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Verse Isaiah 10:4. _WITHOUT ME_] That is, without my aid: they shall
be taken captive even by the captives, and shall be subdued even by
the vanquished. "The י _yod_ in בלתי _bilti_ is a pronoun, as i...
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WITHOUT ME - בלתי _biltı̂y_. There has been a great variety of
interpretation affixed to this expression. The sense in which our
translators understood it was, evidently, that they should be forsaken...
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CHAPTER 10
The Assyrian, His invasion of Immanuel's land, and His end
1. _The first four verses belong to the preceding chapter. A
description of the Assyrian enemy (Isaiah 10:5)_ 2. _The overthrow o...
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ISAIAH 9:8 TO ISAIAH 10:4. YAHWEH SMITES EPHRAIM WITH STROKE AFTER
STROKE. It is generally agreed that Isaiah 5:26 formed the closing
strophe of this poem (p. 440). The date is probably before the
coa...
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BOW DOWN UNDER THE PRISONERS. captives will be enough to make you bow
down.
FALL UNDER THE SLAIN. mortally wounded ones [will be enough] to make
you fall.
FOR, &C. See note on Isaiah 9:12....
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Fourth strophe. Most critics consider that at this point the scene
changes from Samaria to Jerusalem; (1) because the internal condition
of Ephraim has already been depicted in the last stages of diss...
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Isaiah 9:8 to Isaiah 10:4 (+ Isaiah 5:25-30)
Jehovah's hand stretched out in wrath over His people. An oracle
against North Israel
The key-note of the prophecy is given in the recurrent refrain...
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_Without me … slain_ This clause is very difficult. The easiest
explanation perhaps is to take it as the answer to the questions of
Isaiah 10:3: ( THEY CAN DO NOTHING) EXCEPT CROUCH UNDER THE CAPTIVES...
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WOE UNTO THEM THAT DECREE UNRIGHTEOUS DECREES, &C.— We have in the
two first verses the fourth fault, and in the third and fourth the
punishment. The fault complained of is, the injustice and the iniq...
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CHAPTER TEN
D. PRESERVATION IN IMMANUEL
1.
SOCIAL INJUSTICE
TEXT: Isaiah 10:1-4
1
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that
write perverseness;
2
to turn aside the n...
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Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall
fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but
his hand is stretched out still.
WITHOUT ME - Not having me...
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DIVINE JUDGMENTS ON THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL
This section relates throughout to the kingdom of Israel. It belongs
to the same period as the Chapter s immediately preceding, and treats
of the ruin which I...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 10
GOD’S JUDGEMENT AGAINST EVIL LAWS
V1 *Woe to those who make crue...
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‘He lifts his hand’: see my note on 9:12.
THE KING OF ASSYRIA IS GOD’S TOOL
V5 *Woe to the *Assyrians! Their own terrible punishment will be
coming. But just for now, they are like a heavy stick. F...
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WITHOUT ME THEY SHALL BOW DOWN... — The Hebrew text is obscure, but
these words were probably intended as the answer to the taunting
question that had preceded them. Dropping the direct address, and
p...
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בִּלְתִּ֤י כָרַע֙ תַּ֣חַת אַסִּ֔יר וְ
תַ֥חַת...
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CHAPTER VII
THE MESSIAH
WE have now reached that point of Isaiah's prophesying at which the
Messiah becomes the most conspicuous figure on his horizon. Let us
take advantage of it to gather into one...
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SOCIAL INJUSTICE CONDEMNED
Isaiah 9:18-21; Isaiah 10:1-4
The terrible indictment of the preceding paragraphs is continued here.
Notice the awful monotony of the refrain, Isaiah 9:12; Isaiah 9:17;
Is...
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Here we have the message of hope (verses Isa 9:1-7) in the glorious
picture of the Coming Deliverer, with the equally glorious record of
the results of His Coming. It is one of the greatest Messianic...
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(d) Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall
fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but
his hand [is] stretched out still.
(d) Because they have fo...
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Amidst general sins, with which both the people of God, and the
oppressors of the Lord's people, are said to abound, the Prophet is
pointing to some special instances of the kind, which marked the
hig...
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4._If they shall not fall down. _As the meaning of the particle
בלתי (_bilti_) is ambiguous, various interpretations of it have
been given by commentators. Some take it in an exclusive sense, as in
ma...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9:8-21, 10, 11, AND 12.
In Isaiah 9:8 the Spirit, having given the great leading facts as to
Messiah, Immanuel, resumes the general history of Israel without...
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WITHOUT ME THEY SHALL BOW DOWN UNDER THE PRISONERS, AND THEY SHALL
FALL UNDER THE SLAIN,.... That is, either, being forsaken by me, and
destitute of my help, they shall bow down; or, "because they are...
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Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall
fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but
his hand [is] stretched out still.
Ver. 4. _Without me they sha...
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_What will ye do_ To save yourselves? _in the day of visitation?_ When
I shall come to visit you in wrath, as the next words limit the
expression. _The desolation which shall come from far_ From the
A...
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Without Me, rather, Nothing remains BUT THAT THEY SHALL BOW DOWN UNDER
THE PRISONERS, their lot being even worse than that of other captives,
AND THEY SHALL FALL UNDER THE SLAIN, trodden under foot by...
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WOE UPON TYRANTS...
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1-4 These verses are to be joined with the foregoing chapter. Woe to
the superior powers that devise and decree unrighteous decrees! And
woe to the inferior officers that draw them up, and enter them...
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WITHOUT ME THEY SHALL BOW DOWN: the words thus translated seem to
contain an answer to the foregoing questions: In vain do you seek for
a refuge and help from others; for without me, without my favour...
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Isaiah 10:4 shall H1115 down H3766 (H8804) prisoners H616 fall H5307
(H8799) slain H2026 (H8803) anger...
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CHAPTER ISAIAH 10:1 THE FOURTH CHASTISEMENT. BAD LEADERSHIP, RANK
INJUSTICE, AND CAPTIVITY (ISAIAH 10:1).
Analysis.
· Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who
write troubl...
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CONTENTS: The commission to invade Judah and its execution.
Threatening of the invaders ruin after serving God's purpose. New
encouragement given to God's people.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: God som...
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The first four verses, are properly a part of the preseding chapter,
and contain a severe reproof of the magistrates who wrested the
judgment of the poor and needy.
Isaiah 10:5. _Oh Assyrian._ Hebrews...
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_Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees_
CRIME UNDER COLOUR OF LAW
The prophet has described the sins of Ephraim in a general manner; but
on the mention of Judah he proceeds to denounce what...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 10:1 Corrupt WEALTH leads to helplessness.
⇐ ⇔...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 10:4 FALL AMONG THE SLAIN. In his writings,
the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III boasted of stacking the corpses of
his defeated enemies and heaping up piles of their skulls (see...
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LEGALISED INJUSTICE
Isaiah 10:1. _Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, &c._
I. An indictment against wicked magistrates. II. A challenge. III. A
sentence.
I. Magistrates and rulers are answ...
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EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 10:1
The prophecy begun in Isaiah 9:8 terminates with this stanza, which
contains a warning against injustice and oppression, addressed to
Israel and Judah equally, and accompanied...
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Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write
grievousness which they have prescribed; To turn aside the needy from
judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, tha...
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Deuteronomy 31:15; Deuteronomy 32:30; Hosea 9:12; Isaiah 5:25;...
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Without me — Without my favour and help, which you have forfeited.
Shall bow down — Notwithstanding all your succours....