People used high places, for example the tops of mountains, to send important news quickly and over vast distances. But in this verse ‘sign’ and ‘alarm’ give a picture in words. The meaning is ‘a clear message that everybody can understand’.
Verse Isaiah 18:3. _WHEN HE LIFTETH UP AN ENSIGN_ - "When the standard is lifted up"] I take God to be the Agent in this verse; and that by the standard and the trumpet are meant the meteors, the thu...
ALL YE INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD - These are to be regarded as the words of the prophet summoning all nations to attend to that which was about to occur. Grotius, however, and some others, suppose that...
CHAPTER 18 When Israel Will be Brought Back 1. _The land beyond the rivers of Ethiopia (Isaiah 18:1)_ 2. _The ambassadors sent (Isaiah 18:2)_ 3. _The trumpet blown and Jehovah's Message (Isaiah 18:3)...
ISAIAH 18. ISAIAH DISCOURAGES THE SCHEMES OF ETHIOPIA. This chapter is probably connected with the policy of the Egyptian alliance so frequently denounced by Isaiah in 29- 31. Here the negotiations se...
HE =. Jehovah. See Structure, above....
The charge to the Ethiopian envoys, along with a poetic description of the land and people. The tendency of the ancient world to idealise the Ethiopians is familiar to students of classical literature...
This verse gives the message which the ambassadors are to carry home to their countrymen, although it concerns all the world as much as the Ethiopians. Render: WHEN A SIGNAL IS LIFTED UP … WHEN A TRU...
ALL YE INHABITANTS— We have here the declaration made to the other people of the world to expect the fall of the Assyrian. God invites all the people of the earth to this sight; that as soon as they s...
C. INCESSANT EGYPTIANS - Chapter S 18-20 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 1. ETHIOPIA TEXT: Isaiah 18:1-7 1 Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; 2 that sendeth ambassado...
All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. ALL YE INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD ... SEE Y...
ETHIOPIA REASSURED Isaiah here addresses the Ethiopians, who, agitated at the advance of the Assyrians west-ward, were sending ambassadors to other states to organise resistance. He foretells the sudd...
כָּל ־יֹשְׁבֵ֥י תֵבֵ֖ל וְ שֹׁ֣כְנֵי אָ֑רֶץ כּ
CHAPTER XVII ISAIAH TO THE FOREIGN NATIONS 736-702 B.C. Isaiah 14:24; Isaiah 15:1; Isaiah 16:1; Isaiah 17:1;...
This is the second of the prophet's soliloquies, and is of the nature of a proclamation to certain ambassadors who are charged to return to their people and to wait for Jehovah. This charge is deliver...
All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when (f) he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. (f) When the Lord prepared to fight agai...
Here the Lord soundeth an alarm to, all the enemies of his Church; and they are admonished to attend to the sound of the trumpet, that then the Lord goeth forth for the salvation of his people, even f...
3._All ye inhabitants of the world. _He shews that this work of God will be so manifestly excellent as to draw the attention not only of the Jews but of all nations. _When he shall lift up an ensign o...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 15, 16, 17, AND 18. In Chapter s 15 and 16 Moab is judged. They are warned that the throne of David shall be established, and the oppressor consumed out of th...
ALL YE INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD, AND DWELLERS ON THE EARTH,.... All the men of the world are here called upon, either by the Lord, or rather by the prophet, to be eye and ear witnesses of the judgment...
All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. Ver. 3. _All the inhabitants of the world, s...
_All ye inhabitants of the world, &c,, see ye_ Take notice of what I say, and what God will do: Or, _Ye shall see._ “We have here the declaration made to the other people of the world, to expect the f...
All ye inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth, see ye, always on the lookout for important happenings, WHEN HE LIFTETH UP AN ENSIGN ON THE MOUNTAINS, really, with an impersonal subject, wh...
PROPHECY AGAINST ETHIOPIA....
SEE YE; take notice of what I say and God will do. Or, _ye shall see it_; you shall be eye-witnesses of this dreadful woe or judgment which I am bringing upon the people of whom I have spoken: The pro...
Isaiah 18:3 inhabitants H3427 (H8802) world H8398 dwellers H7931 (H8802) earth H776 up H5375 (H8800) banner...
ANALYSIS OF ISAIAH 18:1. a Ah, the land of the whirring of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Cush, which sends messengers by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters. “Go you swift messen...
CONTENTS: Woe of the land beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, in the day of Israel's regathering. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Though God's covenant people are trampled on as a nation, scattered and abus...
Isaiah 18:1. _Woe to the land shadowing with wings_ranges of inaccessible mountains called the mountains of the moon, and those to the east between the Nile and the Red sea. The Nile divided amidst th...
_All ye inhabitants of the world. .. see ye_ MISSIONARY EXERTION Our whole hope of success rests on the prophecies of the Word of God, declaring it to be His will. We must first accurately examine...
_Woe to the land shadowing with wings_ THE ETHIOPIANS The people here peculiarly described are the Ethiopians, and the prophet prophesies the effect on Ethiopia of the judgment concerning Assyria wh...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 18:3 Isaiah calls the whole WORLD to redirect its attention to the unmistakable signs of God’s activity in history. ⇐...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 18:1 THE HOMAGE OF ETHIOPIA TO JEHOVAH. Amid the general excitement caused by the advance of Assyria, Ethiopia also is stirred, and stirred to its furthest limits. The king sends me...
Now in chapter 18, there are those that see the United States in chapter 18, but it is rather far-fetched and I am sorry that my mind can't stretch that far. I cannot see the United States in chapter...
Amos 3:6; Isaiah 1:2; Isaiah 13:2; Isaiah 13:4; Isaiah 26:11;...
When — When God shall gather together the nations, as it were by the lifting up of an ensign, or by the sound of a trumpet, to execute his judgments upon this people....