, it w...
So in chapter 8 he continues in this prediction of the Assyrian invasion. Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz (Isaia...
2 Chronicles 15:5; 2 Chronicles 15:6; Amos 5:18; Isaiah 5:30; Isai